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Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveCartoonist has a little fun with Texas history Readers of all ages can learn something about Texas history — and have fun doing it — in Merkel author Roger Moore’s book of Texas history cartoons, Texas, My Texas (Great Texas Line Press, $5.95 paperback). Moore, whose cartoons appear in about twenty-five…

IN HER OWN WORDS Bird selected for Meryl Streep Screenwriting Lab New York Women in Film & Television and the Iris film collective have selected twelve screenwriters for the inaugural year of Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab. The program, which is fully funded by Streep, provides script development for female writers over the age of forty.…

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,…

The Great Fables Wake, Austin, August 14 – 16 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Sunday, Aug. 9 Austin Garland Houston Round Rock The Woodlands B&N – Woodlands Mall, Natasha Preston signs Awake, 2PM Monday, Aug. 10 Apparently everyone is reading at home today.…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.16.15   Cartoonist has a little fun with Texas history Readers of all ages can learn something about Texas history — and have fun doing it — in Merkel author Roger Moore’s book of Texas history cartoons, Texas, My Texas (Great Texas Line Press, $5.95 paperback). Moore, whose cartoons appear in about…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveBrantlys relate story of their Ebola ordeal Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly and wife Amber tell the gripping story of their ordeal and their faith in Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic (with David Thomas, Waterbrook Press, $23 hardcover). The story,…

Bissinger kicks off month of literary/literacy events in Midland and Permian Basin, September 2015 Buzz Bissinger, author of the classic Friday Night Lights, returns to the Permian Basin in September and will be an active participant in many literary and literacy events in Midland and Odessa. Midland has a rich schedule of literary events 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,…

David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Sunday, Aug. 2 Enjoy reading at home! Monday, Aug. 3 Dallas The Wild Detectives, Jill Talbot will present her new book, The Way We Weren’t, 7:30PM Southlake B&N – Town Square, Author Jesper Jiang signing You Never Let…

H. G. “Buzz” Bissinger is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, the classic that inspired the acclaimed movie and television series. He is a longtime contributing editor for Vanity Fair and has written for the New York Times, the New…