{"id":72,"date":"2018-12-31T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:38:26","slug":"lone-star-book-reviewsby-michelle-newby-nbcccontributing-editor-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"u10421-16\"><span id=\"u10421-10\"><span id=\"u10440\"><span id=\"u10437\"><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=\"u10437_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"u10421-11\">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=\"u10421-13\">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=\"u10421-15\">The Collagist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u10421-26\">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=\"u10455-20\">\n<p><span><span id=\"u10468\"><span id=\"u10462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/harris%2c%20elizabeth_headshot.jpg\"  id=\"u10462_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Elizabeth Harris<\/span> is a native Texan who grew up in Ft. Worth and in Pittsburgh, PA. She won the John Simmons Prize, awarded by University of Iowa Press, for her first book, <span>The Ant Generator,<\/span> a collection of stories praised for their \u201csense of wonder and comedy\u201d and \u201cacid-etched existentialism.\u201d Those and uncollected stories appeared in <span id=\"u10455-10\">Antioch Review, Epoch, Chicago Review, North American Review, Shenandoah,<\/span> and other magazines, and have been anthologized in <span id=\"u10455-12\">New Stories from the South, Best of Wind, The Iowa Award,<\/span> and <span id=\"u10455-14\">Literary Austin.<\/span> <span id=\"u10455-16\">Mayhem<\/span> will be her second book. She taught fiction writing and modern literature for a number of years at the University of Texas in Austin, where she and her husband live.<\/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-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}