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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,…

Keija Parssinen was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for twelve years before her family moved to Austin. She attended Princeton University, where she studied English literature and received a certificate from the Program for the Study of Women and Gender. She then earned her MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.15.15 El Paso football coach fought discrimination Gaines Baty has written an interesting book about his father’s impressive and principled success as a high school football coach in El Paso in the early 1950s. Champion of the Barrio (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover) tells the story of Buryl Baty, a…

Texas books from crime to music to war… and more Here’s a sampling of some new books of interest to Texans, reflecting the wide range of topics covered by Texas writers and publishers. Deliver Us by Houston true crime author Kathryn Casey concerns the series of mysterious deaths of more than 20 young women along…

The Texas Institute of Letters will honor acclaimed Austin writer Lawrence Wright as winner of its Lon Tinkle Award for an outstanding career in letters that has brought honor to the state. The award will be presented at TIL’s annual spring membership meeting in Houston. Wright was selected for that honor by TIL’s council and…

Neil Gaiman will be the author for the third One Book Odessa citywide read via a partnership with the Odessa Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Friends of the Ector County Library, the Education Foundation of Odessa, Odessa College, and the Ellen Noël Art Museum. Gaiman will appear at the Wagner Noël Performing Arts…

Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 3.8.2015   Texas books from crime to music to war… and more Here’s a sampling of some new books of interest to Texans, reflecting the wide range of topics covered by Texas writers and publishers. Deliver Us by Houston true crime author Kathryn Casey concerns the series…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com PATRICK DEARENThe Big Drift: A Novel FICTION TCU Press, trade paper, 978-0-87565-570-3 192 pp., $22.95 Reviewed 3.8.2015 by Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor The Big Drift by Patrick Dearen begins in the Middle Concho of west Texas during a blizzard in December 1884. Zeke Boles,…

Writing team turns out entertaining mysteries Three friends who write under the pen name of Miles Arceneaux have turned out their third murder mystery set on the Texas Gulf Coast. Ransom Island (Stephen F. Austin University Press, $19.95 paperback) features Rupert Sweetwater, owner of the Shady Palm Bar and Grill on Ransom Island, across the…

Austin International Poetry Festival April 10-11 The Naturalist Poet: Finding Inspiration for Poetry through Texas Natural HistoryFriday – ACC Rio Grande Campus – 11:00am to 1:00pmCategories: Poetry Writing, Texas Natural History, Science and Art Instructor: David Taylor PhD, University of Tennessee Having a basic knowledge of natural history allows a poet not only new ideas…