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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.9.15   Brantleys relate story of their Ebola ordeal Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantley 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…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveRanger captain’s short life was anything but boring Ranger Captain Frank Jones was killed in 1893 on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. He was thirty-seven. Author Bob Alexander has penned a full-length biography (nearly 500 pages with notes) of Jones — Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild…

15th annual West Texas Book Festival, Sept. 21–26, 2015, announces featured authors The West Texas Book Festival, which will celebrate its 15th annual festival this year during the week of September 21-26 at the Abilene Public Library in Abilene, Texas, announced its lineup of authors this week. The festival seeks to celebrate books, literacy, 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,…

Macondo Workshop 20th Anniversary Celebration, San Antonio, July 22–26 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Sunday, July 26 Dallas Dallas Public Library – Oak Lawn, Marion Moore Hill will discuss and sign her Scrappy Librarian and Deadly Past mysteries, 1:30PM Houston B&N – Vanderbilt…

8.2.2015  Nikki Loftin: Back-to-back home runs for Austin YA author Nikki Loftin won the 2014 Writers’ League of Texas award for best young adult/middle grade fiction for her novel Nightingale’s Nest (Razorbill, 2014), a pretty notable accomplishment in itself — but what’s remarkable is that she won the same award for 2013 for The Sinister…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.2.15   Ranger captain’s short life was anything but boring Ranger Captain Frank Jones was killed in 1893 on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. He was thirty-seven. Author Bob Alexander has penned a full-length biography (nearly 500 pages with notes) of Jones — Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Cooking/Texas Ethredge, Elizabeth Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate Texas Review Press 978-1680030204 Paperback, 158 pages; spiral bound, $22.95, 2015 Reviewed by Rashda Khan Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate is a gem. The slim volume contains a bounty of riches in terms of words, wisdom, and recipes.…

7.26.15 News Briefs AROUND THE TOWN Texas Poetry Society hosts annual conference The 2015 Poetry Society of Texas Summer Conference, with the theme “Partying with Poetry Mardi Gras Style,” was held July 16-18 in Beaumont. At right, Birma Castle of Beaumont reads from the lectern. For more information on the Society, visit www.PoetrySocietyOfTexas.org. (Photos provided…

Born in Austin and raised in Buffalo Gap, Tiffany Harelik is Texas to the bone. The former Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-up Queen has explored the world over, capturing backstories from the backcountry and recipes from the range in efforts to preserve the culture of outdoor cuisine. From her first project, The Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook Series,…