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The most popular feature of Lone Star Lit’s first year is back! Just days after we launched Lone Star Literary Life, something happened to reaffirm our faith in the concept of a weekly newspaper about Texas books and authors. We announced that we’d be counting down the top ten literary destinations in our fair state,…

Austin BookPeople, CLANCY MARTIN speaking and signing Bad Sex and BRANDON CARO speaking & signing Old Silk Road, 4PM BookWoman, Award-winning poet and short story writer, ire’ne lara silva, will be offering 30-minute manuscript consultations, 12:30PM Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Leap & the Net Appears”, 4PM The Writing Barn, Plot, Pulse, Story: Discovery-Based…

1.17.2016Jeff Abbott’s killer-diller thrillers The week Jeff Abbott was interviewed for Lone Star Literary Life, he attended a Friends of the Library event in Mission Viejo, CA; did a signing at the Poisoned Pen in Phoenix; was interviewed live with Austin’s KOOP Radio Writing on the Air; spoke with Entertainment Weekly Radio on Sirius/XM, and…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.17.16   Lansdale 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…

Contributing Editor PUBLIC AFFAIRS Dr. Robert Brescia The Americanism of John Ben Shepperd Infinity Publishing Paperback, 390 pages, with numerous b/w images, 978-1-4958-0831-9, $22.95 November 1, 2015 John Ben Shepperd (1915–1990) was a Texas secretary of state and Texas attorney general in the 1950s. After he left state government in 1957, he continued in public…

University of Houston Libraries exhibition celebrates contributions of Arte Público Press A retrospective exhibit slated for Jan. 18 through June 30, 2016, Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, examines the press and its place in the larger context of Latina/o literature in the twentieth century. Founded in…

Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend returns to Nacogdoches Jan. 14–17 The Pulpwood Queen’s annual book club convention will take place Jan. 14 – 17 at Mast Hall in Nacogdoches. Founded in 2000 in Jefferson, Texas, by Kathy L. Patrick in her combined beauty salon and book store, Beauty and the Book, the organization now has nearly…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Dr. Robert Brescia, executive director of the John Ben Shepperd Public Leadership Institute at Odessa, Texas, is eminently qualified to speak about Americanism, leadership, ethics, and public service. A graduate of the Army War College and the Command & General Staff College as well…

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,…