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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 to our Favorite Texas Fiction of 2015. We winnowed down an internal list…

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 John C. Kerr is a native of Houston, Texas, and currently lives with his wife Susan in San Antonio. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied history, literature, and poetry, and of the University of Texas Law School. The Silent Shore…

Addison Dunn Brothers Coffee, Victoria Alexander signs Locus Amoenus, 6PM Houston Pine Presbyterian, Robert Westheimer presents When God Calls, How Do You Answer? Becoming a Spiritual Entrepreneur, 9AM San Antonio B&N – Ingram Festival, Melissa Weathersby signs Are You Arresting Your Blessing?, 1PM B&N – La Cantera, The Christmas Portrait book signing with Phyllis Nichols,…

Born and raised in Abilene, Texas, Mary Helen Specht has a B.A. in English from Rice University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College, where she won the department’s fiction award. Her writing has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Colorado…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.6.15   New biographies focus on two presidents from Texas Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and George H. W.  Bush are the subjects of two important new biographies making national best-seller lists. The Johnson book — Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President by Betty Boyd…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY Bower Yousse and Thomas L. Cryan Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football University of Texas Press, hardcover, 978-1-4773-0821-9, 287 pages, $24.95, September 2015 Reviewed by Si Dunn Freddie Steinmark was one of his team’s smallest players when the University of Texas Longhorns battled their way to college football’s…

Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair, Austin, Dec. 12 Love reading? Coffee and treats? Holiday cheer? Looking for the perfect present for that bibliophile on your gift list? Then come by the Byrne-Reed House (1410 Rio Grande Street, Austin) for Humanities Texas’s seventh annual Holiday Book Fair. On Saturday, Dec. 12 from 10 am– 1 pm,…

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,…

Si Dunn is an Austin writer and book reviewer. His reviews appear periodically in the Dallas Morning News and on the Internet. Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Bower Yousse is the coauthor of Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football (University of Texas Press, 2015). A close friend and teammate of…