BEAUMONT, Texas — A recent Lamar University graduate has a lot to celebrate. Shay Abigail has become a published author and her children’s book is breaking barriers. She graduated in May with a ...

Tate Tullier, a Gonzales native who lives in Austin, Texas, is a photographer who has a book obsession, and he loves to share his reviews on Instagram @booktimewithtate as a bookstagrammer — someone ...

Q: Everett High’s librarian, Deborah Payne, says she’s a “Suniesha fan.” So you help her in the library? A: I started helping in the library the first semester of my junior year. I have a passion for ...

When poet Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His new memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, straddling intersections of race, class, hearing and ...