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Contributing Editor HISTORICAL FICTION Jeff P. Jones Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize Texas Review Press Paperback, 978-1-68003-097-6, 384 pages, $18.95; October 25, 2016 BIOGRAPHY John Boessenecker Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde…

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…

HISTORY Roth, Mitchel P. Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo University of North Texas Press Hardcover, 978-157441-652-7, 448 pages, $32.95 (ebook also available) July 2016 Mitchel P. Roth, a criminology and criminal justice professor at Huntsville’s Sam Houston State University, has produced an eye-opening and much-needed look inside the world-famous Texas…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Jeff P. Jones was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. His paternal ancestors were sharecroppers in East Texas. He’s a MacDowell Fellow, and his fiction has won several awards, including the A. David Schwartz, Hackney, Wabash, and Meridian Editors’ prizes. He lives on 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 Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston, October 29-November 13 Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston,…

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 11.20.16    Cookbooks feature barbecue, enchiladas, chili Three colorful new cookbooks with a Texas flavor have hit the market this fall. Texan BBQ: A Smokin’ Good Cookbook by Robert Louis Murphy (New Holland, $35 hardcover) includes a chapter of practical barbecue cooking tips before getting to recipes for beef, lamb, pork, chicken,…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY / MUSIC Tamara Saviano Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 978-1-62349-454-4, 406 pages, $29.95; October 2016 Reviewed by Rod Davis In the pantheon of Texas musicians, in particular the singer-songwriters, perhaps none is more revered—truly—than Guy…

TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2016 WRAPUP, 11.6.16 History of Texas Highway Department, memoir by Waylon Jennings’s son, and much more close out 2016 Texas Book Festival Despite off-and-on rain showers, thousands of bookfans lined up for panels in and around the capitol building on Sunday — many arriving early to clinch prime seats. Sessions with novelists…