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Boldface: A Conference for Emerging Writers, Houston, May 23-27 Ongoing Exhibits Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 Sunday, May 22 Austin BookPeople, YA Novelists SAMANTHA MABRY & JOY PREBLE speaking…

If you’re traveling West this Memorial Day week to kick off a summer vacation and you find yourself in a place outside of Van Horn or Fort Stockton or Monahans, you can understand why the area might be dubbed The Far Empty, the title of J. Todd Scott’s debut novel. However, you might also see…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.29.16   Sports, celebrity photos featured in new book This isn’t a Texas book per se, but it was published by the University of Texas Press and includes pictures of several Texans, so I’m going to mention it here anyway. Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs by Neil Leifer with Diane K.…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveTrilogy features women pilots of World War II WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds (University of North Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover) is the third book in author Sarah Byrn Rickman’s trilogy on women pilots in World War II. Rickman will sign copies of her book at the Women…

Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review,…

Sachse Author Con slated for May 21 SACSHE—The Sachse Public Library’s annual Author Con is slated for Sat., May 21, 2016, from noon to 4 p.m. The kind of autograph-seekers who will descend on the Sachse Public Library on Saturday, May 21 and eagerly approach the 30 personalities gathered there will not be your typical…

Author Con, Sachse, May 21 Ongoing Exhibits Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 Necessary Work: Bryce Milligan’s World of Words and Design, San Antonio, April 9 – May 21 Sunday,…

San Antonio’s Jan Jarboe Russell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (Scribner, 2015), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Best Book of Nonfiction. She is a Neiman Fellow and…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.22.16   Trilogy features women pilots of World War II WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds (University of North Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover) is the third book in author Sarah Byrn Rickman’s trilogy on women pilots in World War II. Rickman will sign copies of her book at the…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveCookbook features Texas restaurant recipes Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes: A Cookbook & Restaurant Guide by Anita Musgrove (Great American Publishers, $18.95 paperback) offers up favorite recipes from about 125 Texas cafes, diners, and eateries. Most of them are, as the book’s title suggest,…