Texas Star Trading Blog

Veteran sports writer Jim Reeves writes about TCU’s epic comeback in the 2016 Alamo Bowl.  The 11th-ranked Horned Frogs, with backup quarterback Bram Kohlhausen forced into action at the last minute, trailed number 15 Oregon 31-0 at the half. But Kohlhausen, playing his final game as a senior, wasn’t quite ...
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Viva Texas Rivers! takes up where John Graves (Goodbye to a River) left off – as a lyrical tribute to the rivers in all sections of Texas. Collected and edited by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester and supported by the The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, ...
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Book Notes by Glenn Dromgoole             Best-selling Texas novelist Steve Harrigan returns to fiction with his new novel, The Leopard Is Loose ($26 hardcover), based roughly on a true event of the 1950s when a leopard escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City. Writing as a man of 70 looking ...
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By Glenn Dromgoole The African Texans by historian Alwyn Barr offers a concise cultural history of the challenges faced by black immigrants and the contributions they have made over the years. At 100 pages, complete with sidebars and photographs, it’s a very approachable yet well-documented account of Black history in ...
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Book Notes by Glenn Dromgoole              What a great way to start a new year – a new collection of Elmer Kelton stories! Forge Books has published Law of the Land, 16 stories of the Old West from the legendary San Angelo western writer. Elmer, a favorite of Texas Star ...
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By Glenn Dromgoole Perini Steakhouse gets a full four-page essay – “A Steakhouse to Drive For” by Patricia Sharpe – in the new book Being Texan by the editors of Texas Monthly magazine ($29.99 hardcover). The 340-page book is divided into four sections covering Identity & Culture, Town & Country, ...
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