Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Contributing Editor
Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole
>> archiveCookbook features Texas restaurant recipes
Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes: A Cookbook & Restaurant Guide by Anita Musgrove (Great American Publishers, $18.95 paperback) offers up favorite recipes from about 125 Texas cafes, diners, and eateries. Most of them are, as the book’s title suggest, off the beaten path, although the state’s metropolitan areas are represented as well.
Musgrove, who has produced similar restaurant recipe books about Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, divides the state into three regions, certainly a departure from most Texas guidebooks or cookbooks. Her regions are northwestern, eastern and southern, but “northwestern” stretches all the way from El Paso to Texarkana! Maybe she means north/western.
Restaurants are listed alphabetically by town in each region, so the very first one in the book is Bogie’s Downtown Deli in Abilene, taking note of four of its specialty sandwiches.
Other West Texas dining choices include Owl Drug Store in Coleman, Circle M Barbecue in Eastland, Star Beau’s in Comanche, the Butcher’s Block in Snyder, River Smith’s and Tommy’s Famous Burgers in Lubbock, Silo House and Zentner’s Daughter in San Angelo, and Sugar Creek Grill in Big Lake.
This book may make you want to head out on your own gastronomic tour of Texas. And what a far-ranging tour it could be, from Peggy’s on the Bayou Cajun Café in Orange to Ted’s Restaurant on South Padre Island to Baby Butt’s BBQ in Perryton, and dozens in between.
Or you could just stay home and try out the recipes yourself.
Mystery series: Since retiring as longtime director of TCU Press, Fort Worth author Judy Alter has turned her talent toward writing murder mysteries.
Murder at Peacock Mansion, the third book in her Blue Plate Café mystery series, again features small town Texas café owner Kate Chambers, who gets caught up in trying to solve a thirty-year-old murder case and finds herself perhaps the killer’s latest target (Alter Ego Publishing, $13.99 paperback).The rousing tale also includes recipes served at the café, such as enchilada casserole, sticky buns, American lasagna and cheeseburger soup. The mystery series blends two of the author’s passions — writing and cooking.
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Glenn Dromgoole’s latest book is More Civility, Please. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.
>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.
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Glenn Dromgoole’s latest book is More Civility, Please. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.
>> Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TEXAS BOOKSTORES: FINALISTS WEEK
Tell us MORE about your favorite bookstore!
Texas has nearly 300 bookstores, and we’ve listed most of them on our ballot.
Last week, readers statewide cast ballots (with a couple of write-ins), narrowing this list to 43 finalists. *In some cases, voters wrote in their favorite chain bookstore in a particular city, but didn’t indicate which branch, so we included them all in the list of finalists.)
This week, vote for your one top favorite from the list below. And feel free to email and tell us what makes them special. We’ll count down the results JUNE 12 and 19!. >>READ MORE
Bookish Texas event highlights 5.15.2016
>> GO this week Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor
Mannoscript by Chris Manno
Chris Manno has been an airline pilot at American Airlines since 1985 and a captain since 1991, based at DFW Airport. His cartoons have been popular worldwide in aviation trade publications as well as in crew training materials for United, American, British Airways, and Lufthansa flight crews. He has also taught composition and rhetoric at Texas Wesleyan University and English and composition at Texas Christian University. He has a book of cartoons, Flight Crew Like You (CreateSpace, 2014) and a new novel out, East Jesus (White Bird Publications, March 2016). We welcome him to the pages of Lone Star Literary Life.
Texas bookstore FINALISTS
May 2016
- Abilene: Texas Star Trading Company
- Alpine: Front Street Books
- Archer City: Booked Up Inc.
