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

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MEMOIR\/TEXAS MUSIC<\/p>\n

illo stage, from blues to country to rock to punk. I mean, really, name a storied musician and there\u2019s a damn good chance Eddie booked him or her.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0Son learned from his father\u2019s coaching<\/h1>\n

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Just in time for Father\u2019s Day comes a book<\/span> with probably the best title of the year \u2014 Son of Bum<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Wade Phillips (Diversionbooks, $25.99 hardcover). The subtitle is \u201cLessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The author\u2019s father was Bum Phillips,<\/span> the colorful and often quoted coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. Bum passed away in 2013. \u201cMy dad was my hero,\u201d Wade Phillips<\/span> writes. \u201cPretty much everything I know about life, football, and coaching, I learned from him. He shaped me as a man, as a husband, as a father, and as a football coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wade starts each chapter with a quote from Bum, and several times he repeats his dad\u2019s philosophy about the instability of the coaching profession, \u201cThere are two kinds of coaches in this business: them that get fired and them that\u2019s gonna get fired.\u201d Wade, of course, has seen his share of ups and downs, as did Bum. The son coached alongside his father for about ten years, later was head coach at Denver, Buffalo, and Dallas.<\/p>\n

One of the high points of Wade\u2019s career was winning the Super Bowl in 2016, when he was defensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos. \u201cAs blessed as I am to have gotten that first Super Bowl ring,\u201d Wade writes, \u201cI\u2019m even more blessed that I got to spend all of those years coaching with my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wade, who turns seventy this month, begins a new chapter this year as defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams. His son, Wes Phillips, is also a pro football coach, following in his dad\u2019s and granddad\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n

Veteran Buffalo sportswriter and broadcaster Vic Carucci<\/span> is co-author. The book includes more than three dozen black and white photos, many of them fuzzy and grainy.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite stories from the book was when Bum was a high school coach in Nederland. The wife of one of the assistant coaches called the field house one day in tears because her husband was spending so much time away from home. \u201cYou love football more than you love me,\u201d she wailed.<\/p>\n

The coach thought for a second and then replied, \u201cYeah, but I love you more than basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bum and Wade Phillips are both inductees in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, headquartered in Waco.<\/p>\n

Speaking of that, the hall is hosting a sports book festival on Saturday, July 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, featuring fifteen Texas authors who have written books having to do with Texas sports. Carlton Stowers, Al Pickett, Mac Engle, Chad S. Conine,<\/span> and Jim Reeves<\/span> are among the writers who will be speaking and signing books.<\/p>\n

Admission is free, and if you contact Jay Black, vice president for operations at the hall, he can give you free VIP tickets with preferred seating and other benefits. Email him at jay.black@tshof.org or call 254-756-1633.<\/p>\n

For more on the festival, go to the hall\u2019s website, www.tshof.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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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

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Dallas Author Expo announced for June 24; registration is now open for free event<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>Dallas \u2014 The Dallas Author Expo has been announced for Sat., June 24, 2017, at the Holiday Inn Plano\u2013The Colony, 4301 Paige Road in The Colony, Texas, from 1 pm to 6 pm. Registration is now open, and admission is free with advance registration. The expo will feature several interactive speaker panels, free food, networking, free prize drawings, and much more.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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2017 Kids’ Summer Reading: Check it out!<\/h1>\n

sponsored by Blue Wilow Books<\/a><\/span>hop<\/h1>\n

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From read-to-me books to early readers,<\/span> chapter books to middle readers to YA, you\u2019ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookshop or online. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

6.4.2017\u00a0 Words of wisdom from Austinite and author Debra L. Winegarten<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Debra L. Winegarten is an author, poet, publisher, marketer, and self-described \u201csubverter from within.\u201d<\/span> She\u2018s a third-generation Texan and daughter of one of the state\u2019s most significant advocates of women\u2019s history. She talked with us last week via email about the path she has blazed for herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> The name Winegarten is a famous one in Texas publishing and history circles. Your mother, Ruthe, was one of the state\u2019s most significant advocates for Texas women\u2019s history. Where did you grow up, and what was it like?<\/span><\/p>\n

