Rick Meyers publishes 5 helpful books on tennis
Abilene tennis pro/coach Rick Meyers has produced five new books of tennis lessons and tips for players of all ages and levels, from beginners to champions. Three of the books are compilations from the Tennis Corner column he wrote for the Abilene Reporter-News from 1998 to 2016. The columns were ...
Les Hammond’s first novel is a good one
Abilene’s Les Hammond gets the reader’s attention right away in the first sentence of his debut novel, The Arms of God. “Mike Wakefield was fourteen years old the year Stella Clement shot Junior Clement dead.” That was 1956. The Clements’ oldest son, Trace, was 8. Their other two children were ...
New books: Amon Carter Bio, Elmer Kelton Novel
By Glenn Dromgoole If you missed the terrific one-man play Amon! The Ultimate Texan at the Paramount Theatre on Feb. 22 – or if you saw it and would like to read more about Amon G. Carter – playwright Dave Lieber has also published a book of vignettes and photos ...
Two Books About Texas
By Glenn Dromgoole Lonn Taylor, who lived in Fort Davis and wrote a very literate weekly column for the Marfa newspaper, died last summer, just a few months after his most recent book was published — “Turning the Pages of Texas” ($22.95), one of the best books ever written about ...
Book Notes – January 29, 2020
‘Abilene Forever’ one of many songs about Abilene The other day I was having lunch with a group of ladies after speaking to their club, and one of the women at our table said her grandmother or great-grandmother used to sing a song she learned in elementary school here. The ...
Book Notes – January 21, 2020
Texas murder case inspired Grisham novel By Glenn Dromgoole John Grisham says the plot for his new best-selling novel “The Guardians” (Doubleday, $29.95 hardcover) is based on a Texas murder case. “Thirty years ago,” Grisham writes in an author’s note at the end of the book, “Joe Bryan was wrongly ...
