Tag: Lone Star Review
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Lone Star Review: THE WINDOW TRAIL
In Big Bend National Park, the Window Trail is a 5.5-mile, out-and-back pathway that draws hikers, birders, and others to its rugged beauty. In J J Rusz’s engrossing, well-crafted new novel, “the Window” is other things, as well. It becomes the scene of an infamous suicide that is spotlighted in a best-selling book,…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher
Don Graham, whom the Dallas Morning News has called “our premier scholar and critic on Texas literature, films and pop culture,” is J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a writer-at-large with Texas Monthly magazine. He received the Carr P. Collins Prize for Best…
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Lone Star Review: The Man Who Caught the Storm
Review of The Man Who Caught the Storm by Dallas author Brantley Hargrove
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Lone Star Review: EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME
Isabel sees dead people. She and Martin were married on Día de los Muertos, “which no one gave much thought to in all the months of planning, until the bride’s deceased father-in-law showed up in the car following the ceremony.” Martin’s father, Omar, and his mother, Elda, crossed the Rio Grande while she…
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Lone Star Book Reviews: CALLING MY NAME
Review of debut YA fiction Calling My Name by Houston’s Liara Tamani
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Lone Star Review: A Good Girl
Fifty-two-year-old Grace Reiter is returning home to South Texas, “a place she spent a lifetime running from,” as her father, Henry, “the last surviving patriarch of a chaotic gene pool,” lies in a hospital bed dying from colon cancer and a heart “shriveled from disease and disappointment.” Grace is the middle child, the dutiful…
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Lone Star Reviews: ALL THE WIND IN THE WORLD
With the implosion of the cities, Sarah Jac and James become jimadors migrant workers harvesting maguey (also known as the century plant) on the ranches of the Southwestern United States in the not-too-distant future. An environmental cataclysm has devastated the country west of the Mississippi River. In conditions that put the Dust Bowl of…