LITERARY DAY
Today was a day for literature. Driving in from Lubbock was Noel Parsons, retiring director of Texas Tech Press, his wife Kristi, with Managing Editor Judith Keeling. Janet Neugebauer was supposed to come but had a called meeting at the last minute and couldn't make it. They stopped in Abilene to pick up BBQ at Harlold's and came in a little after noon. We had a great meal followed by an afternoon of talking Texas literature.

We also got to talk a little baseball because one of Judith's sons is a star baseball player. She shared a news article about him that you can look at: http://www.kansas.com/sports/nbc_baseball/story/486341.html
Lou also got to discuss her memoir with Judith who is her editor. Lou recalled her working with Noel Parsons when he was with Texas A&M Press when she published TEXAS WOMEN WRITERS. Of course they also discussed Larry McMurtry and many other Texas writers and the Literary heyday of the 1980s and where the literary future is going. Noel is optimistic that books will still be published and things are continuing to look good for the literary future.