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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…

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…

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…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.9.16    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 common. Miles and Miles of Texas: 100…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive New books delve into Texas alligators and tacos I had no idea that alligators can be found in 120 of Texas’s 254 counties until I picked up Alligators of Texas by Louise Hayes, who has been studying the subject for more than thirty…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 In Lexington, Texas, a town of some 1,100 souls about 50 miles northeast of Austin, there are definitely more books than people. Thousands more, within the colorful walls of 40 Acre Wood, an independent bookstore whose patrons feel passionately enough to have voted it one of Texas’s…

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…

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 10.02.16    New books delve into Texas alligators and tacos I had no idea that alligators can be found in 120 of Texas’s 254 counties until I picked up Alligators of Texas by Louise Hayes, who has been studying the subject for more than thirty years (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 flexbound).…