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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.9.2017   Dead Man’s Boot sprang from nonfiction research Midland author Patrick Dearen writes authoritatively about the Pecos River region of West Texas, whether it’s nonfiction or fiction. A couple of years ago he won a Spur Award for his novel The Big Drift. In his thirteenth novel, Dead Man’s Boot (Five…

Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY Carol Dawson with Roger Allen Polson Geoff Appold, Photo Editor Foreword by Willie Nelson Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 8.5 x 11, 978-1-62349-456-8, 368 pages; 147 color, 247 b&w photos, 7 maps; bibliography; index. $39.95 September 2016 Reviewed by…

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Year of firsts: Texas Institute of Letters convention has a new location — and a new focus by Chrisine Granados The year 2017 will be remembered as one of firsts for the Texas non-profit literary honor society, the Texas Institute of Letters. The TIL will host its convention and awards banquet for the first time…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com TEXAS HISTORY Carol Dawson with Roger Allen Polson Geoff Appold, Photo Editor Foreword by Willie Nelson Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 8.5 x 11, 978-1-62349-456-8, 368 pages; 147 color, 247 b&w photos,…

New Visions, New Voices Playwriting Festival, Dallas, March 29-April 2 Fan Expo Dallas, March 31-April 2 Houston Books2Eat – Second Annual Edible Books Festival, March 31 Austin Edible Book Festival, April 1 Lone Star LesFic Festival, Austin, April 1 New Fiction Confab, Austin, April 1 8th Annual Teen Book Con, Houston, April 1 Ongoing Exhibits…

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 4.2.2017   Picture book tells story of rodeo cowgirl Tad Lucas Houston author Laura B. Edge has written a picture book biography, Tad Lucas: Trick Riding Rodeo Cowgirl (Pelican, $16.99), illustrated by Texas artist Stephanie Ford. Lucas (1902–1990), who performed in rodeos and Wild West shows from the 1920s until her retirement…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas Reads: Poet laureate featured in new collection Some books you read and enjoy, then move on to the next one. Others you might like to savor for a while. And then there are a few that you cherish and go back to time and again. Walt McDonald: Selected Poems…