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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION Robert J. DeLuca The Pact with the Devil Archway Publishing 978-1-4808-2529-1 (paperback) 352 pages, $21.99 (also available in hardcover and as ebook; 2016 Robert J. DeLuca’s novel, The Pact with the Devil, offers an intriguing variation on a classic story. This time, two men who are essentially…

Lone Star Literary Life’s Bookish Tour of Texas, January 27–28, 2017 The last weekend in January brought the Lone Star Lit team back to our roots in West Texas. On Saturday, Jan. 27, Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon had the pleasure of lunch with Canyon author Donald Mace Williams (author of the forthcoming Wolfe and…

FICTION Robert J. DeLuca The Pact with the Devil Archway Publishing 978-1-4808-2529-1 (paperback) 352 pages, $21.99 (also available in hardcover and as ebook Robert J. DeLuca’s novel, The Pact with the Devil, offers an intriguing variation on a classic story. This time, two men who are essentially devils—a crooked Texas real estate developer and a…

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.…

Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22 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…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.29.2017   Author Jeff Guinn pens another western The third novel in Fort Worth author Jeff Guinn’s award-winning western trilogy is Silver City (Putnam, $27 hardcover), and it’s another thriller that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens to main character Cash McLendon. For two years McLendon has…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas, Oklahoma battled over a bridge in 1931 Have you ever heard of the war between Texas and Oklahoma in 1931? Not a football game, but a full-fledged armed conflict over a 75-cent toll bridge at the beginning of what would become the…

Lone Star Literary Life’s Bookish Tour of Texas, January 2017 A chilly, gray mid-January provided the perfect opportunity to spend some time in our favorite cold-weather literary haunts: museums and libraries. The Lone Star Lit team trekked from Abilene to San Angelo in West Texas, starting out with a visit to the National Center for…

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.…

Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22 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 Special Events Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend,…