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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Novel pits Pancho Villa against railroad baron Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump, sets his new historical novel in El Paso and Mexico and pits revolutionary general Pancho Villa against an American railroad baron. El Paso (W.W. Norton, $27.99 hardcover) is…

ConDFW set for Feb. 10-12 in Fort Worth ConDFW XVI will be held February 10-12, 2017, at the Radisson Hotel/Fossil Creek, Fort Worth. Guests of honor will include author Rachel Caine (above, left) and artist R. Cat Conrad (right). At the annual literary science fiction and fantasy convention, attendees can mingle with author and artist…

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 Alchemy of Mind and Spirit: Intersections of Science and Poetry, Austin, September 26-January 13 The Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville, Dallas, through January 29 Special Events…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.22.2017   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 Great Depression. Dallas author Rusty Williams tells…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor HISTORICAL FICTION Bill Wittliff, illustrated by Joe Ciardiello The Devil’s Sinkhole University of Texas Press Hardcover, 978-1477309742, 214 pgs., $29.95 (also available as an e-book), October 4, 2016 Reviewed by François Pointeau The Devil’s Sinkhole is a real place in Texas, a National Natural Landmark that houses one…

Texas Book Festival announces dates for 2017 weekend; submissions open Jan. 9 AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival says its 2016 Festival Weekend was one of the most successful on record, with 50,000 attendees coming together on November 5 and 6 in the largest celebration of books and literacy in the Festival’s history. The Festival…

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 BILL WITTLIFF is a distinguished screenwriter and producer whose credits include Lonesome Dove, The Perfect Storm, The Black Stallion, and Legends of the Fall, among others. His fine art photography has been published in the books A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove, La…

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 Alchemy of Mind and Spirit: Intersections of Science and Poetry, Austin, September 26-January 13 The Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville, Dallas, through January 29 Special Events…