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10.15.17 News Briefs
7th annual Dobie Dichos to celebrate works of J. Frank Dobie Nov. 3 Bring a lawn chair, eat a bowl of chili, and listen to top Texas authors and storytellers read from/tell stories from the works of noted folklorist J. Frank Dobie under the stars at the Historic Oakville Jail town square Presented by George…
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Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor
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.…
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Special Events
Friends of the Dallas Public Library gala, October 12 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan/College Station, October 12-14 Lone Star Storytelling Festival 2017, Frisco, October 13-14 Houston Poetry Fest, October 13-15 Indiepalooza, Houston, October 13-15 1st Annual Fort Worth BookFest, October 14 Boerne Book & Arts Fest, October 14 Indie Author Day, Dallas, October 14…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher
Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…
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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.15.2017 Schieffer writes about changing nature of news, politics Distinguished CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, a native Texan for whom the TCU College of Communication is named, provides a thoughtful and timely analysis of journalism and politics in his new book, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News (Rowman &…
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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews >> archive
Author interviews by Kay Ellington 10.8.2017 Ask Baba Yaga author Taisia Kitaiskaia: “Everything has to feel like a surprise” Taisia Kitaiskaia of Austin scores two otherworldly debut titles this fall, in time for Halloween. Drawing from the traditions of Russian folklore and feminist creativity, her works are bound to cast a spell over readers. After…
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ENTER HERE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS
Odessa Council for Arts & Humanities offers drawing for two tickets to “An Evening with David Sedaris” ODESSA — David Sedaris, award-winning author and critic, will appear at the Wagner-Noël Performing Arts Center in Midland Tues., Nov. 7, 2017, at 7 p.m. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s…
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10.8.17 News Briefs
Inaugural Fort Worth BookFest kicks off Sat., Oct. 14 FORT WORTH —The inaugural Fort Worth BookFest will debut on Saturday, Oct. 14, at Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus in Fort Worth. Locally, regionally and nationally known authors and publishers will appear at the free event. A key feature of the festival will be the…
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Lone Star Review: A Good Girl
Fifty-two-year-old Grace Reiter is returning home to South Texas, “a place she spent a lifetime running from,” as her father, Henry, “the last surviving patriarch of a chaotic gene pool,” lies in a hospital bed dying from colon cancer and a heart “shriveled from disease and disappointment.” Grace is the middle child, the dutiful…
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Special Events
6th Annual Granbury Paranormal Expo, September 30-October 1 Waco WordFest, October 6-8 Lone Star Book Festival, Dallas, October 6-8 Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, October 7 Evening With the Authors, Lockhart, October 7 24th Annual North Texas Book & Paper Show, Fort Worth, October 7-8 Ongoing Exhibits National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary…