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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole Student’s ride home becomes quite an ordeal Two novels from Texas writers mix aspects of faith and suspense and keep the action moving. A Ride Home is San Antonio author Pamela Howell’s debut novel (Westbow Press, $11.95 paperback). It seemed like a pretty straightforward deal to Kayla, a college student needing…

PEN awards shortlist includes Texas authors Michelle Newby Y’all will remember we reported on the 2015 PEN American Literary Awards longlist not long ago. Well the shortlist is out and Texas remains well represented. Finalists for the Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000) include Texas-born Cynthia Bond for (Hogarth, 2014), also an Oprah…

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,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.19.15 Student’s ride home becomes quite an ordeal Two novels from Texas writers mix aspects of faith and suspense and keep the action moving. A Ride Home is San Antonio author Pamela Howell’s debut novel (Westbow Press, $11.95 paperback). It seemed like a pretty straightforward deal to Kayla, a college student…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole Famous Texas trees featured in new volume First of all, I should say that (as far as I know) no famous Texas trees were sacrificed in the publishing of this column. Second, it seems appropriate to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of spring and the upcoming forty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day, as…

Thomas H. McNeely is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Epoch, and has been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories; What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers; and Algonquin Books’s Best of the South: From…

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 Our Lady of the Lake…

Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to Texas. She is the coauthor, with Barbara Brannon, of the West Texas novel The Paragraph Ranch. Joe…