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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.15.2017    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 a fast-moving 477-page epic that mixes in…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor ESSAYS/CULTURAL STUDIES Willard Spiegelman Senior Moments:  Looking Back, Looking Ahead Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover  (ebook) 978-0-374-26122-1, 208 pages, $24.00; September 13, 2016 Reviewed by Si Dunn Life, we are often reminded, is a journey, and some journeys are better than others, especially if we share them with good…

ESSAYS/CULTURAL STUDIES Willard Spiegelman Senior Moments:  Looking Back, Looking Ahead Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover  (ebook) 978-0-374-26122-1, 208 pages, $24.00 September 13, 2016 Life, we are often reminded, is a journey, and some journeys are better than others, especially if we share them with good friends. The delightful personal essays in Willard Spiegelman’s Senior Moments take…

Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Kirkus, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator at the 20th annual Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, High Country News, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho…

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…

Bookseller and writing group updates, January 2017 The close of one year and the debut of another always brings word of important transitions, and bookish Texas life is no exception. While we’ve learned of changes in some of our favorite bookstore destinations from the east side of the state to the west, we’ve also gotten…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.8.2017    Couple produces readable, colorful book on Texas birds Author/professor Gary Clark has teamed up with his wife, photographer Kathy Clark, to produce the very readable and colorful Book of Texas Birds (Texas A&M University Press, $39.95 flexbound). The 512-page book is thorough, fun to read, and richly illustrated with hundreds…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas alphabet book gets creative H is for Howdy and Other Lone Star Letters is a delightful new Texas alphabet book by Houston area authors Eva Freeburn and Lawson Gow, illustrated by James Little (Bright Sky Press, $19.95 hardcover). Written in rhyme, the…

Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Kirkus, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator at the 20th annual Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, High Country News, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho…

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 Special Events No special events or festivals this week Sunday, December 18 Austin Malvern Books, The Lion…