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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 STAPLE! Independent Media Expo, Austin, March 7 -8 Sunday, March 8 Austin Monkeywrench Books, Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Revolutionary Women, 7PM Houston Barnes & Noble – Vanderbilt Square, Author George Arnold: The Cats of the C.I.A., 10AM Brazos Bookstore, Scott Dodson reads and…

LUBBOCK—While Texas is the nation’s second most populous state and boasts a robust industry in books and publishing (with nearly 250 chain and independent bookstores, 40 university presses and trade publishers, a growing community of authors and writers, and some of the nation’s largest book events), it has lacked a comprehensive news outlet dedicated to…

Most of the readers and writers we know, far from being the sort to only haunt the recesses of their town’s library or curl up on the couch when the sun’s shining, like to get out and visit the places they’ve read about. Or the places that inspire them. Or the places where other authors…

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Former Texas Highways photographer and photo editor J. Griffis Smith shares a fun selfie from the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday morning, Feb. 24, after being honored for his thirty years of amazing photos in Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas. State Rep. Richard Pena Raymond (right) sponsored House Resolution 532.…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Carl Jung explored the feminine and the masculine in a description of the energy we all manifest. Jungian psychologist James Hillman decreed that integration of these opposites is the goal of human development. But we live in a world that has repressed, confined, and…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Austin Book Fest, March 7 North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, March 7 Take 190 West, Killeen, March 7 STAPLE! Independent Media Expo, Austin, March 7 -8 Sunday, March 1 Austin BookPeople, Book Launch Party: Texas Authors, Poets, Artists speaking & signing Her Texas: Story,…

Katherine Center, the author of five novels about love and family: The Bright Side of Disaster, Everyone Is Beautiful, Get Lucky, The Lost Husband, and Happiness for Beginners, recently signed a three-book deal with St. Martin’s Press. Her books and essays have appeared in Redbook, People, USA Today, Vanity Fair, and Real Simple. People Magazine…

Sarah Negovetich knows you don’t know how to pronounce her name and she’s okay with that. Her first love is Young Adult novels, because at seventeen the world is your oyster. Only oysters are slimy and more than a little salty; it’s accurate if not exactly motivational. We should come up with a better cliché.…