- Austin: 5th Dimension
- Austin: BookPeople
- Austin: BookWoman
- Austin: Half Price Books—North Lamar #005
- Austin: Malvern Books
- Austin: South Congress Books
- Brenham: The Book Nook
- Brownsville: Barnes and Noble
- Dallas: Barnes & Noble #2884 Lincoln Park
- Dallas: Half Price Books—Texas Flagship Store #001
- Dallas: The Wild Detectives
- Denton: Recycled Books
- Frisco: Barnes & Noble #2060
- Galveston: Galveston Bookshop
- Gladewater: Gladewater Books
- Houston: Blue Willow Bookshop
- Houston: Brazos Bookstore
- Houston: Half Price Books*
- Houston: Kaboom Books
- Houston: Katy Budget Books
- Houston: Lifeway
- Houston: Murder by the Book
- Houston: River Oaks Bookstore
- Killeen: Hastings
- Lexington: 40 Acre Wood
- Lubbock: Barnes and Noble
- Marfa: Marfa Book Company
- Mesquite: Lucky Dog Books/Paperbacks Plus
- Midland: Barnes and Noble
- Post: Ruby Lane Books
- San Angelo: Cactus Book Shop
- San Antoinio: Barnes and Noble LaCantera
- San Antonio: Barnes and Noble San Pedro, across from North Star Mall
- San Antonio: Half Price Books*
- San Antonio: Half Price Books Bandera Point
- San Antonio: Half Price Books—Broadway/Brackenridge Park #010,
- San Antonio: Imagine Books & Records
- San Antonio: Twig Bookshop
- South Padre Island: Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard
- Tyler: Barnes & Noble #2624
If you’re an email newsletter subscriber, we’ll be sending you a ballot this week. If you’d like to vote—and you’re not a newsletter subscriber—simply send us your email at info@lonestarliterary.com
And tell us about your favorite bookstore, like this LSLL reader did this week: Front Street Books, Alpine TX. Since 1994 this store has been the best! For a small town, it has plenty of new bestsellers, whether fiction, nonfiction, nature, or regional. And is has a used book section, too. Coffee, newspapers await the visitor. But watch it. A sign on the front door advises against talking on your cell phone.” —Vivian Morrow Jones
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Sachse Author Con slated for May 21
SACSHE—The Sachse Public Library’s annual Author Con is slated for Sat., May 21, 2016, from noon to 4 p.m.
The kind of autograph-seekers who will descend on the Sachse Public Library on Saturday, May 21 and eagerly approach the 30 personalities gathered there will not be your typical sports or showbiz fans, says Library Manager Mignon Morse.
“These autograph-seekers will more likely prefer reading a book over attending a game or a concert,” she said. “And, the event is really more of a book-signing than an autograph session. The excitement, though, will be the same.”
The Sachse Library is presenting the second annual Author Con on May 21 from noon to 4 p.m. The current list of local and area authors who will attend, showcase their work, offer them for sale, and sign them include 30 local and area published writers. Authors will accept cash or checks for the book sales.
The library is located at 3815 Sachse Road, Building C in the City Hall complex. >>READ MORE
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NOW ON TOUR: FICTION
EVERY BRIDE HAS HER DAY
by Janice Thompson
Visit with Janice May 17–31
5/17 StoreyBook Reviews — Review
5/18 Book Crazy Gals — Author Interview #1
5/19 Forgotten Winds — Guest Post #1
5/20 Country Girl Bookaholic — Review
5/21 Books and Broomsticks — Excerpt
5/22 The Crazy Booksellers — Promo
5/23 All for the Love of the Word — Review
5/24 Missus Gonzo — Author Interview #2
5/25 Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books– Promo
5/26 Byers Editing Reviews & Blog — Review
5/27 Hall Ways Blog — Author Interview #3
5/28 A Novel Reality — Guest Post #2
5/29 The Page Unbound — Review
5/30 Margie’s Must Reads — Promo
5/31 It’s a Jenn World — Review
NOW ON TOUR: FICTION
EAST JESUS by Chris Manno
VISIT WITH CHRIS THROUGH MAY 19, 2016
5/15 A Novel Reality – Author Interview #1
5/16 Book Chase – Review
5/17 All for the Love of the Word – Guest Post #2
5/18 My Book Fix Blog – Author Interview #2
5/19 Hall Ways Blog – Review
CONTINUING ON TOUR: TEXANA
How to be a Texan by Andrea Valdez
VISIT WITH ANDREA THROUGH MAY 17, 2016
5/15 Hall Ways Blog — Review
5/16 Byers Editing Reviews & Blog — Promo
5/17 Missus Gonzo — Review
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Her One and Only by Becky Wade
RECENTLY ON TOUR: INSPIRATION
Prayerful Passages by Jack H. Emmett
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