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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.18.16    Three suspenseful novels from Texas authors J. Todd Scott, a 20-year federal agent with the DEA, has written The Far Empty, a suspenseful first novel set in a fictional small town in the Big Bend area (Putnam, $26 hardcover). Sheriff Stanford Ross, called The Judge, rules the town of Murfee…

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 Amazing Houston Comic Con, September 9-11 Houston Public Library Kids’ Book Festival, September…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MYSTERY/THRILLER Brett Burlison Riverside Barton Creek Press Paperback, 978-0-9969696-0-4 (ebook also available), 348 pages, $13.95; January 2016 Riverside by Brett Burlison is a well-written mystery thriller that deftly captures the atmosphere of its Austin settings in the early 1990s. Readers who know the Texas capital city will recognize…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 A recent swing through Fort Worth provided Lone Star Literary Life a chance to visit several literary locales. We stopped in to say hi to Rebecca Allen (at right, below, with Barbara Brannon, left, and Kay Ellington) and the other staff of TCU Press, then paid a…

MYSTERY/THRILLER Brett Burlison Riverside Barton Creek Press Paperback, 978-0-9969696-0-4 (ebook also available), 348 pages, $13.95 January 2016 Riverside by Brett Burlison is a well-written mystery thriller that deftly captures the atmosphere of its Austin settings in the early 1990s. Readers who know the Texas capital city will recognize many neighborhoods and establishments not far from…

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 Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 7-10 Amazing Houston Comic Con, September 9-11 28th Annual National Cowboy Symposium, Lubbock, September 9-11 DFW Literary SoulFEST, Fort Worth, September 10 Mid-Cities Teen Book…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.11.16    Cookbook stirs up memories as well as recipes Longtime Texas Highways senior editor Nola McKey has written a cookbook that stirs up memories as well as recipes. From Tea Cakes to Tamales: Third-Generation Texas Recipes (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 flexbound) includes more than 100 recipes that have been passed…

Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016 The Labor Day holiday week provides a great opportunity for literary travel in the Lone Star State. Above, Lone Star Lit editors Kay Ellington (above, left) and Barbara Brannon (center) paid a visit to Carlos Guajardo (back, left) and Andrés de la Casa-Huertas San Martín (right) 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…