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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.17.16    Book pays tribute to historic Texas churches One of my favorite Texas books this year is Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas by Carl J. Christensen Jr. and Pixie Christensen (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover). The book chronicles the architectural and historical significance of sixty-seven Texas…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive7.10.16 Trailer Park Princess is back with rousing new adventures When dog groomer Salem Grimes pulls into Sonic for a double-meat, double-cheese burger with extra mayo and jumbo fries, the last thing she’s expecting to find is another dead body. But as she waits…

WLT’S Texas Writes Heads West to Marathon, Jeff Davis Texas Writes is a statewide program that brings accomplished authors to rural libraries for a half day of presentations and panel discussions. Each event is free and open to the public. The Writers’ League of Texas, supported by a grant from the Tocker Foundation, established the…

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 5–8 North Texas Comic Book Show, Dallas, July 9 Ongoing Exhibits Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22 Sunday, July 3 Austin Recycled Reads, Open Mic Poetry, 3:30PM Monday, July 4 Happy Independence…

For the past decade Richard Mabry, a retired physician, has been as busy in his second career as a novelist of Christian medical thrillers as he was in his first. Along the way, he’s received rave reviews in Publishers WeeklyLibrary Journal and has been nominated for and won a variety of writing awards. He also…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.10.16    Trailer Park Princess is back with rousing new adventures When dog groomer Salem Grimes pulls into Sonic for a double-meat, double-cheese burger with extra mayo and jumbo fries, the last thing she’s expecting to find is another dead body. But as she waits for her food to be delivered, she…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveBiographer offers critical appraisal of Bush’s presidency Historian and biographer Jean Edward Smith gets right to the point in Bush, his critical 800-page biography of President George W.  Bush (Simon & Schuster, $35 hardcover). It goes on sale Tuesday. “Rarely in the history of…

Pam Minick, co-host of RFD-TV programs The American Rancher and Gentle Giants, and photographer/ author Jeremy Enlow discuss Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch. Enlow will give a book lecture July 14 aboard the Green Dragon Trolley in Dallas. Photographer/author Enlow to give talk about Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch aboard Dallas trolley, sign books afterward,…

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…