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

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<\/span><\/span>TEXAS COOKING<\/p>\n

Paula Forbes, <\/span>with photography by Robert Strickland<\/span><\/p>\n

The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Deep in the Heart of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harry N. Abrams<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1419728938, 240 pages, $29.99<\/p>\n

March 20, 2018<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Angelina LaRue<\/p>\n

Good food and Austin are synonymous. <\/span>We often think of little restaurants around Austin with brightly colored oil cloths covering the tables. Fajitas sizzling on a hot cast iron plate, or long lines outside popular barbecue joints and food trucks, are all part of the Austin experience, as well.<\/p>\n

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

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5.20.2018\u00a0 Photos capture grandeur of Texas scenes<\/h1>\n

If I were selecting the most elegant Texas book of the year<\/span> published so far in 2018, two titles would be at the top of the list.<\/p>\n

Last week I told you about Horses of the American West: Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists<\/span> by Heidi Brady<\/span> and Scott White<\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $40 hardcover).<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Well, the other one is As Far As You Can See: Picturing Texas, <\/span>featuring the spectacular photographs of veteran Austin photographer Kenny Braun<\/span> (University of Texas Press, $45 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Measuring 10 by 13 inches, the full-color, 200-page volume is the quintessential coffee-table book, virtually commanding visitors to pick it up and savor the grandeur of Texas nature.<\/p>\n

The photographs are organized by region, beginning with West Texas and continuing through the Gulf Coast, Central Texas, the Panhandle, East Texas, Prairies & Lakes, and South Texas, showcasing the state\u2019s scenic diversity.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five of the photographs receive magnificent double-page treatments, and most of the others get a full page in the boldly lavish layout.<\/p>\n

If I had to pick a favorite from the book, I would go with the photo labeled \u201cTwelve Feet Deep,\u201d showing six pair of bare legs dangling from a bridge at Camp Tonkawa Springs in East Texas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwelve Feet Deep\u201d is one of the photographs from Kenny Braun\u2019s book As Far As You Can See: Picturing Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am continually awed, and surprised, by the natural beauty of Texas,\u201d photographer Braun writes.<\/p>\n

In As Far As You Can See,<\/span> Braun shares the gift of nature with everyone who picks up and flips through his wonderful book.<\/p>\n

Author S.C. Gwynne<\/span> (Empire of the Summer Moon) contributes a foreword for the volume, part of the UT Press photography series sponsored by Abilene\u2019s Bill and Alice Wright.<\/span><\/p>\n

Midland A to Z:<\/span> Three years ago Abilene Christian University Press published a children\u2019s book, Abilene A to Z, that Jay Moore<\/span> and I co-authored about Abilene history and culture.<\/p>\n

Now ACU Press has published a similar volume featuring the history and culture of Midland, written and photographed by Jimmy and Karen Patterson<\/span>. (A is for Airport; B for Bush Family; C for Churches; D for Downtown; E for Eating; F for Football, etc.).<\/p>\n

The format is adaptable to other medium and large cities as well, as a way of introducing young readers to a community\u2019s distinctive features. For more information, check out the press\u2019s web site at acupressbooks.com.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/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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<\/span><\/span>2018 TEXAS BOOKISH DESTINATIONS<\/h1>\n

Can you name this literary place in the Lone Star State?<\/h1>\n

Admit it: bookfans love traveling almost as much as they love reading itself.<\/span> All year long we promote our annual list of Top Texas Bookish Destinations, for readers who want to visit the settings of their favorite books, the birthplaces and haunts of favorite authors, and hot spots for book buying, readings, and other literary activity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But throughout Texas\u2019s 268,597 square miles, there are also lots of out-of-the-way points of interest that we don\u2019t always have space to cover in our Top Ten pages.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watch this space each week for a new bookish place that you\u2019ll want to add to your own travel list. Be the first to email us with the correct identification, and win a prize!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This week, we continue with a bookish place that\u2019s located in 2018\u2019s #1 Top Bookish Destination. Where in this city celebrating its tricentennial this year would you find a colorful reading corner inside one of its hometown retailers?<\/p>\n

