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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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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.08.2017 Watt Matthews photo book back in third edition Watt Matthews of Lambshead, a spectacular collection of photos and text by Laura Wilson, has been brought back in an even more spectacular third edition (Texas State Historical Association, $50 hardcover). The first edition was published in 1989, with a second edition…
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Lone Star Reviews: ALL THE WIND IN THE WORLD
With the implosion of the cities, Sarah Jac and James become jimadors migrant workers harvesting maguey (also known as the century plant) on the ranches of the Southwestern United States in the not-too-distant future. An environmental cataclysm has devastated the country west of the Mississippi River. In conditions that put the Dust Bowl of…
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10.1.17 News Briefs
Author Sandra Cisneros wins Lifetime Achievement Award from Texas Institute of Letters Internationally acclaimed author Sandra Cisneros (left) has been named winner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s prestigious Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement. This is the highest honor given by the TIL, which was established in 1936 to recognize and celebrate the state’s…
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Special Events
Banned Books Week, September 24-30 Inkstravaganza Gala honoring Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, San Antonio, September 28 6th Annual LibroFEST, San Antonio, September 30 TEDx Sugarland 2017, September 30 6th Annual Granbury Paranormal Expo, September 30-October 1 Ongoing Exhibits Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, September 1-29 Of Texas Rivers…
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Lone Star Listens: Samantha Mabry, YA Award Nominee and Dallas Native
It’s only appropriate that, while Lone Star Literary Life is coming to you live today from the State Fair of Texas in Dallas’s Fair Park, we bring you a conversation with Dallas author Samantha Mabry, who’s probably ridden the Star of Texas and munched on a Fletcher’s corny dog or two in her time.…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.01.2017 McMurtry novels reissued in new Texas trilogy W. W. Norton Publishing has brought out a new hardback containing the first three novels by Larry McMurtry, going back more than fifty years — Horseman, Pass By (1961), Leaving Cheyenne (1962), and The Last Picture Show (1966). The handsome volume, totaling more…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor HISTORY / CURRENT AFFAIRS Two Texas racing-racket titles finish in the money Review essay by Carlton Stowers Joe Tone Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream One World/Random House Hardcover, 978-0-8129-8960-1 (also available as ebook and audio book); 329 pages, $28.00 August 8, 2017 Melissa del Bosque…
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9.24.17 News Briefs
Eleventh annual Tom Lea Month invites fans of late author/artist to experience the Tom Lea Trail, exhibitions, events EL PASO — This Sunday, October 1, 2017, kicks off the 11th annual Tom Lea Month, recognizing the Texas artist-author’s achievements with exhibitions and events. The Tom Lea Institute and other community organizations will hold exhibits, lectures,…
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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.…