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Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole
Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveGeorge Jones biography chronicles musician’s colorful life If you were a fan of George Jones’s country music, you will want to read Rich Kienzle’s biography, The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones (Dey Street Books, $27.99 hardcover), which comes out Tuesday. Appropriately, Kienzle begins the book with the…
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3.27.16 News Briefs
Texas Library Association to be held Apr. 19–22 in Houston; featured speakers include LeVar Burton, Al Roker, Dav Pilkey, Gene Luen Yang AUSTIN – Librarians from around the state are preparing for the 2016 TLA Annual Conference, taking place in Houston, April 19 – 22, where more than 7,500 industry professionals will gather over four…
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Special Events
ALL-CON 2016, Dallas, March 17 – 20 Wildcatter Exchange, Fort Worth, March 25 – 26 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 Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The…
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AG Ford 032716
AG Ford is a New York Times best-selling children’s book illustrator and recipient of two NAACP Image Awards. He grew up in Dallas and quickly understood his ability to recreate what he saw with pencil and paper. Ford attended the Columbus College of Art and Design, majoring in illustration. He has illustrated picture books for…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.27.16 George Jones biography chronicles his colorful life If you were a fan of George Jones’s country music, you will want to read Rich Kienzle’s biography, The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones (Dey Street Books, $27.99 hardcover), which comes out Tuesday. Appropriately, Kienzle begins the book with…
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Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole
Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveStowers pens final Ralph Compton western Western writer Ralph Compton died in 1998 at age sixty-four, but Signet Books has continued churning out shoot-’em-ups under his name but written by other notable authors. My friend Carlton Stowers, author of more than forty of his own books and co-author with me of…
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3.20.16 News Briefs
Houston Writers Guild presents three-day annual conference April 29–May 1, with authors Jamie Ford and Pamela Fagan Hutchins The 2016 Houston Writers Guild annual conference will be held April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Marriott Houston Westchase, 2900 Briarpark Drive, Houston, Texas 77042. Registration and event times vary each day. Friday night, April 29, the…
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Lone Star Listens: Clay Reynolds
Clay Reynolds, academic, scholar, literary critic, essayist, and novelist, has been a key figure on the Texas literary scene for four decades—and has seen a lot. Beyond his own prolific writing, his influence on the state’s literary life is wide-ranging; in 2014, one of his UT Dallas creative writing students won a Pushcart Prize. …
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.20.16 Stowers pens final Ralph Compton western Western writer Ralph Compton died in 1998 at age sixty-four, but Signet Books has continued churning out shoot-’em-ups under his name but written by other notable authors. My friend Carlton Stowers, author of more than forty of his own books and co-author with me…