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Austin Half Price Books – North Lamar, Anna Castle will sell and sign The Widows Guild: A Francis Bacon Mystery, 1PM Paramount Theatre, an evening with Deepak Chopra, 7PM Dallas B&N – Preston/Royal, Megan Tull signs The Passion Belief Method: Own Your Value and Earn Your Worth in Business, 1PM Half Price Books – Mother…

Above, clockwise from upper left: book cover; Buryl Baty in El Paso yard with son, Gaines, 1954; author Gaines Baty; the last picture taken of Coach Buryl Baty (far left) and Coach Jerry Simmang (second from the far right) on Oct. 6, 1954. with the Bowie Bears team. In the first weekend since June without…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.31.16   Author offers thoughts on Texas politics Mary Beth Rogers, who was Gov. Ann Richards’s campaign manager in the 1990s, offers suggestions to Democrats in her new book, Turning Texas Blue: What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America’s Reddest State (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99 hardcover). “What I’ve…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveMiles Arceneaux offers another gripping tale One of my favorite Texas authors — or should I say three of my favorite authors — is/are back with another fast-paced mystery novel. I’m talking about Miles Arceneaux, the nom de plume of Texas writers Brent Douglass, John T. Davis, and James R. Dennis.…

Harrigan leads off Highland Park’s 2016 Authors Live! series Feb. 4 One of the state’s leading and ongoing annual literary series, Authors Live! debuts Thursday, Feb. 4 at the Highland Park United Methodist Church with Texas author Stephen Harrigan presenting his book A Friend of Mr. Lincoln: A Novel. According to a starred review in…

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,…

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 Texas Seaport Museum Winter Lecture Series, Galveston, January 16 – 23 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.24.16   Miles Arceneaux offers another gripping tale One of my favorite Texas authors — or should I say three of my favorite authors — is/are back with another fast-paced mystery novel. I’m talking about Miles Arceneaux, the nom de plume of Texas writers Brent Douglass, John T. Davis, and James R.…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveLansdale wild west novel gets off to a fast start My favorite journalism professor used to say that if you had an hour to write a story, spend the first fifty minutes on the lead, or opening paragraph. He was exaggerating, of course, but his point was that if you don’t…