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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 8th Annual Humanities of Texas Holiday Book Fair, Austin, December 3 Austin Writergrrls Book Fest,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.4.16    Texas songwriters featured in new books Fans of Texas music have several new books to choose from this fall. All involve, in one way or another, the art of songwriting. Three of the titles are non-fiction, while the other one is a novel based on an actual song. First, the…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor NATURE & ECOLOGY Patrick Dearen Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover 978-0-8061-5201-1 (also available as an ebook), 256 pgs., $29.95 March 2016 WINNER, 2016 NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA BOOK AWARD The headwaters of the Pecos originate 13,000 feet up in the Sangre de…

Humanities Texas hosts annual Holiday Book Fair, Austin, Dec. 3 AUSTIN — Humanities Texas will host its eighth annual Holiday Book Fair at the historic Byrne-Reed House on Sat., Dec. 3, 2016, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. A number of noteworthy authors—including Lawrence Wright, David Oshinksy, Sarah Bird, H. W. Brands, Stephen Harrigan, Andrea…

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…

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 None this week Sunday, November 20 Austin BookPeople, MysteryPeople presents: LANCE HAWVERMALE (Face Blind), BEN…

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 11.27.16    Two new novels are set in Abilene Two new novels set in Abilene — one for adults, one for younger readers — have hit bookshelves this fall. Carol O. Riordan, who grew up in Abilene and now lives in New York, is the author of The Unseen (Westbow Press, $24.95…