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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,…

Austin BookWoman, Anne Key reading from her book, Burlesque, Yoga, Sex and Love: A Memoir of Life Under the Albuquerque Sun, + poetry readings, 3PM Houston Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Tale-ing through Time: Jewish Storytelling in “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” with storyteller Rabbi Dan Gordon, 3PM San Antonio The Twig Book Shop, Megan Padalecki reading…

Pretty Enough for You has been described as a rollicking carnival of a debut novel for Cliff Hudder. It’s the kind of book that reminds you that literary fiction can be fun, so it seems only fitting that its author is our final front-page profile of the year, as we look back and forward at…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.27.15   Texas doctor relates bedside stories from his career Dr. Tom Hutton was no doubt a top-notch doctor during his more than thirty years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota. He is also a very gifted writer and storyteller, as he demonstrates in his memoir, Carrying the Black Bag: A…

Contributing Editor COOKING/TEXAS Vick, Frances Brannen, ed. Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies University of North Texas Press 978-1-57441-618-3 Hardcover,  $34.95; Dec. 1, 2015 Tales of Texas Cooking is a wonderful find for those who love recipes and the history…

Photographer Jeremy Enlow signs Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch, presents talk Dec. 20 in Fort Worth FORT WORTH – As discussions continue for the sale of the legendary 510,572-acre Waggoner Ranch, the future is still undetermined for what may or may not change for twenty-six cowboys at the largest ranch in the U.S. under one…

Cappy Lawton has designed, developed, and operated twenty-nine restaurants throughout Texas. After studying business and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and having a successful career as a corporate engineer, he entered the restaurant business. Lawton and his wife, Suzy, love food and travel and have spent many years traveling throughout Mexico. Today…

COOKING/TEXAS Frances Brannen Vick, editor Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies University of North Texas Press 978-1-57441-618-3 Hardcover, 352 pages with illustrations/photos; $34.95 Dec. 1, 2015 Tales of Texas Cooking is a wonderful find for those who love recipes and…

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,…

Austin Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Accidental Orgasms,” 3PM Houston Half Price Books – Westheimer/Montrose, local musician, author and inspirational speaker Undrai Fizer will sell and sign his philosophical book The Excuse-less Life: 34 Inner-Laws for Living Above Distraction, 1PM Last Concert Cafe, Transcendent Zero Press Holiday Shindig with poets Gabrielle Langley, Chris Wise,…