LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\nAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington<\/span><\/h1>\n2.25.2018\u00a0 Robin Roe of Dallas makes the
(Y)A-list with A LIST OF CAGES<\/h1>\n
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Dallas-area author Robin Roe\u2019s novel <\/span>A List of Cages <\/span>(Disney\/Hyperion, 2017) <\/span>\u2014 her first \u2014 was named one of the Best Young Adult Books of the Year by Goodreads, Chapters Indigo, EpicReads, BookPage, Powell\u2019s Books, The Texas Library Association, News & Observer, and Buzzfeed.<\/span><\/p>\nThis highly praised book is her first commercial success, but we\u2019re sure it won\u2019t be her last. How did she turn real-life experience as a special education teacher into a compelling story of conflict and compassion? Find out more about her path in this week\u2019s interview-via-email.<\/p>\n
LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Congratulations on such a strong start with your first novel, Robin. For our readers not familiar with <\/span>A List of Cages,<\/span> can you tell them about it?<\/span><\/p>\nROBIN ROE:<\/span> A List of Cages<\/span> is about a boy named Adam who\u2019s serving as an aide to the school psychologist during his senior year of high school. When she asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging their sessions, Adam discovers that the younger boy is Julian\u2014the foster brother he hasn\u2019t seen in five years. Adam is ecstatic to be reunited but soon realizes Julian is keeping secrets that could cost both boys their lives.<\/p>\nWhat led you to write this book?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve spent much of my life\u2014both personally and professionally\u2014caring for kids who\u2019ve experienced trauma. A List of Cages rose from this.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/dottedline380.jpg\")
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<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 2.25.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\nSPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program,<\/span> Midland, February 8-March 15<\/li>\n
- FESTIBA 2018: Festival of International Books & Arts, <\/span>Brownsville, February 26-March<\/li>\n
- 11th Annual Johnson City Library Writers Conference,<\/span> February 28<\/li>\n
- 32nd Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering,<\/span> Alpine, March 2-3<\/li>\n
- RGV Writers Conference,<\/span> McAllen, March 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
BRYAN\u00a0 Sun., Feb. 25<\/span>\u00a0 Brazos County Expo Center, Jeff and Mary O Parker, authors of Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, will be appearing together for a signing and to teach a session at the Texas Bluebird Society’s annual “Bluebird Season Kickoff,” 9AM<\/p>\nDALLAS\u00a0 Sun., Feb. 25\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “Writing Out of the Wilderness: A Publication Seminar – Survive Rejection, Forge a Path to Publication, & Make Yourself Findable” with Blake Kimzey, 3PM<\/p>\nDALLAS\u00a0 Mon., Feb. 26 <\/span> Deep Vellum Book, a thrilling night of conversation as we celebrate the re-launch of Joe Milazzo\u2019s Crepuscule W\/ Nellie (with Robin Myrick, Brenda Randall, and David Eric Tomlinson), 7PM<\/p>\nDENTON\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> UNT, Visiting Writers Series presents a reading with Ruth Ellen Kocher, award-winning author of seven books of poetry, 8PM<\/p>\nSAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> Trinity University, The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, 8PM<\/p>\nSAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 5PM<\/p>\nALSO SIGNING IN KERRVILLE\u00a0\u00a0 Sat., Mar. 3<\/span>\u00a0 Wolfmueller’s Books, 3 PM<\/p>\nHOUSTON\u00a0 Wed., Feb. 28 <\/span> Talento Bilingue de Houston, Celebrate 20 Years of Nuestra Palabra And The Expansion of the Showcase: The Latino Agenda Voting and the Upcoming Elections, 7PM<\/p>\nAUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1 <\/span> BookPeople, MICHAEL NOLL speaking & signing The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction (in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers), 7PM<\/p>\nCOLLEGE STATION\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1<\/span>\u00a0 Texas A&M – Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, opening of the exhibition, The Angel in the Marble: Selections from the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers: notable paper marbler and artist Tom Leech will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, \u201cYour Brain on Paper: Musings from a Papermaker\u2019s Vat,\u201d 6:30PM (live demonstration of several methods of paper decoration, including marbling, suminagashi, and paste paper, 2:30PM)<\/p>\nVICTORIA\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 UHV, American Book Review Reading Series hosts Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12PM<\/p>\nAUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Mar. 2<\/span>\u00a0 Resistencia Books, Celebrating Words & Verses of Black Women: A Caf\u00e9 Libro Open Mic featuring Tonya Lyles, Chandra Washington, Cindy Elizabeth, and Amanda Johnston, 7:30PM<\/p>\nABILENE\u00a0 Sun., Mar. 4<\/span>\u00a0 National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the NCCIL welcomes Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Chair, 5:30PM [members only]<\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNews Briefs 2.25.18<\/h1>\n14th Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference to explore balance between informing and entertaining readers, July 20\u201322<\/h1>\n
