Tag: Lone Star Literary Life
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Review: Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
The unforgettable story of Laika the Soviet space dog, the Cold War, and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Photography book will make you hungry for BBQ
If you think Texas BBQ: Small Town to Downtown (University of Texas Press, $39.95 hardcover) is a book of barbecue recipes, you would be wrong. There are no recipes. Rather, Texas BBQ is a colorful, updated photographic tour by barbecue lover Wyatt McSpadden, and it will make you want to visit the 48 establishments pictured…
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Lilly Gonzalez is new executive director of San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio—The San Antonio Book Festival announced Monday, January 21, that Lilly Gonzalez will serve as the organization’s new executive director. Gonzalez joined the festival as communications director in 2015 and previously served as deputy executive director. Gonzalez takes over from founding executive director Katy Flato, who will assume the role of chairman of…
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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 01.27.2019
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Texas literature receives multiple 2018 NBCC Award nominations
New York, NY—Tuesday, January 22, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced its 31 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the outstanding books of 2018, and Texas makes a strong showing. The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Little, Brown) by Mark Lamster is nominated…
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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 01.20.2019
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Review: Before We Were Strangers
Before We Were Strangers is a stunning romantic thriller that questions the love and loyalty of parents, siblings, and friends.
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Cookbook offers plenty of down-home Texas recipes
Maybe a New Year’s Resolution would be to cook several new dishes in 2019. Not necessarily anything wild and crazy, just something you haven’t tried before. Texas Hometown Cookbook by Sheila Simmons and Kent Whitaker (Great American Publishers, $18.95 paperback) offers dozens of down-home recipes in a colorful new volume. They divide…
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Texas kid lit wins multiple awards
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (Cinco Puntos Press) by David Bowles was named as an honor book for the Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature in the Young Readers category. A Mexican-American author from deep South Texas, Bowles is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.…
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New York Times bestselling authors descend on Fort Worth for final ConDFW
New York Times bestselling authors descend on Fort Worth, February 15-17, 2019 for final ConDFW Fort Worth—Hugely popular writer Charlaine Harris (HBO’s “True Blood,” NBC’s “Midnight, Texas”), who lives in Central Texas, and author Yoon Ha Lee (Dragon Pearl from Disney-Hyperion), who was born in Houston, headline the eighteenth and final ConDFW Conference (www.condfw.org) at…