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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,…

Writefest, Houston, February 22-28 Festival of International Books & Arts (FESTIBA), Edinburg, February 29-March 6 Austin Book Fest, March 5 Sin Fronteras Independent Book Festival, McAllen, March 5 Staple 2016, Austin, March 5-6 Ongoing Exhibits Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.6.16   FBI agent finds small-town chief’s job challenging Dallas author Melissa Lenhardt introduces readers to the new police chief in town, Jack McBride, in her debut novel, Stillwater (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99 hardcover). McBride moves to the fictional East Texas small town of Stillwater to take the chief’s position in hopes of…

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…

Writefest, Houston, February 22 – 28 30th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Alpine, February 26 – 27 Montgomery County Book Festival, The Woodlands, February 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…

Alice returns through the rabbit hole via Amarillo author A.G. Howard’s goth-punk retelling of Alice in Wonderland in her popular Splintered series. The former school librarian took time out to visit with us last week via email about her path to publishing. LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: It’s a long way from Amarillo to Alice in…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com A longtime resident of Arizona, historian and author Jane Eppinga is a member of Western Writers of America, Southern Arizona Authors, and the National Federation of Press Women and serves on the board of directors of Arizona Press Women. She received the 1995 C.…

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,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 2.28.16   Hackberry Holland featured in new James Lee Burke tale Native Texan novelist James Lee Burke is a popular mystery writer with thirty-four novels and two collections of short stories. Burke, who now makes his home in Montana and Louisiana, is best known for the twenty novels featuring Louisiana deputy sheriff…