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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,…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Armadillo Rising: Austin’s Music Scene in the 1970s, Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 – July 3, 2015 A Hemispheric Conversation: Queer/Feminist Independent Publishing Projects ‘Belleza y Felicidad’ and ‘Belladonna’ exhibit, Austin, April 14 – May 9 Sunday, May 3 Austin B&N…

For more than twenty-five years Denise Chávez and others put on the Border Book Festival in first Mesilla, New Mexico, then Las Cruces. She served as executive director. She received her bachelor’s degree from New Mexico State University and master’s in theatre from Trinity University, whose program was housed at the Dallas Theatre Center. While…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.3.15   Paperback mysteries offer more bangs for buck With hardcover mysteries by best-selling novelists priced in the $25-30 range, many readers prefer to wait for the mass market paperback edition to come out, usually a year or so later, priced at around $7 to $9. New paperbacks by several popular Texas…

Don’t miss a reading or a good read! Subscribe to our FREE weekly e-newsletter LONE STAR LISTENS interviews>> archiveAttica Locke: on Empire, activism, and Texas boots Kay Ellington, Editor & Publisher Houston-born author and screenwriter Attica Locke has recently added producer of a hit TV series, Empire, to her resume. Lone Star Literary Life caught…

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One Book, One City: Texans Read TogetherKay Ellington, Editor and Publisher Many Texas cities or regions in recent years have found it worth their while to host a community-wide reading program. College and university campuses find common reading experiences a great way for a freshman classes to bond. In our state a few years back,…

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,…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Armadillo Rising: Austin’s Music Scene in the 1970s, Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 – July 3, 2015 ARCHIZINES celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world, Houston, January 29 – April 17 Texas Writers: a Humanities Texas…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.26.15 Franklin Barbecue owner tells his story; new and reissued Texas cookbooks Franklin Barbecue in Austin opened its doors in 2009 and quickly became the most popular barbecue venue in the state. People line up outside the lunch-only restaurant for hours, hoping to get some brisket, ribs, or sausage before they…