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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY/SPORTS Kevin Roberts Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Hardcover, 978-0-544-14849-9 (ebook also available), 348 pgs., $28.00; April 5, 2016 Reviewed by Si Dunn No matter where on Earth you play golf, Harvey Penick likely has…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com BIOGRAPHY/SPORTS Kevin Robbins Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Hardcover, 978-0-544-14849-9 (ebook also available), 348 pgs., $28.00 April 5, 2016 Reviewed by Si Dunn No matter where on Earth you play golf,…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 What more ideal place could there be to sign  our Paragraph Ranch novels — and copies of Literary Texas — than the amazing Paragraphs on Padre Island bookstore at the beach? Below, Lone Star Lit’s Kay Ellington (left) and Barbara Brannon were greeted by a full house…

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 Special Events 2nd Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop, Midland, September 16-18 Building a Writing Life: A…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.25.16    Author relates history of Texas Prison Rodeo I never made it to the Texas Prison Rodeo in Huntsville, but it was quite an event when I was growing up in Southeast Texas. My dad was a Baptist preacher and he thought our family had better things to do on Sundays…

Contributing Editor WOMEN’S STUDIESInés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, editors Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art 978-1-4773-0796-0, Hardcover, 501 pp., 12 color photos, 38 b&w photos. University of Texas Press, February 2016 Reviewed by Natalia Treviño The cover of Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art greets us with the…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 A recent trip to Fort Worth provided Lone Star Literary Life a chance to visit a couple of the city’s longtime indie bookstores—and one brad-new one. We stopped in first to talk with Paul Combs (far right), whose store on South Jennings Ave., The Last Word, opened…

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…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com WOMEN’S STUDIES Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, editors Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art 978-1-4773-0796-0, Hardcover, 501 pp., 12 color photos, 38 b&w photos University of Texas Press February 2016 Reviewed by Natalia Treviño The cover of Entre Guadalupe y…