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Writers’ League Celebrates “Texas Independents” statewide throughout March 2017; final stop, March 31, Brazos Bookstore (Houston) In March 2017 the Writers’ League of Texas will partner with some of the state’s greatest Independents—in conjunction with Texas Independence Day—to host a series of free and open events throughout the month of March in communities across the…

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.…

21st Annual ASU Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, March 23-24 2017 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Awards, March 24 Bayou City Poetry Slam Festival, Houston, March 24-25 Building a Writing Life! A weekend writing retreat led by ire’ne lara silva, Maxwell, March 25-26 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the…

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 3.26.2017   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…

Contributing Editor SPORTS/BASEBALL/AMERICAN HISTORY Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston Iconic Astrodome University of Nebraska Press Hardcover, 978-0-8032-5545-6, 272 pages, $27.95; also available as e-book; 2016 When it opened in April, 1965, Houston’s Astrodome was “the world’s first indoor, air-conditioned, all-weather sports stadium.” But more…

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.…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Robert C. Trumpbour, an associate professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, is the author of The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction. Kenneth Womack, dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences and…

Writefest: A Festival for Emerging Writers, Houston, March 6-12 32nd Annual Tejas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 9–12 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS), Dallas, March 15-18 The Beall Poetry Festival, Waco, March 15-17 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16 The Lost Generation: World War…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.19.2017   Former president finds a new passion in painting Former President George W. Bush’s Portraits of Courage is subtitled “A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors,” and that accurately sums up his impressive new book (Crown, $35 hardcover). In color paintings and personal essays, Bush offers a close-up look at…