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COOKING/TEXAS Ethredge, Elizabeth Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate Texas Review Press 978-1680030204 Paperback, 158 pages; spiral bound, $22.95 May 7, 2015 Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate is a gem. The slim volume contains a bounty of riches in terms of words, wisdom, and recipes. The book features eleven Texas poets laureate — luminaries…

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,…

Writers’ League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat, Alpine, July 19-23 Macondo Workshop 20th Anniversary Celebration, San Antonio, July 22–26 DFW Writers Conference, Dallas, July 24–25 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15-July 25 Sunday, July 19 Austin…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.26.15   Writer gets creative in Texas alphabet book Writer Maria Kernahan and artist Michael Schafbuch have teamed up to produce a new, very colorful alphabet book, T is for Texas (Dry Climate Studios, $19.95 hardcover). The book explores some different topics than most Texas alphabet books. For example, B is for…

Contributing Editor Fiction (Mystery, Thriller) Mark Pryor The Reluctant Matador Seventh Street Books/Prometheus, 2015 Paperback, 978-1-63388-002-3 299 pgs., $15.95 Reviewed by Manning Wolfe Mark Pryor’s latest thriller featuring his recurring character, Hugo Marston, opens with a dead body floating in the Seine in Paris, France. It’s not his friend Bart Denum’s nineteen-year old-daughter, Amy, but…

AROUND THE TOWN Fadiman, Ehrenreich, Tizon featured at 2015 Mayborn Conference Literary journalist Anne Fadiman (above, signing books, and below, at lectern) was one of the keynote speakers for the eleventh annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, a forum for journalists, writers, readers, students, educators, and the general public to listen to, be inspired by 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,…

Manning Wolfe is an author and attorney residing in Austin, Texas. After many years of storytelling, Manning has written a legal thriller series involving an Austin-based Texas attorney. The first, Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs. Boots King, was the winner of the 2014 Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest. A graduate of Rice University…

San Antonio Indie Book Fest, July 12 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum Exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15 – July 25 Sunday, July 12 Austin Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Cosmic Casino,” 3PM Dallas Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff,…