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Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, June 28-July 1 Ongoing Exhibits Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 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, June…

In the past month Beaumont, Texas, native Jamie Brickhouse has been coast to coast promoting the release of the paperback version of his best-selling memoir Dangerous When Wet. Between an interview with Rumpus, a reading at a Trinity University alumni chapter in New York, and a performance and talk at the Elliott Bay Book Company…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.3.16    Biographer 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 the United States,” he writes in…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveTwo books focus on Texas lore, culture Two new attractive hardback books make it their mission to try to explain — in an entertaining way — what it means to be a Texan. How to Be a Texan: The Manual by Andrea Valdez (University…

Texas Book Festival 2016 leads off with Bush mother and daughter, Ha Jin, Arce, Cronin, Hollandsworth, Myles, Semple, Witliff, and more The Texas Book Festival has announced sixteen of the authors who will participate in this year’s Texas Book Festival, happening November 5 and 6 in and around the State Capitol grounds in Austin. (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…

Comicpalooza, Houston, June 17-19 Writers’ League of Texas Annual Agents & Editors Conference, Austin, June 24-26 10th Annual Austin African-American Book Festival, June 25 Ongoing Exhibits Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.26.16    Two books focus on Texas lore, culture Two new attractive hardback books make it their mission to try to explain — in an entertaining way — what it means to be a Texan. How to Be a Texan: The Manual by Andrea Valdez (University of Texas Press, $21.95) is the…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveDisturbing story of abuse begins in Texas A well-intentioned program that put intellectually disabled men to work on a turkey farm in Texas won a national award in 1968 but eventually became the source of a scandal that rocked Iowa and the nation. Dan…

Texas Book Festival 2016 leads off with Bush mother and daughter, Ha Jin, Arce, Cronin, Hollandsworth, Myles, Semple, Witliff, and more The Texas Book Festival has announced sixteen of the authors who will participate in this year’s Texas Book Festival, happening November 5 and 6 in and around the State Capitol grounds in Austin. (The…