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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.30.2017   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 opened on Nov. 10, 1964, at what…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas writer explores how Jonestown tragedy happened How could more than 900 people line up and drink a poisoned punch, knowing they would die? In The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Simon & Schuster, $28 hardcover), Fort Worth author Jeff…

Texas Library Association 2017 Photos by Kristine Hall Cathy Nickell, author of Arthur Zarr’s Amazing Art Car Rickey Pittman, author of Rio Grande Valley ABC Advance reader copies, TLA 2017 Don Winn, author of the Sir Kaye the Boy Knight series Myra Hargrave McIlvain, author of Stein House Kelly Carlisle, author of We Are All…

San Antonio Book Festival 2017 Photos by Michelle Newby Texas Center for the Book Author Jeff Guinn Authors Jeff Guinn, Craig Johnson, Bill Wittliff * * * * * The Tacos of Texas The Tacos of Texas Amy Gentry, author of Good As Gone Poets Jenny Browne, Naomi Shihab Nye, Laurie Ann Guerrero Poets Laurie…

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…

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 Library Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, April 19-22 A Celebration of Reading 2017, Houston, April 20 Forrest Fest, Lamesa, April 20-22 Poetry at Round Top, April 21-23 World of Wonders Gala Celebrating 60 Years of the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, April 22 Inspirational Writers Alive! Spring Writers Mini-Conference, Amarillo, April 22 Permian Basin Authors’…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.23.2017   Texas writer explores how Jonestown tragedy happened How could more than 900 people line up and drink a poisoned punch, knowing they would die? In The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Simon & Schuster, $28 hardcover), Fort Worth author Jeff Guinn takes an in-depth look at the…

Contributing Editor POETRY Wendy Barker and Dave Parsons, editors Far Out: Poems of the ’60s Wings Press, 2016 Paperback, 978-1-609405014, 384 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Leah Lax Back in the sixties, our country’s biggest demographic was just coming of age. I, too, was a baby boomer. We were young but we elected a president, stopped…