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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.11.2017   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 Rudder in 1965 after Cash was arrested…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MEMOIR/TEXAS MUSIC illo stage, from blues to country to rock to punk. I mean, really, name a storied musician and there’s a damn good chance Eddie booked him or her.  >>READ MORE Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive  Son learned from his father’s coaching Just in time for Father’s…

From read-to-me books to early readers, chapter books to middle readers to young adult, you’ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookstore or online. sponsored by Blue Wilow Bookshop About Blue Willow Books: We opened our doors in October 1996 as a neighborhood bookshop with outreach throughout the Houston area. We are located…

Texas Center for the Book seeks applicants for 2017 Literacy Award Austin — The Texas Center for the Book is seeking nonprofit organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in Texas. Qualifying organizations must be nominated by September 1, 2017. The winning organization will receive a $1,000 cash award to assist in its…

Deep Ellum Lit Hop II, Dallas, June 3 McKinney Square Book Festival, McKinney, June 3 Summer Jam, Houston, June 3 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 Texas Writers Exhibition, Fredericksburg, May 1-31 Sunday,…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MEMOIR/TEXAS MUSIC Eddie Wilson, with Jesse Sublett; foreword by Dave Marsh Armadillo World Headquarters 406 pp., 978-1-4773-1382-4, $29.95 cloth TSSI Publishing; distributed by University of Texas Press April 2017 Reviewed by Rod Davis The Incubator of Austin A very good case could be made that the Armadillo World…

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.…

Texas readers have spoken. Nearly 2,500 of Lone Star Literary Life’s readers have cast ballots in 3 rounds of our statewide contest during May 2017 to recognize Texas’s favorite bookstores. Their final selections are as diverse as the state itself, and honorees include big indies, small indies, chain stores, used bookstores, and new bookstores in…

Bush, Khan, Luna present books to students as part of Texas Book Festival’s 2017 Reading Rock Stars Photo by Grant Miller Photography DALLAS — In May 2017, the Texas Book Festival presented its Reading Rock Stars program at Thomas Tolbert Elementary School in Dallas. Students enjoyed presentations and received books by Texas Book Festival cofounder,…

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.…