{"id":766,"date":"2018-12-31T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:53:12","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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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A coffee table book for history lovers<\/h1>\n

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum<\/span> presents an up-close look at 81 of its artifacts in a full-color coffee-table book, Seeing Texas History<\/span><\/a><\/span> (University of Texas Press, $40 hardcover). The artifact photographs are arranged chronologically, beginning with an ancient tool made from a rabbit jaw and continuing through cultural and historical items from modern-day Texas. Each picture is accompanied by a short text block.<\/p>\n

Just a few examples: Davy Crockett\u2019s violin; the U.S. flag with twenty-eight stars; a saddle owned by Pancho Villa; Tom Landry\u2019s trading card from his football playing days; the Civil Rights Act signed by LBJ in 1968; and the Congressional Medal of Honor\u00a0 presented to Roy Benavidez in 1981.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a gift for that history buff on your list, Seeing Texas History<\/span> would be a nice one.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Simone\u2019s story:<\/span> Simone Biles,<\/span> the diminutive Texas gymnast who captured millions of hearts while winning four gold medals in last summer\u2019s Olympics, tells her story in Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Zondervan, $24.99 hardcover, with co-author Michelle Burford).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might think that going from a girl in foster care to being an Olympic gold medalist in Rio de Janeiro is the most amazing part of my journey,\u201d Biles writes. \u201cIt isn\u2019t. It\u2019s how I got there \u2014 or more accurately, who got me there \u2014 that is most miraculous.\u201d Her story, she continues, is about \u201chow my faith and my family made my wildest dreams come true.\u201d She said she hopes her experiences can help others embrace their dreams and find the \u201ccourage to soar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murals:<\/span> Texas A&M University Press has published a flexbound edition of The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Philip Parisi<\/span> ($29.95).<\/p>\n

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The colorful volume, issued in hardcover for $50 in 2004, describes the 106 works of art created for 69 post offices and federal buildings in Texas during the Depression. Many are still in good condition. The murals depicted colorful scenes and subject matter that people could relate to. A good many of the Texas scenes, for example, feature cattle, buffalo, horses, and Indians. The murals are listed and pictured alphabetically by city.<\/p>\n

Body and spirit:<\/span> Dr. Martha Hinman<\/span>, a professor at Hardin-Simmons University, combines her scientific knowledge of anatomy and her Christian faith to produce a very readable collection of short two-to-three-page essays reflecting on God\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d creativity. Each of the fifty-two chapters or devotional essays incorporates the word \u201camazing\u201d into its title -\u2014 as in Amazing Heredity, Amazing Agility (on David vs. Goliath), Amazing Flexibility, Amazing Productivity, Amazing Tranquility, and Amazing Purity. Amazing Grays<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($16.99 paperback) is scientifically instructive and biblically inspirational.<\/p>\n

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

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Meinzer and Chappel team up for another Texas ranch-history coffee-table volume<\/h1>\n

State Photographer of Texas<\/span> Wyman Meinzer<\/span> and outdoors writer and novelist Henry Chappell,<\/span> who teamed up a decade ago to produce 6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch<\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, 2006), have debuted their newest book collaboration, Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut: The San Antonio Viejo Ranch of Texas (Badlands Design and Production, 2016). The duo signed copies at the Candlelight at the Ranch event at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock Dec. 10 and have also held recent events at the George W. Bush Library and in South Texas. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Above: Photographer Wyman Meinzer (left) and author Henry Chappell (right); Sylinda Meinzer (center) at the National Ranching Heritage Center Dec. 10.<\/p>\n

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Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher<\/span><\/h1>\n

12.11.2016\u00a0 \u201cEnough to provide any writer with a lifetime of material\u201d: John Pipkin on historical fiction and resources \u2014 and poetry<\/h1>\n

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Though the novel <\/span>The Blind Astronomer\u2019s Daughter<\/span> takes places in late eighteenth-century Ireland, the current Texas connections are numerous. The author, <\/span>John Pipkin,<\/span> is a former executive director of the Writers League of Texas and the current writer in residence at Southwestern University in Georgetown. He did some of his research for the book at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. You may have seen the author at the Texas Book Festival last month. Despite being extremely busy grading finals last week, Pipkin took time out of his schedule to be interviewed by email for Lone Star Listens.<\/p>\n

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LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Congratulations on your latest well-received novel, The Blind Astronomer\u2019s Daughter.<\/span> For our readers not familiar with your book, will you describe it for them?<\/p>\n

