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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.12.15Famous 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…

SUBSCRIBE Don’t miss a reading or a good read! Subscribe to our FREE weekly e-newsletter Second Annual Dallas Book Festival set for April 18 The Second Annual Dallas Book Festival (formerly the International Book Fair) will be held at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library Sat., April 18, from noon to 5 p.m. >> read…

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. 1. HOW TO ENTER THE CONTEST a. Follow the links and instructions to enter and submit your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, telephone number (optional), and a valid email address in the online entry form. Only one internet entry per person…

IS YOUR COMMUNITY A TOP STOP FOR TEXAS BOOK LOVERS?  Maybe you’ve preserved the birthplace of a well-known Texas writer. Maybe you host an annual gathering for authors and readers. Maybe you have a popular indie bookstore. Or maybe your locale was made famous in a Texas book. Watch this page as we launch LSLL’s…

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS / EDITORIAL CONTENT: • Lone Star Literary Life staff will research and rank our take on Texas’s Top Ten Beach Reads & Travel Books of all time. • We’ll include summaries, explain why we think these books are indispensable, and include book cover images with our writeups. • Participating advertisers will…

A veteran Texas-based journalist, John DeMers is the author of fifty published books on subjects from food and drink, to Texas culture, history, to a popular series of crime novels set in far West Texas. Most recently the author of Cordúa: Foods of the Americas (Bright Sky Press, 2013), John has published earlier works with…

RUSSELL D. KANE Texas Hill Country Wineries NONFICTION / FOOD AND WINE HISTORY Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing (Images of Modern America) January 19, 2015 Paperback, 978-1467132732, 96 pages (also available as ebook)$22.99 Reviewed by Rashda Khan for Lone Star Literary Life, 4.5.2015 If you’re a wine lover and a history buff, you’ll enjoy Texas…

from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission website 1932-1934 Judd Mortimer Lewis, Houston 1934-1936 Aline T. Michaelis, Austin 1936-1939 Grace Noll Crowell, Dallas 1939-1941 Lexie Dean Robertson, Rising Star 1941-1943 Nancy Richey Ranson, Dallas 1943-1945 Dollilee Davis Smith, Cleburne 1945-1947 David Riley Russell, Dallas 1947-1949 Aline B. Carter, San Antonio 1949-1951 Carlos Ashley, Llano…

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 Our Lady of the Lake…