DENTON \u2014 This summer\u2019s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference<\/span> will explore how journalists balance writing stories that are factually credible while writing entertaining stories.\u00a0 \u201cAre You Not Entertained? Real Stories, Real People, Real Storytelling\u201d \u2014 The 14th annual Mayborn Conferece, hosted by the University of North Texas\u2019s Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, will feature keynote speakers are Diana B. Henriques,<\/span> author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust;<\/span> Lindy West,<\/span> contributing essayist for the New York Times;<\/span> and Christopher Goffard,<\/span> feature writer for the Los Angeles Times<\/span> and multiple Pulitzer Prize finalist.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/tx%20teen%20book%20fest%202015_7.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/span><\/span>10th annual Texas Teen Book Festival slated for October 6<\/h1>\n
Milestone year to bring several surprises for 2018 festival attendees<\/h1>\n
AUSTIN \u2014 The Texas Teen Book Festival is excited to announce that its 10th annual Festival <\/span>will take place Sat., Oct. 6, at St. Edward\u2019s University. Young adults and YA-genre fans can expect a fun day filled with entertaining panels and inspiring sessions led by some of 2018\u2019s best-selling and most critically acclaimed Young Adult authors, along with interactive activities, games, book signings, and more.<\/p>\nThe 2017 Texas Teen Book Festival welcomed more than 4,000 attendees and an all-star lineup of more than thirty celebrated YA authors, including keynote speakers Jason Reynolds<\/span> and Marie Lu.<\/span> The 2017 TTBF also introduced the iTent and We Need Diverse Books for a special session on professional opportunities in the book and publishing industry.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are ecstatic to announce that the 2018 Texas Teen Book Festival will be returning for its 10th year,\u201d said Shawn Mauser,<\/span> TTBF festival director.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/sabf%20authors%202018%20sm.jpg\")
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6th annual Book Festival to bring more than ninety authors to San Antonio Apr. 7<\/h1>\n
SAN ANTONIO\u2014The San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) has released its lineup of more than 90 national, regional, and local authors<\/span> who will appear at the 6th annual Festival, which will take place on Saturday, April 7, 2018, from 9 am to 5 pm at the Central Library and Southwest School of Art. A detailed schedule of the Festival\u2019s author sessions will be available at saplf.org\/festiva<\/span><\/a><\/span>l in March.<\/p>\nHeadlining the 2018 lineup is Emmy award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos<\/span> with his latest book, Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era.<\/span> Ramos has been the anchorman for Univision since 1986 and was hailed as \u201cone of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States\u201d by magazine. His 2016 documentary, Hate Rising,<\/span> investigates the state of hate in America.<\/p>\nOther top attractions in the SABF lineup include popular comedian Paula Poundstone<\/span> with her book exploring happiness, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness;<\/span> Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea<\/span> with his new novel, The House of Broken Angels<\/span>; former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros<\/span> with Building Equitable Cities: How to Drive Economic Mobility and Regional Growth<\/span>; Attica Locke<\/span>, author of Bluebird, Bluebird <\/span>and former writer for the TV show Empire;<\/span> National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado<\/span> with her debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties;<\/span> former LBJ Presidential Library director Mark Updegrove<\/span> with The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n
2.25.2018\u00a0 Robin Roe of Dallas makes the
(Y)A-list with A LIST OF CAGES<\/h1>\n
<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Dallas-area author Robin Roe\u2019s novel <\/span>A List of Cages <\/span>(Disney\/Hyperion, 2017) <\/span>\u2014 her first \u2014 was named one of the Best Young Adult Books of the Year by Goodreads, Chapters Indigo, EpicReads, BookPage, Powell\u2019s Books, The Texas Library Association, News & Observer, and Buzzfeed.<\/span><\/p>\n This highly praised book is her first commercial success, but we\u2019re sure it won\u2019t be her last. How did she turn real-life experience as a special education teacher into a compelling story of conflict and compassion? Find out more about her path in this week\u2019s interview-via-email.<\/p>\n LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Congratulations on such a strong start with your first novel, Robin. For our readers not familiar with <\/span>A List of Cages,<\/span> can you tell them about it?<\/span><\/p>\n ROBIN ROE:<\/span> A List of Cages<\/span> is about a boy named Adam who\u2019s serving as an aide to the school psychologist during his senior year of high school. When she asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging their sessions, Adam discovers that the younger boy is Julian\u2014the foster brother he hasn\u2019t seen in five years. Adam is ecstatic to be reunited but soon realizes Julian is keeping secrets that could cost both boys their lives.<\/p>\n What led you to write this book?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve spent much of my life\u2014both personally and professionally\u2014caring for kids who\u2019ve experienced trauma. A List of Cages rose from this.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK<\/span><\/p>\n BRYAN\u00a0 Sun., Feb. 25<\/span>\u00a0 Brazos County Expo Center, Jeff and Mary O Parker, authors of Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, will be appearing together for a signing and to teach a session at the Texas Bluebird Society’s annual “Bluebird Season Kickoff,” 9AM<\/p>\n DALLAS\u00a0 Sun., Feb. 25\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “Writing Out of the Wilderness: A Publication Seminar – Survive Rejection, Forge a Path to Publication, & Make Yourself Findable” with Blake Kimzey, 3PM<\/p>\n DALLAS\u00a0 Mon., Feb. 26 <\/span> Deep Vellum Book, a thrilling night of conversation as we celebrate the re-launch of Joe Milazzo\u2019s Crepuscule W\/ Nellie (with Robin Myrick, Brenda Randall, and David Eric Tomlinson), 7PM<\/p>\n DENTON\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> UNT, Visiting Writers Series presents