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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 3.1.2015   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…

Cowboys survived rugged conditions in winter of 1884 Midland author Patrick Dearen’s latest novel, The Big Drift (TCU Press, $22.95 paperback), focuses on two cowboys—one white, one black—and the brutal conditions they endured during the blizzard of 1884 and the ensuing cattle roundup the next spring. Although the story is fiction, Dearen writes authoritatively of…

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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart? Zadie, Elizabeth, and Meredith are closing up the ice cream shop where they work when the men with guns appear. After, the men set the shop ablaze. “It grew hot, dark and wet…

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Gracing the cover of the University of Texas Press’s spring catalog is a trio of striking black-and-white photographic portraits—of one young actor over the course of a dozen years of his life. Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film showcases Austin director Richard Linklater’s monumental film undertaking, Boyhood, which is up for several categories in the 87th…

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.…

Matt Minor currently serves as a chief of staff in the Texas House of Representatives. A well-regarded public speaker, he has worked as a political campaign manager. He has authored official state publications, oversees syndicated editorials, and acts as district radio legislative commentator. His novels focus on current events and how they affect the lives…

By Barbara Brannon The beer—and the Austin evening—were cold but the room and the conversation was warm at the second annual TBF <3s Indies party last Monday, Feb. 23, at Austin’s Cheer Up Charlies. Ten Texas independent publishers of books and journals displayed their wares, talked with fans, and sold books among the packed space.…

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