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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.23.16    Dallas Cowboy legends profiled in new books Veteran sportswriter Jim Reeves, who covered both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers during his forty-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, has written Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America’s Team (Berkeley Place Books, $9.95 paperback, 192 pages). Reeves recalls the team’s…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor SUSPENSE FICTION Greg Lynch Plain Brown Wrapper Black Rose Writing Paperback, 978-1-61296-697-7 (also available as an ebook), 350 pgs., $19.95; May 2016 Billy Clayton, Dallas city councilman possessed of state senate aspirations, has a problem. The Cotton Bowl is scheduled for demolition to make room for a new…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 Walking the sidewalks of a world-class city and coming upon the treasure-house of a literary bookstore like Paris’s Shakespeare & Company, San Francisco’s City Lights, or Denver’s Tattered Cover stirs a particular thrill of discovery. That’s how it was when we pulled up to the curb around…

SUSPENSE FICTION Greg Lynch Plain Brown Wrapper Black Rose Writing Paperback, 978-1-61296-697-7 (also available as an ebook), 350 pgs., $19.95 May 2016 Billy Clayton, Dallas city councilman possessed of state senate aspirations, has a problem. The Cotton Bowl is scheduled for demolition to make room for a new sports complex, part of a bid to…

Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, a Humanities Texas exhibit, Fort Worth, September 15-October 15 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…

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 10.16.16    A quick look at some new Texas books Lauro F. Cavazos, who served as U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech, tells his story in A Kineño’s Journey: On Family, Learning, and Public Service (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95 hardcover). Cavazos was born on the King Ranch, where…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas Reads: Miles and miles of Texas stories Two Texas books have been published this fall with similar covers but quite different content. Both covers feature photographs looking down a long, empty, yellow-striped Texas road. But that’s the only thing they have in…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 Back in September, the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration found us here on our home turf of Lubbock. Among the many cowboy poets and songwriters, storytellers, and book dealers (including our friends at Texas Tech University Press, and bookman Len Ainsworth of Lubbock) was YA novelist S.…