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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 2.14.16   Texas author introduces children to bird watching Huntsville birdwatcher Kermit Cummings has produced a book for young children about birds. He also has developed an interactive app, allowing children to hear the bird calls of the species featured in the book. A Backyard Birding Adventure: What’s in Your Yard? (Brown…

Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY Bills, E.R. Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror Eakin Press, an imprint of Wild Horse Media Group; paperback, 198 pages,  978-1-68179-017-6 Reviewed by Si Dunn Fort Worth writer E.R. Bills offers an unusual caution in his book’s preface: “If you’re fragile—white or black—this is not a…

Sachse Author Con accepting author applications for May 21 event SACSHE—Authors looking for an opportunity to promote their books are invited to apply for the upcoming Sachse Author Con event at the Sachse Public Library. The event, sponsored by the Sachse Public Library, is set for Sat., May 21, 2016, from noon to 4 p.m.…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com TEXAS HISTORY E. R. Bills Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror Fort Worth: Eakin Press, an imprint of Wild Horse Media Group Paperback, 198 pages, with numerous b/w images, 978-1-68179-017-6, $19.95 August 24, 2015 Reviewed by Si Dunn Fort…

NLong-Bin Chen’s The Book Garden sculpture exhibit, San Antonio, December 10, 2015 – February 20, 2016 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 In His Own Words: The Life and Work…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 2.7.16   Folklore book focuses on Texas food stories, recipes Every year the Texas Folklore Society produces an interesting collection of stories, usually around a central theme. This year’s book features Tales of Texas Cooking, full of good yarns and, of course, plenty of recipes — more than 120 of them (University…

Contributing Editor CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS / ART Cathey Graham Nickell with illustrations by Bill Megenhardt Arthur Zarr’s Amazing Art Car Twenty-Eight Creative, Feb. 2016 978-0996115001, hardcover, 40 pages, with color illus., $19.99 Houston, Texas, as Cathey Graham Nickell’s informative afterword to Arthur Zarr’s Amazing Art Car tells us, nearly three decades ago started the nation’s…

Lone Star Lit celebrates Black History Month 2016 One of the goals of Lone Star Literary Life is to shine a spotlight on the admirable diversity in Texas literature—a commitment that extends beyond demographics, but also to genre and publishing platform and approach. In this spirit, we’re pleased to highlight Black History Month in February…

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,…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Cathey Graham Nickell of Bellaire, Texas, a former public relations professional and mother of four, does not drive an art car herself, but she loves snapping photographs whenever she spots one. Although Arthur Zarr’s Amazing Art Car is Nickell’s first children’s book, she has…