Tag: Texas author
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Lone Star Review: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A VOICE LIKE THAT?
“When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton The late Honorable Barbara Jordan grew up in Houston’s Fifth Ward. “She may have looked like other kids … acted like other kids,” Chris Barton writes. “But she sure didn’t sound like other kids. Not with that voice of hers.”…
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Lone Star Listens: Norma Elia Cantú
Texas — and the rest of the nation and world — is undergoing a rich resurgence of literature in all genres by Latino/Latina writers. One major contributor to this renaissance is Dr. Norma E. Cantú, who has written eloquently from creative and academic perspectives. She shares her long view with us during the “dog days”…
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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 Listens: Guadalupe Garcia McCall Translates the Wonder of the World
Interview with Texas YA author Guadalupe Garcia McCall
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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 Listens: Meg Gardiner on Gratitude and Stephen King
Interview with Texas author Meg Gardiner
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Lone Star Listens: Minutaglio and Davis tag-team new tome on dope doc Timothy Leary
Bill Minutaglio is the author of several nonfiction books. His journalism has appeared in many national and international newspapers and magazines, and his books include Dallas 1963 (Twelve); First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty (Times Books); City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic…
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Lone Star Book Reviews: CALLING MY NAME
Review of debut YA fiction Calling My Name by Houston’s Liara Tamani