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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.…

ConDFW XVI, February 10-12 Black History Month Writer’s Showcase, Cedar Hill, February 11-12 Houston Authors Bash, February 11-12 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16 The Lost Generation: World War I Poetry, Denton, January 17-May 11 Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, Fort Worth, January 21-May 7…

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 2.12.2017   Texas A&M women’s basketball coach tells his story With college basketball’s March Madness just around the corner, Texas A&M women’s coach Gary Blair tells his story in a very engaging style in A Coaching Life (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover). Blair has been a highly successful college coach for…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive 2.5.2017   Dallas shotgun squads targeted armed robbers In his new book, Holloway’s Raiders ($24.95 paperback), retired Dallas police captain E. R. Walt tells the story of the shotgun squads deployed by Dallas police in the ’60s and ’70s in an effort to deter armed robberies that had become rampant in…

Fifteen elected to Texas Institute of Letters Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have approved fifteen new writers to join the ranks of the TIL, a distinguished honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s membership consists of the state’s most respected writers—including winners of 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.…

The Lost Generation: World War I Poetry, Denton, January 17-May 11 The Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville, Dallas, through January 29 Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, Fort Worth, January 21-May 7 The Human Experience: From Texas to the World literacy initiative, Houston, January 18-May 18 Special Events Dallas Public…

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 2.5.2017   Dallas shotgun squads targeted armed robbers In his new book, Holloway’s Raiders ($24.95 paperback), retired Dallas police captain E. R. Walt tells the story of the shotgun squads deployed by Dallas police in the ’60s and ’70s in an effort to deter armed robberies that had become rampant in the…