{"id":788,"date":"2018-12-31T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:59:57","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=788","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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ESSAYS\/CULTURAL STUDIES<\/p>\n

Willard Spiegelman<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Moments:\u00a0 Looking Back, Looking Ahead<\/span><\/p>\n

Farrar Straus Giroux<\/p>\n

Hardcover\u00a0 (ebook) 978-0-374-26122-1, 208 pages, $24.00; September 13, 2016<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Life, we are often reminded, is a journey,<\/span> and some journeys are better than others, especially if we share them with good friends.<\/p>\n

The delightful personal essays in Willard Spiegelman\u2019s<\/span> Senior Moments<\/span> take us to past chapters, adventures and concerns in his life, while also gently taking us forward to contemplate the final silence we will also encounter someday.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, his book opens with an essay titled \u201cTalk,\u201d in which he contends: \u201cThe person who excels in conversation has mastered the art of listening as well as speaking.\u201d And Spiegelman, the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, ends Senior Moments <\/span>with \u201cQuiet,\u201d an entertaining and thoughtful examination of how our lives and attention spans now are almost constantly bombarded by noise, to the point that conversations have been replaced by shouting over the ambient hubbub. \u201cIn nearly all restaurants, everywhere,\u201d he laments, \u201ccommotion and hysteria have replaced tranquility.\u201d >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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HAPPY NEW YEAR<\/h1>\n

Texas Reads<\/span> is taking a holiday today and will return Jan. 8, 201<\/p>\n

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

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

Bookseller and writing group updates, January 2017<\/h1>\n

The close of one year and the debut of another<\/span> always brings word of important transitions, and bookish Texas life is no exception. While we\u2019ve learned of changes in some of our favorite bookstore destinations from the east side of the state to the west, we\u2019ve also gotten wind of a new bookselling enterprise in the south.<\/p>\n

Beauty and the Book closes; founder Murphy shifts plans; Pulpwood Queen\u2019s Girlfriend Weekend 2017 dates set<\/h1>\n

Kathy L. Murphy<\/span>, founder of the long-running Beauty and the Book hair salon and bookstore in Jefferson and, later, Hawkins, Texas, posted on her Facebook page December 4, \u201cA chapter is closing in my book of life, yes, Beauty and the Book, my shop that was my dream come true has come to an end. It’s time . . . 16 years of my life I gave it my all, 2000\u20132016, but sometimes that is just not good enough. I have to let it go and move on.\u201d\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lubbock indie store Hester Books closing its doors\u2014for now<\/h1>\n

Oldies977 Radio of Lubbock reports Dec. 29<\/span><\/a><\/span> that \u201cthe doors of Hester Books<\/span> will be closing . . . as owner Renee Hester<\/span> has decided to pursue a new direction.\u201d Hester, who has managed the shop since 2006 following the death of her father, Ross Hester, who founded it in 1997. The Hester family has served Lubbock community with office supplies, office machines, and a printing company going back eight decades.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Panhandle Professional Writers rebrands as High Plains Writers<\/h1>\n

The Amarillo-based Panhandle Professional Writers, <\/span>one of the state\u2019s oldest writers\u2019 groups, changed its name in 2016 to Texas High Plains Writers, an identity reflected in its new Facebook page<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The group began in 1921 as Panhandle Pen Women, founded by teacher and historian Laura V. Hamner<\/span>.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Houston welcomes new bookstore to Talento Biling\u00fce de Houston<\/h1>\n

As the Houston Chronicle<\/span> reports recently, the new Nuestra Palabra Arts & Books<\/span> is \u201ctucked in a side room at Talento Biling\u00fce de Houston, the Latino cultural arts center just east of downtown.<\/p>\n

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

1.1.2017 Arianne \u201cTex\u201d Thompson waxes witty on Western sci-fi, workshops, and writing in characters who haven’t been included before<\/h1>\n

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It was only a matter of time before an author named Tex<\/span> would be featured on the front page of Lone Star Lit, but last week when she\u2014that\u2019s right, she\u2014announced the launch of her latest Western sci-fi fantasy novel with a fruitcake amnesty program on New Year\u2019s Eve, she became a \u201cmust-get.\u201d In addition to being a novelist, <\/span>Arianne \u201cTex\u201d Thompson<\/span> teaches in the SMU Writer\u2019s Path Program. We visited with her virtually via email the day before the big event about her books, and her path to publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Where did you grow up, Tex, and how has it influenced your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n

TEX THOMPSON:<\/span> Well, if you know the Dallas-Fort Worth area, you might be familiar with Irving. It is the warm, friendly armpit of the DFW metroplex, wedged right up between the D and the FW. I was born there and lived there until I was thirty (when we moved an entire eight miles down the road into Dallas proper), and if I play my cards just right, I might even be lucky enough to die there.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like Irving itself is some kind of sparkling gem on the Interstate. To me, what matters is that I\u2019ve gotten to grow right where I was planted. I can meet my parents for dinner on a whim. I still play D&D with people I went to kindergarten with. There is power and identity in being really, meaningfully \u201cfrom\u201d somewhere, and it\u2019s the bedrock of everything I\u2019ve written so far. In Droughtworld, the people who have magic aren\u2019t \u201cborn special\u201d: instead, their power comes from some kind of cultural continuity. They\u2019ve spent their lives belonging to a place or a clan or a faith tradition, and that link empowers them. It certainly has empowered me.>>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 1.1.2017
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK: Kwanzaa at The Dock,<\/span> Fort Worth, through Jan 1, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/span>Saturday, December 31\u00a0 HAPPY NEW YEAR\u2019S EVE<\/span><\/span><\/span>Sunday, January 1, 2017\u00a0 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017<\/span>Check out the new features on our GO events page!<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Tues., Jan. 3\u00a0 The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon, 7:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., Jan. 4\u00a0 Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: author and photographer Rhonda Lashley Lopez discusses Don’t Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country, 12PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Jan. 5, BookPeople, The Rag Editors THORNE DREYER, ALICE EMBREE, and RICHARD CROXDALE speaking and signing Celebrating The Rag: Austin’s Iconic Underground Newspaper, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Jan. 6, Malvern Books, a reading with acclaimed poets Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum and Jenny Molberg, 7PM<\/span><\/span>ALSO READING IN DALLAS Sat., Jan 7,<\/span> Deep Vellum Books, Pandora’s Box kicks off 2017 with poets Jenny Molberg, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, and Caitlin Pryor, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Fri., Jan. 6, Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents The Balcony Poets, led by Billie Duncan and Chris Wise, 8:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Sat., Jan. 7, The Twig Book Shop, Debi Cole reads and signs The Homestead, 11AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Sun., Jan. 8, Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Spiritual Renewal,” 4PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Sun.,\u00a0 Jan. 8\u00a0\u00a0 The Twig Bookshop at the Pearl, Wendy Barker and Sarah Cortez, Poetry reading, 2:00pm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Celebrate Kwanzaa at the Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth, through Jan. 1<\/h1>\n

The Dock Bookshop will host its annual seven-day celebration<\/span> of family, community, and culture Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 through Sun., Jan. 1, 2017<\/p>\n

The Dock Bookshop – 6637 Meadowbrook Dr. Fort Worth, TX 76112. All Kwanzaa events are open to the public. Here is the schedule, published on the Dock website.>>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

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