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

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<\/span><\/span>TEXAS COOKING<\/p>\n

Paula Forbes, <\/span>with photography by Robert Strickland<\/span><\/p>\n

The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Deep in the Heart of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harry N. Abrams<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1419728938, 240 pages, $29.99<\/p>\n

March 20, 2018<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Angelina LaRue<\/p>\n

Good food and Austin are synonymous. <\/span>We often think of little restaurants around Austin with brightly colored oil cloths covering the tables. Fajitas sizzling on a hot cast iron plate, or long lines outside popular barbecue joints and food trucks, are all part of the Austin experience, as well.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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5.20.2018\u00a0 Artists offer paintings, photos, sculptures of horses<\/h1>\n

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We\u2019re not even halfway through 2018,<\/span> but two books already are vying for the title of most elegant Texas book of the year.<\/p>\n

The first is Horses of the American West: Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists<\/span> by Heidi Brady<\/span> and Scott White<\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $40 hardcover).<\/p>\n

The second? Well, I\u2019ll tell you about it next week.<\/p>\n

Horses of the American West<\/span> is a must-have coffee table book for anyone with a passion for horses.<\/p>\n

Brady and White have pulled together works by ten painters, five photographers, six sculptors, and three pen or pencil artists into a remarkable collection sponsored by West Texas A&M University as the first book in its American Wests series.<\/p>\n

The painters include Edgar Sotelo, Wayne Baize, Tim Cox, Dyrk Godby, William Matthews, Bob Moline, David Griffin, Mark Kohler, Kenneth Wyatt,<\/span> and Donna Howell-Sickles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographers represented are Bob Moorhouse, Ken Young, David Stoecklein, Peter Robbins,<\/span> and Wyman Meinzer.<\/span> Sculptors: Veryl Goodnight, Bruce Greene, Rick Jackson, Greg Kelsey, T. D. Kelsey,<\/span> and Harold Holden.<\/span> And drawings by Brenda Murphy, Brian Asher, <\/span>and Woodrow Blagg<\/span> round out the list.<\/p>\n

Each artist is profiled and quoted extensively, with a selection of several of his or her works, most of them in color except for the black and white drawings.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the artists,\u201d the authors write, \u201cstarted as ranch hands who worked at night or in their spare time to produce their works of art. Others developed their skills in format art settings but were drawn to Western art because of the genuine qualities it encompasses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese artists come from an amazing variety of backgrounds and experiences, including rodeo cowboy, rancher, predator hunter, preacher, pilot, saddle maker, and singer-songwriter, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey display a wide range of personalities, from shy to very outgoing, but they share a common humility, a trait frequently observed in those with a deep appreciation for the way of life represented in these pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The authors note that a common theme is the importance of the image of the horse \u2013 especially in motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince at least the days of Remington and Russell,\u201d they write, \u201cthe dynamic and explosive action of the bucking horse, in particular, has been a recurrent theme in Western art. Many of these artists are drawn to the theme of the cowboy trying to control the powerful horse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artists also share a passion for preserving Western heritage by paying attention to details, values, and traditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs such, their great respect for the horse and its central role as a partner in this tradition is seen throughout the book,\u201d Brady and White conclude.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/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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<\/span><\/span>2018 TEXAS BOOKISH DESTINATIONS<\/h1>\n

Can you name this literary place in the Lone Star State?<\/h1>\n

Okay, one last chance at the prize, before National Poetry Month comes to an end April 30!<\/span><\/p>\n

Admit it: bookfans love traveling almost as much as they love reading itself.<\/span> Beginning March 4, 2018, Lone Star Literary Life will roll out #10 through #6 in our annual list of Top Texas Bookish Destinations, for readers who want to visit the settings of their favorite books, the birthplaces and haunts of favorite authors, and hot spots for book buying, readings, and other literary activity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But throughout Texas\u2019s 268,597 square miles, there are also lots of out-of-the-way points of interest that we don\u2019t always have space to cover in our Top Ten pages.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watch this space each week for a new bookish place that you\u2019ll want to add to your own travel list. Be the first to email us with the correct identification, and win a prize!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This week, we continue with a bookish place that\u2019s located in 2017\u2019s #2 Top Bookish Destination. There\u2019s plenty of poetry in this literary-rich city, but there\u2019s a Poet Tree, too. Can you name the city? And extra credit for telling our readers the neighborhood or street where they can find it, too.<\/p>\n

