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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive  Texas artists feature river themes in paintings A noted Texas conservationist and a leading Texas art historian and collector have teamed up with twenty contemporary Texas artists to produce an extraordinary book, Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art (Texas A&M University Press, $35…

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…

Writers’ League Celebrates “Texas Independents” statewide throughout March 2017; next stop, March 16, BookPeople (Austin) 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 state.…

Writers’ League Celebrates “Texas Independents” statewide throughout March 2017; next stop, March 23, Deep Vellum (Dallas) 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…

FESTIBA, Festival of International Books & Arts, Edinburg & Brownsville, February 27-March 5 Odessa Shakespeare Festival, March 3–5 Writefest: A Festival for Emerging Writers, Houston, March 6-12 12th Annual Book & Author Luncheon, Bulverde, March 8 Celebration of Texas Authors, Austin, March 8 32nd Annual Tejas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 9012 WORDfest (Writers Organizations ‘Round…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.12.2017   Texas artists feature river themes in paintings A noted Texas conservationist and a leading Texas art historian and collector have teamed up with twenty contemporary Texas artists to produce an extraordinary book, Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover). It’s early in the year, but…

Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY Nigel Cliff Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story – How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War Harper Hardcover, 978-0-0623-3316-2, 464 pages, $28.99 (also available as paperback and ebook) Reviewed by Si Dunn Picture 100,000 people jammed onto sidewalks cheering as a ticker-tape parade surged through New York City. This…

Every winter tens of thousands of snowbirds flock to Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley, bringing to the warm and palm-tree-lined streets from McAllen to Brownsville an annual economic impact of more than $1 billion. While cities like Mission, Edinburg, Harlingen, Weslaco, Mercedes, Donna, San Benito, and Pharr have rich histories of their own, it’s also…

Most of the readers and writers we know, far from being the sort to only haunt the recesses of their town’s library or curl up on the couch when the sun’s shining, like to get out and visit the places they’ve read about. Or the places that inspire them. We polled our staff—in a most…