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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive AHall of Fame author publishes his first novel at 86 James Ward Lee is a highly respected Texas author and editor, literary critic, entertaining speaker and storyteller, spinner of folk tales, and member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. And now, at…

First-ever all-day Lubbock Book Festival slated for Sat., Oct. 28 S. C. Gwynne to headline with The Perfect Pass; Hank the Cowdog author John R. Erickson keynoter for children Lubbock enters the book festival arena this fall with the all-day Lubbock Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 28. More than three dozen best-selling authors and regional…

Black & Latino Playwrights Conference, San Marcos, September 4-10 Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 6-9 29th Annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Lubbock, September 8-10 Children’s Book Sale and International Literacy Celebration!, Houston, September 9 Writespace Writers’ Family Reunion, Houston, September 9 Ongoing Exhibits George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4…

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…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.10.2017   Hall of Fame author publishes his first novel at 86 James Ward Lee is a highly respected Texas author and editor, literary critic, entertaining speaker and storyteller, spinner of folk tales, and member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. And now, at the age of eighty-six, he’s a novelist.…

Contributing Editor HISTORY / MUSIC Donna Marie Miller Foreword by Charles R. Townsend The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk Hardcover, 256 pages, 978-1-62349-519-0, $24.95; also available in ebook formats; 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn In the early 1960s, James White was far from Austin and longing to hear country music. He was an American soldier…

First-ever all-day Lubbock Book Festival slated for Sat., Oct. 28 S. C. Gwynne to headline with The Perfect Pass; Hank the Cowdog author John R. Erickson keynoter for children Lubbock enters the book festival arena this fall with the all-day Lubbock Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 28. More than three dozen best-selling authors and regional…

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.…

HISTORY / MUSIC Donna Marie Miller Foreword by Charles R. Townsend The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk Hardcover, 256 pages, 978-1-62349-519-0, $24.95; also available in ebook formats April 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn In the early 1960s, James White was far from Austin and longing to hear country music. He was an American soldier stationed…