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

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

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Texas doctor relates bedside stories from his career<\/h1>\n

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Dr. Tom Hutton was no doubt a top-notch doctor<\/span> during his more than thirty years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota. He is also a very gifted writer and storyteller, as he demonstrates in his memoir, Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist\u2019s Bedside Tales<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, $27.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Hutton is a past president of the Texas Neurological Society and taught at the Texas Tech School of Medicine before retiring in 2001 and moving to his ranch near Fredericksburg.<\/p>\n

His stories show compassion, insight, and humor as he deals with real-life patients facing life-and-death challenges.<\/p>\n

Hutton grabs the reader\u2019s attention right off with \u201cOf Middle Linebackers and Medicine,\u201d telling how he got into medicine. As a scrawny sophomore on the Richardson High School football team, Hutton collided with the team\u2019s star middle linebacker and suffered a broken thumb. It ended his fledgling football career but resulted in him deciding to be a doctor.<\/p>\n

The family doctor who set his thumb offered to let Hutton follow him into the exam rooms for several weeks as he treated patients at his clinic. Three examples from those visits \u2014 including a humorous encounter with a breast augmentation patient \u2014 illustrate how a sensitive doctor uses various skills and approaches in treating people. \u201cI experienced the excitement and affirmation that goes with practicing medicine,\u201d Hutton writes. And he passes that excitement along in his stories.<\/p>\n

One piece concerns research he did into Adolph Hitler\u2019s medical problems \u2014 \u201cDid Hitler\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s Disease Affect the Outcome of World War II?\u201d The short answer is yes, but the whole story makes interesting reading.<\/p>\n

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Waggoner Ranch: <\/span> Weatherford photographer Jeremy Enlow<\/span> says his book, Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch,<\/span><\/a><\/span> is a \u201c100 percent Texas book \u2014 produced by Texans, about Texans, for Texans.\u201d It was even printed in Texas.<\/p>\n

The elegant, full-color, 140-page oversized book (11 inches by 12) features Enlow\u2019s captivating photos, with informative text by Fort Worth writer Jan Nichols Batts. The book focuses on the day-to-day life of the twenty-six cowboys who continue to work cattle on the Waggoner, even as the massive 510,572 acre ranch is on the market and its future is unresolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book,\u201d the authors note in the introduction, \u201cis a glimpse into the lives of cowboys who ride the trails of their forebears, living a life and practicing skills that have almost disappeared.\u201d The book sells for $58, and the first printing (November) sold out in ten days. A second printing came out earlier this month.<\/p>\n

To get more information, view some of the photographs, or order the book, go to waggonercowboys.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author, with Carlton Stowers, of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Got Christmas cash to spend? Check out these great Texas novels, nonfiction, and children’s books!<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

INSIDE: Holiday GIFT GUIDE 2015<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Looking for the perfect present for the Texas book lover in your life? We have armloads of ideas\u2014from inspiration, romance to history and popular culture. Books make great gifts\u2014especially Texas books!<\/span>\u00a0 >><\/span><\/a>SHOP NOW<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher<\/span><\/p>\n

Cliff Hudder, \u201cpartisan promoter of Texas authors,\u201d discusses the fun side of fiction \u2014 and the serious<\/h1>\n

Pretty Enough for You has been described as a rollicking carnival of a debut novel<\/span>Cliff Hudder.<\/span> It\u2019s the kind of book that reminds you that literary fiction can be fun, so it seems only fitting that its author is our final front-page profile of the year, as we look back and forward at the same time. <\/span>With Conroe novelist Hudder, Lone Star Lit has now interviewed all ten authors of our <\/span>Top Fiction of 2015 list.<\/span><\/a><\/span>Hudder, who teaches English at Lone Star College-Montgomery, took time between semesters for an email interview with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Where did you grow up, Cliff, and would you describe that for us?<\/span><\/p>\n

CLIFF HUDDER:<\/span> I grew up in Pasadena, Texas, a refinery town on Houston\u2019s southeast flank. Back then, the 1960s and \u201970\u2019s, Houston radio stations commonly used Pasadena as the punch line for jokes about rural country redneck hicks, but those are our chemical plants you see John Travolta\u2019s pickup driving past in the opening credits of Urban Cowboy.<\/span> The sinful megalopolis where the poor lad brings his inadequate cowboy values is actually Pasadena, not Houston.<\/p>\n

In my youth it was lily-white and ultra conservative in addition to being carcinogenic. The schools were quite good, though \u2014 Mrs. Bowen had us reading Hemingway, Fitzgerald,<\/span> and Thornton Wilder<\/span> as high school freshmen \u2014 but I met exactly one Latino and no black people in my classes. On Red Bluff Road was a low red brick building that served as regional Klan Headquarters, and I don\u2019t mean secret headquarters: a sign on the roof spelled out KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN in red letters five feet tall. I grew up thinking every town had a branch office.<\/p>\n

Of course, several decades ago the building was sold and the sign replaced by five-foot red letters that spelled out HERNANDEZ UPHOLSTERY, and the area is now largely Hispanic. Unlike some Texas writers I don\u2019t look back with nostalgia to my small-town youth and despair of the changes. After college I moved and spent about twenty years in the Montrose area of Houston \u2014 not far from Pasadena in miles, but pretty distant otherwise \u2014 and I still consider that my spiritual homeland, though I spend my days now here behind the Pine Curtain in Montgomery County.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 12.27.2015
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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