Tag: Lone Star Literary Life
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Sandra Cisneros awarded 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
From the judges: “Sandra Cisneros has said that she writes because ‘the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.’ In a formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir, and poetry, Cisneros brings us astounding and lyrical voices from burning, maligned, devastated, as well as…
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The Outlaw’s Mail Order Bride by Linda Broday
Genre: Historical Western Romance Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Publication Date: January 29, 2019 Number of Pages: 384 pages ABOUT THE BOOK: When the West was wild, and man’s law favored the few, extraordinary women could be found…in the heart of an outlaw. Outlaw Clay Colby is tired of living one step in front…
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Happy 4th Birthday to Lone Star Lit
Happy 4th birthday, Lone Star Lit! Lone Star Literary Life was launched from the hinterlands of West Texas on February 2, 2015. Since then, our readers have multiplied faster than the state’s favorite herbivorous burrowing rodent (well, maybe). Thanks for growing with us, and watch as we create even more ways for readers and writers…
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Author Harold Eggers, Jr.
Music industry exec and author Harold Eggers, Jr. talks about twenty years on the road with Townes Van Zandt.
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Long-awaited new novel from Elizabeth McCracken
LITERARY FICTION Elizabeth McCracken Bowlaway: A Novel Ecco Hardcover, 978-0-0628-6285-3 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 384 pgs., $27.99 February 5, 2019 “They found a body in the Salford Cemetery, but aboveground and alive.” Thus is the hook set. Bertha Truitt appears to have dropped from the sky—there are no footprints in the…
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Houston judge rules in favor of Drag Queen Story Hour
Houston—Inside the library, the storytellers sang songs and mimicked the noises of crickets and rainfall while reading The Armadillo’s Dream, a picture book written by Dennis Arrowsmith, touring programs manager for the Houston Grand Opera. Outside the library, two groups faced each other behind sets of barricades. Rainbow flags wrapped around one set, inside of which activists for the LGBTQ community held up signs…
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Colleyville-based poet Tarfia Faizullah awarded major artist grant
CHICAGO—The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced its 2019 USA Fellows last week. Among the forty-five artists and collectives, working across disciplines, is Tarfia Faizullah, a poet who is based in Colleyville, Texas and grew up in Midland, Texas. Each grantee will receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash award. Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018)…
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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 02.03.2019
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Texas Institute of Letters announces new members
The seventeen newly elected members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) are: three-time-Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Wes Anderson (Houston); playwright and Broadway actor Eugene Lee (San Marcos); poets Rosa Alcalá (El Paso), Robin Davidson (Houston), and Carrie Fountain (Austin); fiction writers Tim Z. Hernandez (El Paso), Wendell Mayo (Corpus Christi/Ohio), and Ito Romo (Laredo/San Antonio); scholars…