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Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor
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,…
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Special Events
Richland College 33rd Annual Literary Arts Festival, Dallas, April 4 – 8 Our Lady of the Lake University 2016 Literary Festival, San Antonio, April 5 – 7 The Beall Poetry Festival, Waco, April 6 – 8 Austin International Poetry Festival, April 7 – 10 Lone Star College Book Festival, Kingwood, April 8 – 9 North…
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Lone Star Listens: Skip Hollandsworth on Wichita Falls, Texas Monthly, and a killer new book
He’s an author, a journalist, a screenwriter, and executive editor for Texas Monthly magazine. He’s introduced us to Bernie and a variety of our fellow Texans who have run afoul of the law, and even gave us an inside tour of the King Ranch. In his first book Skip Hollandsworth takes us on the trail…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.10.16 Doctor relates coming-of-age love story Dallas ophthalmologist Dr. Rob Tenery has written Chasing the Ponytail ($15.95 paperback), a very readable story about his coming of age in the 1950s and early ’60s in Waxahachie as he pursued the love of his life, Janet Forrest, through high school and college. Rob…
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Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole
Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveBook brings back memories for Astros fans Just in time for baseball season, Triumph Books has released 100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by veteran Houston sports writer Brian McTaggart ($14.95 paperback). The book will bring back a lot of memories for longtime Astros fans. Before…
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4.3.16 News Briefs
Austin International Poetry Festival gets 24th year under way, April 7–10 Two of Texas’s best-known poets will join a group of headliners of internationally, nationally, and locally recognized poets at the 24th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 7-10, 2016, in Austin. Joaquin Zihuatanejo of Denton (above, right) is an Individual World Poetry Slam champion,…
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Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor
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,…
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Special Events
Culture of Writing Festival, Dallas, March 29 International Children’s Book Day, April 2 Inspirational Writers Alive! Conference, Amarillo, April 2 Lone Star LesFic Festival, Austin, April 2 Literary Death Match, San Antonio, April 2 San Antonio Book Festival, April 2 Teen Book Con, Houston, April 2 Ongoing Exhibits Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.3.16 Book brings back memories for Astros fans Just in time for baseball season, Triumph Books has released 100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by veteran Houston sports writer Brian McTaggart ($14.95 paperback). The book will bring back a lot of memories for longtime Astros fans.…