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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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HISTORICAL FICTION\/TEXANA<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Stuart Kerr<\/span><\/p>\n

Lamar\u2019s Folly: A Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas Tech University Press<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1682830185, 320 pages, $24.95<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Nearly 177 years after he ended his term<\/span> as second president of the Texas Republic, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar remains a controversial figure in Lone Star history.<\/p>\n

He is remembered for some good things: heroics during the Battle of San Jacinto; picking the tiny riverfront village of Waterloo (now Austin) as the republic\u2019s new capitol; and convincing the state legislature to set aside generous swaths of land to support public education.<\/p>\n

But, along the way, Lamar also became bitter enemies with another Texas Revolution hero, Sam Houston, first president of the republic. Unlike Houston, Lamar opposed Texas becoming part of the United States. Instead, he wanted to see the republic thrive and expand westward to the Pacific, to help strengthen its independence.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lone Star Lit launches Indiegogo campaign \u201918: Help us showcase more books, more authors, more ways in 2018!<\/h1>\n

Lone Star Literary Life covers the Texas literary scene like no one else,<\/span> week in and week out. Since 2015, we\u2019ve given Texas authors, booksellers, libraries, publishers, and readers a trusted platform of their own. With shrinking coverage devoted to books in mainstream media \u2014 and most of that focused on the same handful of national bestsellers \u2014 where were Texas authors to get noticed, and where were Texas readers to discover the books they crave? We\u2019ve stepped up to make sure the Lone Star State doesn\u2019t lose touch with its rich literary heritage, and that Texas books get their due.<\/p>\n

At the start of our second year, notable Texas literary figures gave us a boost by taking part in a testimonial video, produced by Doug Baum of Waco. We think our case holds up remarkably well \u2014 and we\u2019ve featured it in our 2018 campaign as well. Check out out, below.<\/p>\n

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We hope you’ll be able to spare a tiny bit of your budget to help take our coverage to the next level in 2018. We\u2019ve got some great new books coming up as perks, and some attractive discounts on book promotional packages as well.<\/p>\n

Visit the campaign site at https:\/\/igg.me\/at\/LoneStarLiterary<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks in advance, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Happy (Texas) reading in 2018<\/h1>\n

As announced last week, <\/span>\u201cTexas Reads\u201d columnist Glenn Dromgoole is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks (and catching up on some choice reading!)<\/p>\n

>> FROM TEXAS READS, 12.31.17<\/h1>\n

Big names:<\/span> Two best-selling books by Texas-related authors I should have gotten around to this fall, but didn\u2019t, are What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism<\/span> by Dan Rather<\/span> and Elliot Kirschner,<\/span> and Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life<\/span> by Jenna Bush Hager<\/span> and Barbara Pierce Bush.<\/span> I plan to read them early in the new year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019m going to take a short break from the column. I still have a good stack of Texas books to look through, and more will be arriving soon. I\u2019ll be back in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Happy reading in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Dutton Books<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-1019-8555-7, (also available as an e-book, an audiobook, a paperback large print, and on audio CD), 368 pgs., $26.00<\/p>\n

January 30, 2018<\/p>\n

Shannon Kerber wakes in the night and discovers her infant daughter crying<\/span> in the arms of a stranger seated on the living-room sofa. When Shannon\u2019s husband returns from a San Antonio Spurs game, she\u2019s gone, the baby cold and crying in the draft from the open front door. Shannon is the fifth abduction in the area in the last six months. Caitlin Hendrix, a newly minted special agent with the FBI\u2019s Behavioral Analysis Unit (the famous profilers), heads to fictional Solace, Texas, to hunt a hunter.<\/p>\n

Into the Black Nowhere: An UNSUB Novel<\/span> is Meg Gardiner\u2019s<\/span> second installment in her new UNSUB series of thrillers, soon to be a CBS television series.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flatiron Books<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-2501-6973-0, (also available as an e-book, as an audiobook, and on audio CD), 400 pgs., $26.99<\/p>\n

January 16, 2018<\/p>\n

Oliver Loving is seventeen \u2014 an awkward, lonesome, aspiring poet<\/span> with \u201ca nearly anaphylactic aversion to prolonged eye contact,\u201d in first-love with the mysterious new girl Rebekkah Sterling \u2014 when he walks into a high-school dance and never walks out. Hector, an enraged, deceived, despairing young man with a gun, cuts Oliver down, along with four others. Ten years later Oliver remains in a vegetative condition; one bullet has decimated his brainstem and, with it, his family.<\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s first neural exam in several years is days away. Eve, Oliver\u2019s mother, who visits her son daily, regards the exam with a \u201cdread that [is] tidal and annihilating.\u201d She clutches a hope that Oliver is still in that husk somewhere. To learn that he is not may snap the last thread of her sanity. The question in that room with Eve every day is, of course, <\/p>\n

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Lone Star Lit launches Indiegogo campaign \u201918: Help us showcase more books, more authors, more ways in 2018!\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/h1>\n

LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Author interviews by Kay Ellington<\/span><\/h1>\n

1.14.2018\u00a0 Minutaglio and Davis tag-team new tome on dope doc Timothy Leary<\/h1>\n

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Collaborating successfully on a writing project takes a special kind of talent<\/span> \u2014and hefty doses of patience, compromise, and careful time management. Texas writers <\/span>Bill Minutaglio<\/span>Steven L. Davis<\/span> have teamed up for a second nonfiction title from well-regarded publisher Twelve that has garnered critical praise. The authors joined forces as well for an email interview in this week’s Lone Star Lit, discussing their separate backgrounds and shared processes in <\/span>The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Bill, you were born in Brooklyn in the mid-1950s and grew up there. As an adult in the late seventies your varied and exciting experiences included earning a graduate degree from Columbia journalism school; interning at the United Nations; being a part of a government food distribution program for poor children in Harlem \u2014 and starting off as a beginning reporter for the <\/span>Abilene Reporter-News.<\/span> What made you decide to come to Texas, and what was it like adjusting to the Lone Star State?<\/span><\/p>\n

BILL MINUTAGLIO: <\/span>I was offered a job at the newspaper in Abilene when I was graduating from journalism school. I had never been west of the Mississippi before and thought it would be a wonderful, important adventure. It was the best decision I ever made, in many ways. I got my New York City ego kicked out of me, and I met so many great people. One of the people at my first newspaper in Abilene had been one of Buddy Holly\u2019s backup singers \u2014 how about that! I wound up covering rodeos, goat cook-offs, and a million things I knew nothing about. I learned how much I had to learn. It took me a long time to adjust, and I guess I still am [adjusting]. I love Texas, and every place I\u2019ve lived in.<\/p>\n

Steve, where did you grow up, and how did it influence your lifelong writing about iconoclasts?<\/p>\n

STEVE DAVIS: I grew up on the tail end of the 1960s in a working-class suburb of Dallas regarded as \u201cThe Pee Wee Football Capital of the World.\u201d I spent a lot of time cracking heads with other kids on the gridiron. In the classroom, football coaches\u2013posing\u2013as\u2013history teachers preached that noble coonskin-cap wearing Anglo-Americans had marched into the wilderness, vanquished evil enemies, and created a glorious paradise on earth. Well, you know, I believed all that.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span>Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 1.14.2018 <\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK<\/span><\/p>\n