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4.16.17 News Briefs
Texas Institute of Letters 2017 banquet, readings give diverse offering by Chrisine Granados Writer Pat Mora and musician Joe Ely caught the sentiment of the night and drew standing ovations from Texas Institute of Letters members at the 81st Annual Awards Banquet held in El Paso and New Mexico. The men and women of Texas…
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Lone Star Review: WELCOME HOMELESS
‘Notice it doesn’t say, “Feed the hungry, unless you think he might just have the munchies … Or, “Clothe the naked, unless he doth get drunk on Jack Daniel’s.”’ Alan Graham was struck by inspiration in 1998: food trucks. He envisioned a truck to feed Austin’s homeless where they live. Graham recruited five…
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Dearen, Dead Man’s Boot_041617
FICTION / TEXAS Patrick Dearen Dead Man’s Boot Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 978-1-43228333084, 265 pages, $25.95 December 2016 Reviewed by Carlton Stowers Back in what some call the Golden Age of western fiction, readers were generally provided a simple and high-speed plot featuring good battling evil, a damsel in need of saving, and plenty of…
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MAJOR BOOK EVENTS BY MONTH
Use this calendar of recurring events and cultural emphases in Texas and those other states to plan ahead in your bookish life. We’ll add dates for each year as we learn of them. January National Book Month National Book Week (third full week of January) Book Publishers Day (Jan. 16 annually) Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend…
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Lone Star Listensby Barbara Brannon, LSLL Producer
Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Stew Magnuson is a Washington, DC–based journalist and the author of The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder (Texas Tech University Press, 2009), named winner of the Nebraska Book Award for 2009. His latest…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.16.2017 Writer completes U.S. 83 journey in Texas Author Stew Magnuson, who lives in Virginia, said he woke up in the middle of the night in 2009 with a fully formed book idea in his head. He would travel the entire length of U.S. Highway 83 from Canada to Mexico —…
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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews >> archive
Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher 4.9.2017 karla k. morton’s passion for poetry This interview will not do full justice to Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas Poet Laureate — although Lone Star Lit will try. To get the true sense of her verve, her passion, and her evangelism for poetry and words, you owe it to…
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Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor
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.…
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Special Events
Bayou City Book Festival, Houston, April 3-8 34th Annual Richland College Literary Festival, Dallas, April 4-6 25th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 6-9 Texas Institute of Letters annual meeting & awards, El Paso, April 7-8 17th Annual Battle of San Jacinto Symposium, La Porte, April 8 5th Annual San Antonio Book Festival, April 8…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher
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…