Tag: Lone Star Lit
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Lone Star Listens: Robin Roe
Dallas-area author Robin Roe’s novel A List of Cages(Disney/Hyperion, 2017) — her first — was named one of the Best Young Adult Books of the Year by Goodreads, Chapters Indigo, EpicReads, BookPage, Powell’s Books, The Texas Library Association, News & Observer, and Buzzfeed. This highly praised book is her first commercial success, but…
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Lone Star Listens: Jesse Sublett
Above: Sublett with his wife, Lois Richwine, in 1983 (Richwine is currently a lifestyle blogger and senior account executive at the Austin Chronicle). Photo by Scott Von Osdol. When I first met Jesse Sublett in Austin at the Writer’s League of Texas conference, there was no mistaking who he might be. The pompadour,…
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Lone Star Listens: Octavio Quintanilla
This week, Lone Star Literary Life wraps up our National Poetry Month coverage with a profile of San Antonio poet and professor Octavio Quintanilla. He will serve as San Antonio’s fourth poet laureate, for a two-year term from 2018 to 2020. The first male to hold the position, Quintanilla is tasked with generating public…
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Lone Star Listens: William Wenthe
William Wenthe wasn’t a Texan to start with, but a quarter century of honing and teaching the craft of poetry here ought to qualify him as one by now. Of his four published volumes of verse, the first, Birds of Hoboken (1995) was published by the esteemed Orchises Press; its title signals his continuing…
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Lone Star Listens: Mary H. K. Choi chats about her YA hit EMERGENCY CONTACT
Interview with Texas-raised YA author