DEBRA L. WINEGARTEN: <\/span>I grew up in north Dallas in the 1960s, in a Jewish feminist household. We were reform, secular Jews, my parents didn\u2019t attend services except on the Jewish High Holidays, and my mother was known (at least by me) for smuggling a mystery book into the services and only really paying attention during the sermon.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a neighborhood where we were the only Jewish family for blocks around, and I was the only Jew in my elementary school classes. Although I attended Hebrew school on the weekends, I keenly felt my \u201cdifference\u201d and \u201cotherness\u201d and this shaped who I am today. As you mentioned, I was blessed to have Ruthe Winegarten<\/span> as my mother, and that afforded me terrific opportunities for early childhood socialization in what we know today as the feminist movement. My mother was good friends with Ann Richards,<\/span> who later became a Texas governor. <\/a>>>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 6.4.2017
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK: Canyon, Abilene, Wimberley, Dallas, Austin, San Marcos, Houston<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Sun., June 4<\/span>\u00a0 BookPeople, EDDIE WILSON speaking & signing Armadillo World Headquarters, 5PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>FORT WORTH <\/span> Mon., June 5\u00a0 Bass Performance Hall, as part of the 15th annual Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Stuart Isacoff discusses his new book, When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn’s Cold War Triumph, and its Aftermath, 10AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., June 7<\/span>\u00a0 Barton Springs Pool, Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy launch The Swimming Holes of Texas, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed, June 7\u00a0 <\/span>Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Photographer Kenny Braun discusses Surf Texas, 12PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Wed., June 7\u00a0 <\/span>The Twig Book Shop, Stew Magnuson discusses and signs The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83 in Texas, 5:30PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN UVALDE <\/span> Thurs., June 8<\/span>\u00a0 El Progreso Memorial Library, 5:30 PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN LEAKEY\u00a0 Fri., June 9<\/span>\u00a0 Real County Public Library, noon<\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN LEAKEY\u00a0 Sat., June 10\u00a0 Frio Canyon Motorcycle Shop, 10:30 am<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Thurs., June 8\u00a0 Brazos Bookstore, Paige Bowers discusses and signs THE GENERAL\u2019S NIECE: THE LITTLE-KNOWN DE GAULLE WHO FOUGHT TO FREE OCCUPIED FRANCE, 7PM<\/span><\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN AUSTIN\u00a0 Sund., June 11\u00a0 BookPeople, 2 PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Thurs., June 8\u00a0 The Twig Book Shop, Elliot Turner reads and signs The Night of the Virgin, 5PM<\/span><\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN AUSTIN\u00a0 Sat., June 10<\/span>\u00a0 BookPeople, 2 PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>ABILENE\u00a0 Sat., June 10<\/span>\u00a0 Texas Star Trading Co., West Texas writer S.J. Dahlstrom signs copies of his Wilder Good series, 11AM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS Sat., June 10\u00a0 The Frederick Douglass Center, SankofaTalks: POWER OF EDUCATION with Dennis Kimbro, author of The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Sat., June 10\u00a0 Brazos Bookstore, reception celebrating the release of TEXAS WEATHER: AN ANTHOLOGY, with an introduction by editor Laurence Musgrove, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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News Briefs 6.4.17<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>2017 Top ELEVEN Readers\u2019 Favorite Texas Bookstores<\/h1>\n

Texas readers have spoken. <\/span>Nearly 2,500 of Lone Star Literary Life\u2019s readers have cast ballots in 3 rounds of our statewide contest during May 2017 to recognize Texas\u2019s favorite bookstores. Their final selections are as diverse as the state itself, and honorees include big indies, small indies, chain stores, used bookstores, and new bookstores in every corner of the state. And in the process, we were pleased to learn about places to buy books that we hadn\u2019t even known before.<\/p>\n

From the major cities of Dallas and Houston, to our state\u2019s capitol city, from the historic Hill Country to the Piney Woods of East Texas, from the burbs to the beach, Texas bookshops are connecting with their communities. (Note that there was a tie for #6!) We are thrilled to showcase them in our second annual Lone Star Literary Life Readers\u2019 Favorite Texas Bookstores \u2014 all 11 of them. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Win BREAKFAST IN TEXAS<\/h1>\n

Terry Thompson-Anderson, with photos by Sandy Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

Breakfast in Texas: Recipes for Elegant Brunches, Down Home Classics, and Local Favorites<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-4773-1044-1<\/p>\n

311 pages, 8 x 10, 123 color photos<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Texans love the morning meal,<\/span> whether it’s bacon and eggs (often eaten in a breakfast taco) or something as distinctively nontraditional as saag paneer omelets, pon haus, or goat curry. A Lone Star breakfast can be a time for eating healthy, or for indulging in decadent food and drink. And with Texas’s rich regional and cultural diversity, an amazing variety of dishes graces the state’s breakfast and brunch tables. The first Texas cookbook dedicated exclusively to the morning meal, Breakfast in Texas<\/span> gathers nearly one hundred recipes that range from perfectly prepared classics to the breakfast foods of our regional cuisines (Southern, Mexican, German, Czech, Indian, and Asian among them) to stand-out dishes from the state’s established and rising chefs and restaurants.<\/p>\n

Enter to win here<\/span><\/a><\/span>, courtesy of the University of Texas Press.<\/p>\n

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Texas Center for the Book seeks applicants for 2017 Literacy Award<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Austin \u2014 The Texas Center for the Book is seeking nonprofit organizations<\/span> that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in Texas. Qualifying organizations must be nominated by September 1, 2017.<\/p>\n

The winning organization will receive a $1,000 cash award to assist in its future work promoting reading and combating illiteracy. This year as well, an honorable mention recipient will receive an $500 cash award. These awards provide public recognition to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations committed to addressing the continuing need for literacy services and that increase public awareness of the importance of literacy. The 2017 Literacy Award winner will be announced during the 2nd Annual Texas Author Summit at the Texas Book Festival on Nov. 2, 2017.\u00a0 <\/a><\/span>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lone Star Listens compilation available Aug. 1, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n

Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n

Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n

Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n

edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by<\/p>\n

Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n

Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Fall 2017<\/p>\n

360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n

Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n

Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n

As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n