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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Henry Chappell serves as a field editor for The Land Report and contributes to numerous regional and national publications. He is the author of several works with photographer Wyman Meinzer, including Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut: The San Antonio Viejo Ranch of Texas…

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.…

10th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 27-30 Dionysia 2017 – The Houston Book of the Dead: How to Live, April 27-30 Houston Writer’s Guild Annual Spring Conference, April 28-30 El día de los niños, El día de los libros, statewide, April 30 The Writer’s Garret “Beyond 21 Celebration,” Dallas, May 5-7…

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 5.7.2017   Author offers answers, advice on Texas life David Courtney writes “The Texanist” column for Texas Monthly magazine, answering questions and dispensing advice on all things Texan. Now he has compiled more than fifty of his most popular pieces into a book, The Texanist: Fine Advice on Living in Texas (University…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Author relates colorful story of Austin club Austin writer Donna Marie Miller tells the colorful story of one of Austin’s most famous eating, drinking and dancing establishments in The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover). The Broken Spoke…

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.…

Poetry at Round Top, April 21-23 National Book Awards Festival, Huntsville, April 24-25 KTX Poetry Slam, Killeen, April 27-28 10th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 27-30 Dionysia 2017 – The Houston Book of the Dead: How to Live, April 27-30 Houston Writer’s Guild Annual Spring Conference, April 28-30 Austin Bookstore Crawl,…

It’s Back! Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore Lone Star Lit’s second annual Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores voting will be held May 1 through May 18, 2017. Readers, vote as often as you wish for your Favorite Texas Bookstore. We’ll announce the Top 40 finalists on May 7; then, the Top 20 finalists on May…

Readers’ Favorite Texas Bookstores, 2017 Vote for your favorite Texas Bookstore during May 2017 Texas booksellers, share this link with your readers and fans — and ask them to vote during May 2017! (There’s also a pdf poster you can place in your own store.) Did you know Texas has nearly 300 indie, chain, and…