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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.2.2017   ‘Sawbones’ is the first of a three-book western series Sawbones (Hachette, $14.99 paperback) by Frisco author Melissa Lenhardt is a western thriller and the first in a three-book series that debuted in April. The second, Blood Oath, hit bookshelves in May, and the third, Badlands, came out at the end…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MEMOIR Ken Mixon Texas Banker / Oklahoma Hunter: (A Mostly True Story) Paperback, 978-0-6927-6098-7, $23.00; September 2016 Ken Mixon claims that he comes from a family of storytellers, and he proves it with this entertaining memoir that is often informative and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. While the book’s intended…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Ken Mixon was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1956. Raised in Atoka, Oklahoma, and graduated from Atoka High School in 1974. Heattended Oklahoma Baptist University and graduated in 1977 with a degree in business administration. In1977, Mixon started his banking career as an auditor…

Above, from left: Liu, Thornton, Brickhouse Writers’ League of Texas to host 24th annual Agents and Editors Conference June 30–July 2 in Austin The 24th Annual Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference will be held June 30 through July 2, 2017, at the Hyatt Regency in Austin. This conference always sells out, and…

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.…

11th Annual African American Book Festival, Austin, June 24 Dallas Author Expo, The Colony, June 24 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 Marcos, February 15–July 1 Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5–August 13 Print…

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 6.25.2017   Texas music is all over the map “No state is more musical than Texas, whose very geography seems to hum,” writes Michael Corcoran in his new edition of All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music (University of North Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover). First issued in 2005, the new…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY / SPORTS Wade Phillips with Vic Carucci Son of Bum: Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life Diversion Books Hardcover, 978-1-68230-808-0, 209 pages, $25.99 May 2017 Reviewed by Carlton Stowers The remarkable journey began with a seven-year-old accompanying his football-coaching father to Nederland High School…