{"id":726,"date":"2018-12-31T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:41:24","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

11.13.16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Texas book topics: humor, football, women<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>You Might Be from Texas if <\/span><\/a><\/span>by Nick Anderson<\/span> (MacIntyre Purcell Publishing, $19.95 paperback) is a collection of color cartoons poking fun at our Texas eccentricities. Anderson, editorial cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle,<\/span> has some pretty good zingers. You might be from Texas if:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t remember your wife\u2019s birthday or your anniversary\u2026 but you remember the Alamo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYou aren\u2019t surprised to see a roadside store that carries movie rental, bait and ammunition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYou know that all history teachers in Texas have the same name: Coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYour directions include \u2018down yonder.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III,<\/span> a fourth-generation Texan from Houston, wrote the foreword.<\/p>\n

Texas football: <\/span>This fall I\u2019ve already written about several new books on Texas football, but here are two more that are noteworthy:<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Journalist Mac Engel<\/span> and photographer Ron Jenkins<\/span> teamed up to produce a colorful, well-written, impressive coffee-table book covering four Texas football games in four days. In words and pictures, Pigskin Rapture: Four Days in the Life of Texas Football<\/span> (Lone Star Books, $26 hardcover) puts readers in the middle of the action for these four games in October 2015: Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans on Thursday, Midland Lee at Odessa Permian on Friday, Oklahoma vs. Texas on Saturday, and New England Patriots at Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Quite a weekend of Texas football!<\/p>\n

Best-selling author S. C. Gwynne,<\/span> best known for his award-winning Empire of the Summer Moon,<\/span> turns his attention to football coach Hal Mumme and his revolutionary impact on the game in The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football <\/span>(Scribner, $27 hardcover). Gwynne tells how Mumme led the way in changing football from primarily a running game to a passing game. Mumme, who has had a controversial, roller-coaster career in college football, now coaches at Division III Belhaven in Mississippi. Gwynne calls Mumme \u201cone of a handful of authentic offensive geniuses in the history of American football.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Texas women: <\/span>The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elizabet Ney<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Emily Fourmy Cutrer<\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 paperback) tells about the noted and controversial sculptor who immigrated to Texas in 1871. Her work included sculptures of Texas founding fathers Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech University Press has published Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot<\/span> by Sarah Byrn Rickman<\/span> ($24.95 hardcover). Scott was one of the thirty-eight homeland women pilots to die while serving their country during World War II. She was based at Dallas Love Field for much of her duty and was twenty-three when she died in a midair crash in California. Her letters are archived at Texas Woman\u2019s University.<\/p>\n

Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi<\/span><\/a><\/span> is a collection of eleven historical and biographical essays by noted scholars on various aspects of women\u2019s lives during the Civil War. The book was edited by Deborah M. Liles<\/span> and Angela Boswell<\/span> and published by the University of North Texas ($29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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