JOHN PIPKIN:<\/span> The Blind Astronomer\u2019s Daughter<\/span> is set in late-eighteenth-century Ireland and England, and it interweaves the stories of the real-life brother and sister astronomers William and Caroline Herschel<\/span> (who discovered the planet Uranus and numerous comets), as well as the fictional stories of Arthur Ainsworth, an astronomer obsessed with finding a new planet near the sun, his daughter, Caroline Ainsworth, who is determined to escape her father\u2019s obsessions, and a talented blacksmith, Finnegan O\u2019Siodha, inspired by the emerging pseudo-science of galvanism. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of science and astronomy, changing perspectives on the natural world, and the political upheaval of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 12.11.2016
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DALLAS\u00a0 Mon., Dec. 12\u00a0 Kettle Art Galley, Wordspace Dallas presents the Pegasus Reading Series featuring Amy Bernhard, Andy Brise\u00f1o, Alex Lemon, and Sanderia Faye, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Tues., Dec. 13\u00a0 Austin History Center, book discussion with Texas Monthly Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth, author of the recent book The Midnight Assassin, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0\u00a0 Wed., Dec. 13\u00a0 The Hotel Emma, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) presents an evening with Paulette Jiles, author of the National Book Award-nominated News of the World, in conversation with SABF literary director Clay Smith, 6PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>FORT WORTH\u00a0 Thurs., Dec. 15, B&N – Hulen Center, Fear No Evil: Tackling Quarterbacks and Demons on My Way to the Hall of Fame book signing with Charles Haley, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Dec, 16,\u00a0 Paramount Theatre, The Moth stories and storytellers, 8PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Fri., Dec. 17, The Twig Book Shop, E.R. Bills will read and sign Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, 2PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Sun., Dec. 18,\u00a0 Deep Vellum Books, Poetry March and Readings: We Will Not Be Silent, 2PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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December \u201cProfessor\u2019s Corner\u201d to focus on poems by Texas poet laureate Larry D. Thomas, Dec. 14, Denton<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Dr. Stephen Souris,<\/span> professor of English at Texas Woman\u2019s University, will lead a presentation and discussion of poet Larry D. Thomas\u2019s<\/span> work Wed., Dec. 14, 2016 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the Denton South Branch Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessor’s Corner: A Literary Discussion Group\u201d started in 1999, to meet a public need for high quality presentations on literary topics aimed at the general public with an emphasis on discussion.<\/p>\n

Right: Larry D. Thomas (from author\u2019s website)<\/p>\n

All the sessions this season will be devoted to Texas poets laureate. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Writers Resist events slated for Jan. 15, 2017, in three Texas cities<\/h1>\n

Writers Resist, a literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election<\/span> that publishes creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists, has prompted the grass-roots organization of events around the nation, including those organized in Austin, Houston, And San Antonio for Sun., Jan. 15. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lone Star Lit\u2019s Literary Tour of Texas: Burnet, San Antonio<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Texas Hill Country is a treat any time of year<\/span> \u2014 but the opportunity to travel to San Antonio and the rolling, wooded country north of it in early December, when towns are a-twinkle with holiday lights, is a real treat.<\/p>\n

Kay Ellington<\/span> and Barbara Brannon<\/span> were the guest presenters at the monthly Coffee Talks series at the Herman Brown Free Library<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Burnet, a historic town with a good many dedicated readers and writers. (Above, library director Betsy Engelbrecht, right, with library supporters and Paragraph Ranch <\/span>authors Brannon and Ellington, far right). The library welcomes visitors not only to its author presentations, but to its J. Frank Dobie Geneaology Room, its superb collection of Texana, and its main circulation room (below), with a striking portrait of Comanche chief Quanah Parker.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>San Antonio<\/span> is the nation\u2019s seventh largest city, and it offers destinations for writers and book lovers commensurate with its size and rich culture. We visited only a few during our one day in the Alamo City, including the San Antonio Central Library<\/span><\/a> (above), an architectural lodestone that houses world-class art \u2014 such as the Chihuly sculpture at left \u2014 as well as books and media; across the street, the Southwest College of Art, where student work is on display in the circa 1851 former Ursuline Convent Gemini Ink, the center for writers and readers that has occupied four differ San Antonio locales since 1992.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>At Gemini Ink<\/span>, founder and board member Nan Cuba <\/span>joined current development director Bernadette Smyth<\/span> to provide a history and tour of this groundbreaking literary arts program that serves diverse local audiences. Their upcoming events include readings from their own class members, presentations by visiting authors and, in May 2017, a lecture and reading by U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.<\/a><\/p>\n

Above, from right: Barbara Brannon, Kay Ellington, Bernadette \u201cBernie\u201d Smyth, Nan Cuba<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>The Twig Bookshop<\/span><\/a><\/span> is another must-visit bookish stop. Not only did owner Claudia Maceo<\/span> (at right, top right) show us around the store, but through the latest additions to the renovation of the Pearl Brewery<\/span> complex, including the Hotel Emma<\/span> and its own library, open to guests and for special events.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>To cap it off, dinner at Cappy\u2019s in Alamo Heights also involved a bookish holiday treat: a copy of Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex<\/span> signed by authors Cappy Lawton <\/span>and Chris Waters Dunn<\/span> and presented by manager Trevor Lawton<\/span> (far right). The book, published by Trinity University Press of San Antonio, is available for purchase at the restaurant.<\/a><\/p>\n

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LOVE GIVE US ONE DEATH: BONNIE & CLYDE IN THE FINAL DAYS
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Visit with Jeff December 13\u201322<\/p>\n

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