Email us at<\/span> info@LoneStarLiterary.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> with the specific right answer,<\/span> and we’ll send you a free copy of Literary Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LAST MONTH\u2019S PHOTO<\/span> (below<\/span>) was correctly identified as the Capitol Gift Shop, inside the state capitol building in Austin. Congratulations \u2014 your prize is on the way!<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span> Twig\u2019s Top Ten Bestsellers<\/h1>\n

April 2018<\/h1>\n

What are Texans reading these days, you ask? <\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s newest regular feature is a monthly list of trending titles at the <\/span>Twig Book Shop,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a leading independent bookseller in San Antonio. Click on any title for the Buy link. And we’ll also include a hotlink to related content in Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter F. Drucker,<\/span>1 HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing Yourself\u00a0 <\/span> 978-1633694477 (<\/span>reviewed in Lone Star Lit <\/span><\/a><\/span>Jan. 21, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Paulo Coehlo,<\/span>The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary Edition <\/span>978-0062390622<\/span><\/p>\n

Jen Sincero<\/span>You Are a Badass <\/span> 978-0762490547<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence Wright<\/span>The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11 <\/span> 978-1400030842<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernest Cline,<\/span>Ready Player One\u00a0 <\/span>978-0307887436<\/span><\/p>\n

Octavio Quintanilla<\/span>If I Go Missing<\/span>978-0941720359<\/span><\/p>\n

Zora Neale Hurston<\/span>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/span>\u00a0 978-0060199494<\/span><\/p>\n

Laurie Ann Guerrero<\/span>A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying<\/span>\u00a0 978-0875656878<\/span><\/p>\n

James Donovan<\/span>Blood of Heroes <\/span>\u00a0 978-0316053747<\/span><\/p>\n

Maya Angelou,<\/span>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u00a0 <\/span>0375507892<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1956 a movie called Giant depicted Texas in a larger-than-life narrative.<\/span> Now, more than six decades years later, author <\/span>Don Graham<\/span>, one of Texas’s premier chroniclers of culture, has published a book that shares fascinating back stories behind a film that continues to capture the imagination of the Lone Star State. Graham talked with Lone Star Lit via email about the myths and realities of the legendary film, and how he came to write about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Where did you grow up, Don, and how would you describe those days?<\/p>\n

DON GRAHAM: <\/span>I was born on a cotton farm in Collin County, near Lucas, a small community consisting of two churches, two stores, a cotton gin, and a school. My first three years of education were in that schoolhouse in Lucas, with eight grades in one room and high school in another. I learned a lot about Texas history, grammar, and perhaps less so, penmanship. Altogether, that world was as different from modern-day Collin County as one can imagine. When I was eight, my family moved to McKinney, and three or four years later, to Carrollton, where I attended high school. So my roots were both rural and suburban.<\/p>\n

When did you first pursue being a writer, and what was the outcome?<\/p>\n

I loved to read from very early on, and in college as an English major I wrote a lot of papers and later in grad school longer critical essays that I began to publish in scholarly journals. My dissertation on the writer Frank Norris was published, but I had grown tired of academic writing and in 1983 I wrote a very different kind of book, Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas, <\/span>in a personal voice.<\/p>\n

What do you consider to be your first big break as an author?<\/p>\n

Although by the late \u201980s I had published a number of books, my 1989 biography, No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy,<\/span> published by Viking, marked a new, more national phase than small press or university press books about Westerns or Texas literature.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News<\/span> has called you \u201cOur premier scholar and critic on Texas literature, films and pop culture.\u201d For years you have been a contributing editor at Texas Monthly and have written much about the Texas persona through art and culture. But perhaps, your most ambitious effort has been your latest book. Can you tell our readers about Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film?<\/span><\/p>\n

My new book is a narrative account of the personalities and talents that went into the success of this epic movie. Frankly, I find some film books boring because of their extensive coverage of script changes and the like, so I decided to concentrate on the drama of the private lives and the on-screen performances of both major and minor figures. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 5.20.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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