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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.…

POLITICS/BIOGRAPHY Janet M. Neugebauer A Witness to History: George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman Texas Tech University Press Hardcover, 978-0-8967-2988-9, $45.00 Reviewed by Si Dunn Weighing in nearly 2.5 pounds and 576 pages, this impressive political biography of U.S. Representative George H. Mahon should be engrossing summer reading for policy wonks and aficionados of twentieth-century…

Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30 The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16 Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5–August 13 Print Houston 2017, June 5–July 3 Illustrator of the…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.9.2017   UNT Press offers wide range of Texas titles The University of North Texas Press, founded thirty years ago, has published more than 300 titles and continues to turn out quality general interest and scholarly books on Texas history and culture, military history, and other topics. The press has an excellent…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor POETRY Donald Mace WIlliams Wolfe and Other Poems Wundor Editions (UK) Paper with flaps, 64 pgs., 978-0995654129, $15.10 + $3.99 shipping via Blackwell’s UK, or purchase locally at Burrowing Owl Books, Canyon, Texas May 2017 Reviewed by Barbara Brannon Seven years ago this week, on a Fourth-of-July camping…

Cortez, Vanishing Points garner prestigious awards The National Federation of Press Women recently awarded First Place for Editing to Houston poet Sarah Cortez for Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials (Texas Review Press, 2016).  The annual NFPW National Communications contest encourages and rewards excellence in communication in a wide range of categories,…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Barbara Brannon, producer of Lone Star Literary Life, studied poetry with James Dickey at the University of South Carolina, where she earned the MA and PhD. Her poems have appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Broad River Review, Cenacle, Kakalak, Light, Measure, the South…

2017 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Convention, Fort Worth, June 29-July 2 Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference, Austin, June 30-July 2 Interabang Books opens, Dallas, July 1 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16 Sandra Cisneros: A House of Her Own Exhibition, San…