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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.31.16    Photographer presents portraits from the past Fort Worth fine art photographer Jack Knox spent eight years exploring and photographing images from the back roads of Texas. The result is his impressive full-color 12-by-12, 136-page collection of color photos, Texas: Ghost Towns, Gas Stations, and a 20-Foot Cowboy (John M. Hardy…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveTower sniper terrorized UT fifty years ago Shortly before noon on Monday, Aug. 1, 1966, twenty-five-year-old Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of weapons and ammunition to the top of the thirty-story Tower at the University of Texas and opened fire on the unsuspecting pedestrians below. The slaughter — 14 dead,…

16th annual West Texas Book Festival announces lineup for Sept. 19-24 in Abilene Leila Meacham, the national New York Times best-selling author of Roses, Tumbleweeds, Somerset, Titans, and more will be the featured keynote speaker Sat., Sept. 24, at the West Texas Book Festival and will be recognized as this year’s A.C. Greene award winner.…

Macondo Writers’ Workshop, San Antonio, 14-17 10th Annual Writers’ League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat, Alpine, July 18-22 Barrio Writers present a Week-long Writing Workshop, Austin, July 18-23 Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, July 19-22 Gemini Ink Writers Conference, San Antonio, July 21-24 The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, July 22-24 Ongoing Exhibits Xu Bing:…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.24.16    Tower sniper terrorized UT fifty years ago Shortly before noon on Monday, Aug. 1, 1966, twenty-five-year-old Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of weapons and ammunition to the top of the thirty-story Tower at the University of Texas and opened fire on the unsuspecting pedestrians below. The slaughter — 14…

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher 7.17.2016  Lex Williford, El Paso writer and teacher, editor Many of our readers are aspiring writers — but with the day job they can’t find the time or the way to write. In this week’s issue Lone Star Listens visits with Lex Williford, who chairs the online creative writing MFA…

16th annual West Texas Book Festival announces lineup for Sept. 19-24 in Abilene Leila Meacham, the national New York Times best-selling author of Roses, Tumbleweeds, Somerset, Titans, and more will be the featured keynote speaker Sat., Sept. 24, at the West Texas Book Festival and will be recognized as this year’s A.C. Greene award winner.…

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…

Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, July 12-15 Macondo Writers’ Workshop, San Antonio, 14-17 2nd Annual San Antonio Indie Book Fest, July 16 Stop Dreaming and Start Doing: A Conference for Aspiring Writers, Post, July 16 Ongoing Exhibits Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu…

Lex Williford is the founding director of the online MFA at the University of Texas at El Paso and is the current chair of UTEP’s bilingual MFA program. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Elm Leaves, Fiction, Glimmer Train Stories, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Laurel Review, Natural Bridge, The Novel…