{"id":237,"date":"2018-12-31T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:22:44","slug":"lone-star-book-reviewsby-michelle-newby-nbcccontributing-editor-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"u33168-16\"><span id=\"u33168-10\"><span id=\"u33169\"><span id=\"u33170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"73\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/newby%2c%20michelle_headshot_sm.jpg\"  id=\"u33170_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"u33168-11\">Michelle Newby<\/span> is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in <span id=\"u33168-13\">Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, <\/span>and <span id=\"u33168-15\">The Collagist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u33168-26\">Lone Star Book Reviews <br \/>of Texas books appear weekly <br \/>at <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LoneStarLiterary.com<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"u33172\">\n<div id=\"u33173-15\">\n<p><span id=\"u33375\"><span id=\"u33372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"103\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/hudder%2c%20cliff_photo%20sm.jpg\"  id=\"u33372_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><span>Cliff Hudder<\/span> received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Houston in 1995. He has been an archaeological laborer, a film and video editor, a photographer, air compressor mechanic, electrical lineman, and educator. In addition to articles on regional and American literature, his short stories have appeared in several journals, including <span id=\"u33173-3\">Alaska Quarterly Review<\/span>, the <span id=\"u33173-5\">Kenyon Review, <\/span>and the <span id=\"u33173-7\">Missouri Review.<\/span><span> His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards, the Peden Prize, and the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His novella, <\/span><span>Splinterville, <\/span><span>won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award, and his novel, <\/span><span>Pretty Enough for You, <\/span><span>was released by Texas Review Press in July of 2015. He teaches English at Lone Star College-Montgomery in Conroe, Texas, and is presently at work on a PhD in English at Texas A&#038;M University.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}