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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.23.16    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 book touches on familiar Texas topics from…

Celebrate Kwanzaa at the Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth, Dec. 26–Jan. 1 The Dock Bookshop will host its annual seven-day celebration of family, community, and culture Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 through Sun., Jan. 1, 2017 The Dock Bookshop – 6637 Meadowbrook Dr. Fort Worth, TX 76112. All Kwanzaa events are open to the public. Here is…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MEMOIR/CRITICISM Robert Lopez Flynn Holy Literary License: The Almighty Chooses Fallible Mortals to Write, Edit, and Translate GodStory Wings Press Paperback, 978-1-6094-0465-9, 258 pgs., $16.95 (also available as an e-book); October 1, 2016 Reviewed by James R. Dennis Robert Flynn is a fine storyteller. His new book, Holy…

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 Sunday, December 11 Austin Austin Public Library – Yarborough Branch, Sisters in Crime: solve a…

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…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Robert Flynn is a professor emeritus, Trinity University and a native of Chillicothe, Texas, is the author of over a dozen books. Seven novels: North To Yesterday (Knopf, 1967), In the House of the Lord (Knopf, 1969), The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.18.16    Author Max Lucado tells why he loves Christmas Best-selling San Antonio author and minister Max Lucado gets right to the point in his new book, Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here (Thomas Nelson, $19.99 hardcover). “I love Christmas” are the first three words on the page. Lucado…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive A coffee table book for history lovers The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum presents an up-close look at 81 of its artifacts in a full-color coffee-table book, Seeing Texas History (University of Texas Press, $40 hardcover). The artifact photographs are arranged chronologically,…

In this final issue of Lone Star Literary Life of 2016, the editors of Lone Star Lit would like to say thank you to all of the authors who have written books about our state or set in our state, but we’d like pay special recognition to our Favorite Texas Nonfiction of 2016. We winnowed…