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Email us at<\/span> info@LoneStarLiterary.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> with the specific right answer,<\/span> and we’ll send you a free copy of Literary Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LAST MONTH\u2019S PHOTO<\/span> (below<\/span>) went wanting for a winner. We\u2019ll reveal the place now \u2014 it\u2019s the Poet Tree, in Houston (yeah, that would\u2019ve been easy, for anyone who zoomed in).<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span> Twig\u2019s Top Ten Bestsellers<\/h1>\n

April 2018<\/h1>\n

What are Texans reading these days, you ask? <\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s newest regular feature is a monthly list of trending titles at the <\/span>Twig Book Shop,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a leading independent bookseller in San Antonio. Click on any title for the Buy link. And we’ll also include a hotlink to related content in Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter F. Drucker,<\/span>1 HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing Yourself\u00a0 <\/span> 978-1633694477 (<\/span>reviewed in Lone Star Lit <\/span><\/a><\/span>Jan. 21, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Paulo Coehlo,<\/span>The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary Edition <\/span>978-0062390622<\/span><\/p>\n

Jen Sincero<\/span>You Are a Badass <\/span> 978-0762490547<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence Wright<\/span>The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11 <\/span> 978-1400030842<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernest Cline,<\/span>Ready Player One\u00a0 <\/span>978-0307887436<\/span><\/p>\n

Octavio Quintanilla<\/span>If I Go Missing<\/span>978-0941720359<\/span><\/p>\n

Zora Neale Hurston<\/span>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/span>\u00a0 978-0060199494<\/span><\/p>\n

Laurie Ann Guerrero<\/span>A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying<\/span>\u00a0 978-0875656878<\/span><\/p>\n

James Donovan<\/span>Blood of Heroes <\/span>\u00a0 978-0316053747<\/span><\/p>\n

Maya Angelou,<\/span>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u00a0 <\/span>0375507892<\/span><\/p>\n

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5.27.2018\u00a0 Big Bend\u2019s \u201cRambling Boy\u201d Lonn Taylor answers questions about Texas and his long literary career for the perplexed (and the merely curious)<\/h1>\n

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Lonn Taylor\u2019s Marfa for the Perplexed, published a few weeks ago by the Marfa Book Company,<\/span> might be just the read you\u2019re looking for this Memorial Day weekend as you envision your summertime wanderings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor is a familiar figure in the Big Bend region and the author of an eclectic array of books, including Texas People, Texas Places; Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy; The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon,<\/span> and a two-volume survey of Texas furniture. Taylor, who retired to Fort Davis after nearly twenty years in Washington, D.C., knows firsthand about Marfa\u2019s transformation from isolated West Texas town to international art and hipster haven. Lone Star Lit interviewed him via email for this week\u2019s segment.<\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>So, Lonn, start by telling us a little about yourself. Where did you grow up, and how would you describe that experience?<\/span><\/p>\n

LONN TAYLOR: <\/span>My father was a highway engineer for the Federal government, so I was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which is where he was stationed in 1940. If I had been born in Texas I would be a fifth-generation Texan. I grew up in the Philippine Islands, which is where Dad took us in 1946, and I finished high school and went to college in Fort Worth, which I consider my hometown, as my grandparents moved there in 1904. I was an only child and had a happy and secure childhood surrounded by books.<\/p>\n

Did you always want to be a writer? What was your first big break as a writer?<\/p>\n

I knew that I wanted to be a writer from grade school on, because writing always came easily for me, but I was a late starter in getting published. I fooled around in Austin for nearly ten years after graduating from college, writing speeches for politicians and sending articles to the Texas Observer and the Village Voice, but I could not concentrate long enough to get a book done.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 5.20.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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