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

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

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Sports, celebrity photos featured in new book<\/span><\/h1>\n

This isn\u2019t a Texas book per se, but it was published by the University of Texas Press<\/span> and includes pictures of several Texans, so I\u2019m going to mention it here anyway. Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs<\/span> <\/a>by Neil Leifer<\/span> with Diane K. Shah<\/span> ($45 hardcover) is filled with great photos from one of the best-known sports photographers of the past fifty years. Not all of the pictures are sports related, as Leifer shot dozens of cover photographs for magazine as well as Sports Illustrated,<\/span> but most are.<\/p>\n

Leifer writes about some of the athletes, movie stars, and other dignitaries he has known and photographed over the years. They include Muhammad Ali (on the cover), Mickey Mantle, Arnold Palmer, Joe Namath, and Bear Bryant, as well as Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started out shooting sports,\u201d Leifer writes, \u201cand, before I knew it, I was taking pictures of many of the greatest athletes of the past half century. \u201cNot only that, but my career also took unexpected turns that sent me off to distant locales I couldn\u2019t have even imagined. I ended up taking pictures of everyone from presidents and popes to movie stars and murderers \u2014 some of the most famous and infamous people on the planet. \u201cAnd almost every one of those pictures comes with a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 400-page book is packed with Leifer\u2019s color photographs and his frank and insightful commentary.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Aging gracefully: <\/span>Dr. Matthew Minson, <\/span>who teaches in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, has written a practical and whimsical guide to growing older. Prepare to Defend Yourself: How to Age Gracefully & Escape with Your Dignity<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $28 paperback) looks at ways to make life more bearable and fun after fifty.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many,\u201d Minson writes, \u201cgrowing old is forbidding, even terrifying, and fraught with difficulty. For many others, growing old is a dynamic time of accomplishment, gratification, reflection, and reward, and, yes, fraught with difficulty. \u201cThe purpose of this book is to give you the tools and resources that will help shift your experiences toward the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minson, also a cartoonist, sprinkles his drawings throughout the book as he discusses serious matters such as access to health care, financial resources, elder abuse and self-protection, sexuality, and end of life.<\/p>\n

Baseball parents:<\/span> Longtime Texas sportswriter Mark McDonald, now living in Midland, is the author of They Gave Us Baseball, Now Look What We\u2019ve Done: How Doting Parents and Nut-Job Coaches Screw Up the Game for Kids ($19.95 paperback). The title pretty much summarizes what the book is about. Order at sportsandoutdoors.guru<\/a><\/span> or contact the author at mark.marketing@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please.<\/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<\/p><\/div>\n
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Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1455533831 (also available as an ebook, an audiobook, and on Audible), 608 pgs., $26.00<\/p>\n

April 12, 2016<\/p>\n

One night in March 1881, <\/span>a woman gives birth to twins on a homestead near Gainesville, Texas. Millicent Holloway didn\u2019t want one baby, much less two, so she and her husband, Leon, send the baby girl away with the midwife.<\/p>\n

Twenty years later, Nathan Holloway knew he wasn\u2019t his mother\u2019s favorite but still \u201cfelt a part of the family scene if for the most part ignored, like the indispensable clock over the mantel in the kitchen.\u201d Until Trevor Waverling arrives at the Holloway homestead outside Gainesville to announce that he is Nathan\u2019s biological father and Nathan discovers that his mother is selling the farm out from under him.\u00a0\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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

5.29.16\u00a0 J. Todd Scott on what drove him to create his West Texas crime noir hit<\/h1>\n

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If you\u2019re traveling West this Memorial Day week<\/span> to kick off a summer vacation and you find yourself in a place outside of Van Horn or Fort Stockton or Monahans, you can understand why the area might be dubbed The Far Empty,<\/span> the title of J. Todd Scott\u2019s<\/span> debut novel. However, you might also see that its vast desert might prove fertile ground for a writer\u2019s mind on the road.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly how DEA special agent Scott crafted his Western crime noir that launches this upcoming week: while driving back and forth between Midland and Alpine. We caught up with him via email on the eve of his high school senior\u2019s graduation and launching his first book tour in El Paso.<\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:\u00a0 <\/span>When you were growing up in Kentucky, do you ever imagine you might find yourself spending a portion of your life in Texas? What were your impressions of Texas as a youngster?<\/span><\/p>\n

J. TODD SCOTT: <\/span>Growing up I never really thought about ever living in Texas \u2014 of course, I never imagined all the places I would end eventually end up living, such as Los Angeles and Port Au Prince, Haiti. Until I moved to El Paso in 2013, my only prior experience with Texas was visiting some family in Galveston when I was in high school in 1983, the same week Hurricane Alicia made landfall. Needless to say, I didn\u2019t get to stick around town very long. I actually think the rest of that vacation took place in Texarkana!\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite Texas Bookstores<\/h1>\n

FINAL ROUND:
Vote by May 31, 2016<\/h1>\n

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

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 5.29.2016
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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HOUSTON, Sun., May 29, B&N – Westheimer, Brian McTaggart signing 100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, 11AM<\/span>(Also Thurs., June 2, at Brazos Bookstore, 7 PM)<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0\u00a0 Tues., May 31, Dallas City Performance Hall, Arts & Letters Live presents Dacher Keltner, author of The Power Paradox, 7:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., June 1, Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Terry Thompson-Anderson discusses her new cookbook Texas on the Table, 12PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., June 3, BookPeople, NPR Music’s BOB BOILEN speaking & signing Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Fri., June 3, Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series featuring Terry Jude Miller, 8:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Sat., June 5, B&N – La Cantera, Romance Author Camille di Maio signing The Memory of Us, 2PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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News Briefs 5.29.16<\/h1>\n

Abilene\u2019s Children\u2019s Art and Literacy Festival lauds books across the city June 9-11<\/h1>\n

Celebrating the work of Mark Teague,<\/span> illustrator of the How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? book series, Abilene\u2019s Children\u2019s Art and Literacy Festival includes a parade, dramatic readings of Teague’s books, costumed characters, art activities, animals, magic shows, balloons and more June 9-11, 2016, in Abilene, the Storybook Capital of Texas. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CALF Celebrates 5th Year in Storybook Capital of Texas<\/h1>\n

Abilene, the Storybook Capital of Texas,<\/span> has many literary events throughout the year, but the largest collaboration in the region is the CALF festival. The CALF draws thousands of people from Texas and beyond. The CALF was started by the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, along with other community leaders, which realized that Abilene needed an event that would emphasize the importance the city places on families, art and literacy, as well as to involve many of the great art and community organizations located in downtown Abilene. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite Texas Bookstores<\/h1>\n

FINAL ROUND:
Vote by May 31, 2016<\/h1>\n

Texas has nearly 300 bookstores, and ONLY 30 of them have made the cut after last week’s finalist round of voting. Now tell us which of these are your favorites, and why. We look forward to hearing from you! <\/p>\n