a reading with Ruth Ellen Kocher, award-winning author of seven books of poetry, 8PM<\/p>\n SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> Trinity University, The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, 8PM<\/p>\n SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 27 <\/span> The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 5PM<\/p>\n ALSO SIGNING IN KERRVILLE\u00a0\u00a0 Sat., Mar. 3<\/span>\u00a0 Wolfmueller’s Books, 3 PM<\/p>\n HOUSTON\u00a0 Wed., Feb. 28 <\/span> Talento Bilingue de Houston, Celebrate 20 Years of Nuestra Palabra And The Expansion of the Showcase: The Latino Agenda Voting and the Upcoming Elections, 7PM<\/p>\n AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1 <\/span> BookPeople, MICHAEL NOLL speaking & signing The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction (in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers), 7PM<\/p>\n COLLEGE STATION\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1<\/span>\u00a0 Texas A&M – Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, opening of the exhibition, The Angel in the Marble: Selections from the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers: notable paper marbler and artist Tom Leech will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, \u201cYour Brain on Paper: Musings from a Papermaker\u2019s Vat,\u201d 6:30PM (live demonstration of several methods of paper decoration, including marbling, suminagashi, and paste paper, 2:30PM)<\/p>\n VICTORIA\u00a0 Thurs., Mar. 1<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 UHV, American Book Review Reading Series hosts Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12PM<\/p>\n AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Mar. 2<\/span>\u00a0 Resistencia Books, Celebrating Words & Verses of Black Women: A Caf\u00e9 Libro Open Mic featuring Tonya Lyles, Chandra Washington, Cindy Elizabeth, and Amanda Johnston, 7:30PM<\/p>\n ABILENE\u00a0 Sun., Mar. 4<\/span>\u00a0 National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the NCCIL welcomes Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Chair, 5:30PM [members only]<\/p>\n DENTON \u2014 This summer\u2019s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference<\/span> will explore how journalists balance writing stories that are factually credible while writing entertaining stories.\u00a0 \u201cAre You Not Entertained? Real Stories, Real People, Real Storytelling\u201d \u2014 The 14th annual Mayborn Conferece, hosted by the University of North Texas\u2019s Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, will feature keynote speakers are Diana B. Henriques,<\/span> author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust;<\/span> Lindy West,<\/span> contributing essayist for the New York Times;<\/span> and Christopher Goffard,<\/span> feature writer for the Los Angeles Times<\/span> and multiple Pulitzer Prize finalist.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>10th annual Texas Teen Book Festival slated for October 6<\/h1>\n AUSTIN \u2014 The Texas Teen Book Festival is excited to announce that its 10th annual Festival <\/span>will take place Sat., Oct. 6, at St. Edward\u2019s University. Young adults and YA-genre fans can expect a fun day filled with entertaining panels and inspiring sessions led by some of 2018\u2019s best-selling and most critically acclaimed Young Adult authors, along with interactive activities, games, book signings, and more.<\/p>\n The 2017 Texas Teen Book Festival welcomed more than 4,000 attendees and an all-star lineup of more than thirty celebrated YA authors, including keynote speakers Jason Reynolds<\/span> and Marie Lu.<\/span> The 2017 TTBF also introduced the iTent and We Need Diverse Books for a special session on professional opportunities in the book and publishing industry.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are ecstatic to announce that the 2018 Texas Teen Book Festival will be returning for its 10th year,\u201d said Shawn Mauser,<\/span> TTBF festival director.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n SAN ANTONIO\u2014The San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) has released its lineup of more than 90 national, regional, and local authors<\/span> who will appear at the 6th annual Festival, which will take place on Saturday, April 7, 2018, from 9 am to 5 pm at the Central Library and Southwest School of Art. A detailed schedule of the Festival\u2019s author sessions will be available at saplf.org\/festiva<\/span><\/a><\/span>l in March.<\/p>\n Headlining the 2018 lineup is Emmy award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos<\/span> with his latest book, Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era.<\/span> Ramos has been the anchorman for Univision since 1986 and was hailed as \u201cone of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States\u201d by magazine. His 2016 documentary, Hate Rising,<\/span> investigates the state of hate in America.<\/p>\n Other top attractions in the SABF lineup include popular comedian Paula Poundstone<\/span> with her book exploring happiness, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness;<\/span> Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea<\/span> with his new novel, The House of Broken Angels<\/span>; former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros<\/span> with Building Equitable Cities: How to Drive Economic Mobility and Regional Growth<\/span>; Attica Locke<\/span>, author of Bluebird, Bluebird <\/span>and former writer for the TV show Empire;<\/span> National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado<\/span> with her debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties;<\/span> former LBJ Presidential Library director Mark Updegrove<\/span> with The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTexas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 2.25.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNews Briefs 2.25.18<\/h1>\n
14th Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference to explore balance between informing and entertaining readers, July 20\u201322<\/h1>\n
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