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FEATURED:\u00a0 CALLS FOR ENTRIES<\/h1>\n

7.16.17\u00a0 PEN Texas invites all writers in the Southwestern states <\/span>to participate in the 2017 contest for excellence in writing in the categories of Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, and Literary Translation. The winner in each category will receive a $500 prize, co-sponsored by PEN Center USA and PEN Texas. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Knight on the Texas Plains by Linda Broday Visit with Linda August 15\u201324, 2017<\/span><\/h1>\n

8\/15\/17 Guest Post Forgotten Winds<\/p>\n

8\/16\/17 Review The Librarian Talks<\/p>\n

8\/17\/17 Character Interview Books and Broomsticks<\/p>\n

8\/18\/17 Review Margie’s Must Reads<\/p>\n

8\/19\/17 Notable Quotable StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

8\/20\/17 Author Interview Reading by Moonlight<\/p>\n

8\/21\/17 Review CGB Blog Tours<\/p>\n

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Wheels of Justice by Vickie Phelps Visit with Vickie August 16\u201320, 2017<\/span><\/h1>\n

8\/16\/17 Hall Ways Blog<\/p>\n

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8\/16\/17 My Book Fix Blog<\/p>\n

8\/17\/17 The Page Unbound<\/p>\n

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8\/18\/17 A Novel Reality<\/p>\n

8\/18\/17 Texas Book Lover<\/p>\n

8\/19\/17 Forgotten Winds<\/p>\n

8\/19\/17 Momma on The Rocks<\/p>\n

8\/19\/17 Missus Gonzo<\/p>\n

8\/20\/17 StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

8\/20\/17 Margie’s Must Reads<\/p>\n

8\/20\/17 Books and Broomsticks<\/p>\n

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Comfort Plans by Kimberly Fish Visit with Kimberly through August 14, 2017<\/span><\/h1>\n

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8.13.2017\u00a0 Johnston returns to his Texas roots as director of the Michener Center for Writers at UT\u2013Austin<\/h1>\n

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Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally best-selling novel <\/span>Remember Me Like This,<\/span> which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and winner of the 2015 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns Prize. He is also the author of the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories. After directing the creative writing program at Harvard University for eleven years, he is now director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He spoke with LSLL via email about his books, skateboarding, the Michener Center, and the best fish tacos in Corpus Christi.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Congratulations on being named the director of the Michener Writing Center and welcome back home to Texas, Bret. Many of the people who know your best-selling fiction may not realize that you actually grew up on the Texas coast. What was it like growing up in Corpus?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you! I\u2019m thrilled to be coming back, and more than a little shocked.<\/p>\n

In many ways, growing up in Texas was ideal. It\u2019s a unique part of the country, with its own codes and culture, its own temperament and landscape, and in ways that have nothing to do with politics, I still view the world through the lens of where I was raised. What it lacked, though, was any kind of real interest in the arts, certainly the literary arts. My parents were always reading, so I was always surrounded by books, but when I stepped outside our house, no one really cared about reading or writing. That was disorienting, confusing. I had a few invaluable teachers along the way, though, and they gave me reason to hope, reason to believe that there might be some kind of life with books. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events<\/h1>\n

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 8.13.2017
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK: Marfa, Dallas, Austin<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Mon., Aug. 14<\/span>\u00a0 B&N – Preston\/Royal, Come meet author David Collins, as well as Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, the subjects of his book Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Tues., Aug. 15<\/span>\u00a0 Interabang Books, Joe Tone discusses and sigsn Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON Tues., Aug. 15<\/span>\u00a0 Murder By the Book, Lisa Scottoline will sign and discuss Exposed, the newest book in the Rosato and Associates Series, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., Aug. 16\u00a0 <\/span>BookPeople, RENEE CASTEEL COOK and TIFFANY HARELIK speaking & signing Best of Trailer Food Diaries, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>ABILENE\u00a0 Thurs., Aug. 17 <\/span>\u00a0 The Grace Museum, Joe W. Specht discusses and signs his newly revised and expanded edition of Abilene in Song: The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Aug. 17 Blanton Museum of Art, Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday: “Writing about Myth” with Sheila Black, Dr. Richard R. Flores, P.J. Hoover, and Dr. Helena Woodard, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Aug. 18\u00a0 <\/span>BookPeople, WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS presents Summer Writing Workshop Showcase and book signing with instructors Carol Dawson, Charlotte Gullick, Donna Johnson, Sasha West, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AMARILLO\u00a0 Sat., Aug. 19\u00a0 Chase Building, Texas High Plains Writers workshop with Mike Akins and Tex Thompson, 9AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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LONE STAR LIT\u2019S BOOKISH TOUR OF TEXAS: DALLAS<\/h1>\n

Dallas\u2019s new indie bookstore comes in with a bang<\/h1>\n

Lone Star Lit toured North Texas last week, with stops at a couple of university presses<\/span> as well as the new independent bookstore on Preston Road that\u2019s sending readers scrambling for their dictionaries. (Look it up \u2014 you’ll be rewarded with a rich history of the coined punctuation mark.)<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Interabang Books<\/span> swept onto the Dallas bookselling scene earlier this summer with a soft opening and has already hosted a number of events with big-name authors. They\u2019re thrilled to have generous shelf space \u2014 as well as audience capacity for readings and signings.<\/p>\n

Interabang\u2019s 5,000-square-foot store at the southeast corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane carries titles in a wide variety of categories with a special focus on literature and children\u2019s books. The well-curated children\u2019s section hosts storytime at 11 am on Wednesdays. >> READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lone Star Listens compilation available Sept. 15, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n

Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n

Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n

Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n

edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by<\/p>\n

Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n

Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Fall 2017<\/p>\n

360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n

Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n

Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n

As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n