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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.20.15   New Texas books: football, chili, WWII The publication of a new biography of former Texas Longhorns football star Freddie Steinmark coincides with the release of a movie based on his life. Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football by Bower Yousse and Thomas J. Cryan tells the story of Steinmark’s life and…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive New Texas Almanac features articles on food, wine 2016-17 Texas Almanac, published by the Texas State Historical Association, is jam-packed as usual with updated statistical and reference material — appropriate for the state’s official reference book. But each edition of the Almanac always includes several features highlighting different aspects of…

Dallas’s Deep Vellum brings home a triple crown of honors in December It’s been a banner week for Deep Vellum Publishing. The Dallas-based not-for-profit publisher of literature in translation, whose name is a nod to both the rich culture of one of Dallas’s most historic art districts and the legacy of fine books, has earned…

As 2015 slips to a close the editors of Lone Star Literary Life would like to say thank you to all of the authors who have written books about our state or set in our state, but we’d like pay special recognition this week to our Favorite Texas Nonfiction of 2015. What constitutes Texas nonfiction?…

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 BookPeople, A Very Special Storytime With Bestselling Author GEORGE SAUNDERS speaking & signing The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, 2PM Malvern Books, Vision + Voice Anthology Release Party, 2PM Dallas B&N – Preston/Royal, Danielle Shroyer signs Where Jesus Prayed: Illustrating the Lord’s Prayer in the Holy Land, 1PM Houston Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.13.15   New Texas Almanac features articles on food, wine 2016-17 Texas Almanac, published by the Texas State Historical Association, is jam-packed as usual with updated statistical and reference material — appropriate for the state’s official reference book. But each edition of the Almanac always includes several features highlighting different aspects of…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION John C. Kerr The Silent Shore of Memory: A Novel Texas Christian University Press Paperback, 978-0-87565-619-9 (also available as an ebook), 240 pgs., $22.95 February 24, 2016 Beginning in a makeshift Confederate Army hospital in the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg, we follow Lieutenant James Barnhill,…