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Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…

Erickson, Gwynne, McCay, and more dazzle fans at 2017 Lubbock Book Festival Wenthe named Lubbock’s 2017–18 poet laureate LUBBOCK — Some 500 bookfans of all ages converged on the various venues of the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) and the Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP) Oct. 28 for the city’s first all-day…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.29.2017   Two books celebrate Texas sports every day Two new books offer sports fans a Texas sports story a day chronologically throughout the year. Both books, similar in their approach but offering different stories for most days, came out within weeks of each other. Lone Star Sports Legends: On This Day…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Author looks at black high school football in Texas before integration Historian, journalist, and author Michael Hurd has produced the very readable and authoritative Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas (University of Texas Press, $24.95 hardcover). “This…

Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…

TCU Language & Culture Festival 2017, Fort Worth, October 24-26 National Black Book Festival, Houston, October 26-28 Literary Lubbock 2017, October 27 1st Annual Lubbock Book Festival, October 28 Halloween ComicFest 2017, statewide, October 28 45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28–November 12 Ongoing Exhibits National Center for…

Lubbock Book Festival to feature 36 authors plus lucal luminaries and Lubbock’s next poet laureate, Oct. 28 Hank the Cowdog creator John R. Erickson, “Perfect Pass” author S. C. Gwynne, bestseller Jodi Thomas, news anchor Karin McCay, and celebrity chefs/cookbook authors Adán Medrano and Angelina LaRue to headline event LUBBOCK — It’s probably safe to…

Houston Poetry Fest, October 13-15 Indiepalooza, Houston, October 13-15 9th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Fort Worth, October 20 George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center 20th Anniversary, College Station, October 20-21 Iran in the World Conference, San Antonio, October 20-21 Houston Writers Guild Masquerade Gala Evening, Houston, October 21 Tweens Read, South Houston, October 21 Mid-Cities…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.22.2017   Author looks at black high school football in Texas before integration Historian, journalist, and author Michael Hurd has produced the very readable and authoritative Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas (University of Texas Press, $24.95 hardcover). “This book,” writes Hurd, director of Prairie View…

Author interviews by Kay Ellington 10.15.2017  “You can go anywhere in the world and they know about Texas”: Texas’s romantic faces and places with Panhandle author Linda Broday Linda Broday kept at her dream of publishing the stories that sprang from her Southwestern upbringing — and has been rewarded with success on top bestseller lists.…