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Texas Book Festival reveals the first 12 authors for 2017 festival weekend Festival to showcase acclaimed authors Claire Messud, Mark Bittman, and Angie Thomas AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival announced the first twelve authors in the lineup for the 2017 Texas Book Festival Weekend, Fri¬–Sat., Nov. 4–5, including artist, illustrator, and Caldecott Medal honoree…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 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…

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.…

Teen Slam Camp, Dallas, June 12-16 Kate Forsyth Cactus & Kangaroos Readerathon and Writers Intensive, Dallas and Richardson, June 16-17 Inspirational New Writer’s Event, San Antonio, June 17 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…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.18.2017   “Death, Taxes” series set to wrap up this year The eleventh book in Diane Kelly’s engaging “Death, Taxes” series of novels featuring female IRS special agent Tara Holloway is Death, Taxes and Sweet Potato Fries (St. Martin’s, $7.99 paperback). The series will wrap up with one more full-length novel, Death,…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive  A night with Johnny Cash remembered In his engaging book Live from Aggieland: Legendary Performances in the Brazos Valley (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover), author Rob Clark devotes one chapter to the Johnny Cash concert that was cancelled by A&M President Earl…

Texas Book Festival reveals the first 12 authors for 2017 festival weekend Festival to showcase acclaimed authors Claire Messud, Mark Bittman, and Angie Thomas AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival announced the first twelve authors in the lineup for the 2017 Texas Book Festival Weekend, Fri¬–Sat., Nov. 4–5, including artist, illustrator, and Caldecott Medal honoree…

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.…

West Texas Writers’ Academy, Canyon, June 5-9 Sixth Annual Children’s Arts & Literacy Festival, Abilene, June 8-10 Wimberley Book Festival, June 10 Fresh Fiction’s Boas & Tiaras, Dallas, June 10 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,…

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…