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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.13.16    Texas book topics: humor, football, women You Might Be from Texas if by Nick Anderson (MacIntyre Purcell Publishing, $19.95 paperback) is a collection of color cartoons poking fun at our Texas eccentricities. Anderson, editorial cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle, has some pretty good zingers. You might be from Texas if:…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY Joan Mellen Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas Bloomsbury USA Hardcover (ebook), 978-1-62040-806-3, 384 pages, $28.00; September 13, 2016 A “Faustian bargain” is a deal with the Devil. You give your soul to Beelzebub in return for a…

TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2016 WRAPUP, 11.6.16 History of Texas Highway Department, memoir by Waylon Jennings’s son, and much more close out TBF 2016 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 like Robert…

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 George West Storyfest, November 4-6 21st…

Laura Bush, Jenna Bush Hager open 2016 Texas Book Festival to enthusiastic crowds CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2016 MOMENTS Jenna Hager Bush (above, left) and her mother, former first lady Laura Bush (center), read from their children’s book, Our Great Big Backyard, and answered questions posed by moderator Dorothy Guerrero (right).…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com P OLITICAL BIOGRAPHY Joan Mellen Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas Bloomsbury USA Hardcover (ebook), 978-1-62040-806-3, 384 pages, $28.00 September 13, 2016 A “Faustian bargain” is a deal with the Devil. You give your soul to…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Jean Edward Smith was a member of the faculty at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve. He has also been a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown. In addition to Bush, he is the author of…

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…