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Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY Jane Eppinga Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point’s First Black Graduate Wild Horse Press Paperback, 234 pages, with b/w images, 978-1-68179-006-0, $19.95 September 21, 2015 (originally published 1996) Reviewed by Si Dunn In 1877, 2nd Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,…

Illumination Celebration lights up Abilene, Storybook Capital of Texas, Mar. 8 On Tues., March 8, 2016, downtown Abilene will celebrate its designation as the “Storybook Capital of Texas” with special lighting for its seventeen Storybook Sculptures. Abilene received the official designation during the 84th legislative session, and families have already found the city, home of…

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,…

Little Free Library Texas Tour, various locations, March 2 – 15 31st Annual Texas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 10 – 13 Barrio Writers Spring Break Writing Camp, Austin, March 15 – 17 National Book Awards Festival, Huntsville, March 16 – 18 Texas-Mexico Relations and the 2016 Election, Dallas and Stephenville, March 16-17 ALL-CON 2016, Dallas,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.13.16   Photographs capture underwater beauty in Gulf Photographer Jesse Cancelmo provides nearly two hundred color photos of underwater life in the Gulf of Mexico in his gorgeous coffee-table book, Glorious Gulf of Mexico: Life Below the Blue (Texas A&M University Press, $30 flexbound). The 600,000 square miles of the international gulf…

Festival of International Books & Arts (FESTIBA), Edinburg, February 29-March 6 Little Free Library Texas Tour, various locations, March 2 – 15 Staple 2016, Austin, March 5-6 31st Annual Texas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 10 – 13 Ongoing Exhibits Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature:…

Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY Jane Eppinga Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point’s First Black Graduate Wild Horse Press Paperback, 234 pages, with b/w images, 978-1-68179-006-0, $19.95 September 21, 2015 (originally published 1996) Reviewed by Si Dunn In 1877, 2nd Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,…

Most of the readers and writers we know, far from being the sort to only haunt the recesses of their town’s library or curl up on the couch when the sun’s shining, like to get out and visit the places they’ve read about. Or the places that inspire them. We polled our staff—in a most…

LUBBOCK Lubbock has been dubbed The Hub City for being the center of a rotation of small towns in a 15-county retail trade zone that extends into Eastern New Mexico. The population of Lubbock in 1970 was 180,568. But country has come to the city, and in-migration from small towns has grown the Hub City…

Illumination Celebration lights up Abilene, Storybook Capital of Texas, Mar. 8 On Tues., March 8, 2016, downtown Abilene will celebrate its designation as the “Storybook Capital of Texas” with special lighting for its seventeen Storybook Sculptures. Abilene received the official designation during the 84th legislative session, and families have already found the city, home of…