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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.…

One Day Jewish University, Dallas, February 26 FESTIBA, Festival of International Books & Arts, Edinburg & Brownsville, February 27-March 5 Odessa College, Odessa, Writers’ League of Texas presents Celebrating Texas Independents: Our Great Literary State’s Independent Presses, Journals, Bookstores & More (panel discussion), 7PM North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, March 3–4 Odessa Shakespeare Festival,…

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 3.5.2017   Historians explore special moments in Texas history Fifteen prominent Texas historians were invited to answer this question: “At what moment in Texas history would you have liked to have been a ‘fly on the wall’ and why?” Their responding essays constitute a compelling new book, Eavesdropping on Texas History (University…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor TEXAS SPORTS Jeff  Miller, with foreword by “Mean” Joe Greene The Game Changers: Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football’s Color Barrier Sports Publishing Hardcover 978-1-61321-937-9, 241 pages, $24.99; also available as ebook; October 2016 Reviewed by Carlton Stowers With all due respect to…

TEXAS SPORTS Jeff  Miller, with foreword by “Mean” Joe Greene The Game Changers: Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football’s Color Barrier Sports Publishing Hardcover 978-1-61321-937-9, 241 pages, $24.99; also available as ebook October 2016 Reviewed by Carlton Stowers With all due respect to Charles Dickens, it was the best of…

First Fort Wort BookFest set for four days and multiple venues in October Organizers have announced the Fort Worth BookFest for Oct. 12–15, 2017, in Fort Worth. Envisioned as a cross-cultural, community-driven, multi-genre literary event, Fort Worth BookFest will “provide a platform for raising awareness of the transformative power of literacy” in Fort Worth and…

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.…

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…

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…