Bookish Texas • Events Around the State
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Bookish goings-on in Texas
compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life
FOR THE WEEK OF 01.19.2020
SPECIAL EVENTS:
REELpoetry, Houston, January 24-26
Teen BookFest By the Bay, Corpus Christi, January 25
EXHIBITS:
Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, August 31-February 2
Yuyi Morales: Soñadora, Abilene, November 14-May 28
Cuban Comics in the Castro Era, Austin, December 6-March 1
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19:
Austin
BookPeople, Lori Gottlieb discussing and signing Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (in conversation with Jenny Lawson), 5PM
Malvern Books, the release of Wendy Barker’s seventh full-length collection of poems, Gloss, with readings from Wendy, as well as special guests Van G. Garrett and Michael Anania, 4PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, mystery author Daniel Darrouzet signing Stories from the Tin Box: Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Lawrence Hodges signing his memoir, Raised From The Dead, 1PM
Fort Worth
Leaves Books & Tea, Writing to Tell A Story: an afternoon with three local authors discussing the process of writing, followed by a short reading and Q&A, 2PM
Houston
Archway Gallery, A Painter, A Poet, A Conversation About Cover Art: painter John Slaby and poet Carolyn Dahl discussing and signing Art Preserves What Can’t Be Saved, 6PM
Body, Mind & Soul, workshop with Monette Chilson, editor of the new anthology, Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves, 3PM
Murder By the Book, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White reading and signing All the Ways We Say Goodbye, 2PM
Writespace, workshop: “Action Scenes that Kick A**” with Matthew Hefti, 3PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Clint Townsend signing his science fiction novels, X to the Nth and Folds, 1PM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: Query Clinic with Amber Royer, 3PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Jeremy Jaramillo signing The Origin of Toothpaste, 12PM
The Woodlands
MONDAY, JANUARY 20:
Austin
BookPeople, Ransom Riggs reading and signing The Conference of the Birds (costumes encouraged), 7PM [ticketed event] #StayPeculiar
Dallas
Moody Performance Hall, 15th Annual MLK Symposium: “The Arc of the Moral Universe” featuring keynote speaker Shaka Senghor, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison, 7PM
Houston
B&N – River Oaks, Jason Lee signing God Must Have Forgotten About Me, 7PM
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21:
Austin
BookPeople, Samuel Woolley discussing and signing The Reality Game, 7PM
Native Hostel, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Punch Out the Casket, 7:15PM
College Station
Texas A&M, the Bush School presents Shawn Powers, co-author of the award- winning book The Real Cyber War: A Political Economy of Internet Freedom, 12:20PM
Dallas
Dallas Public Library, Racial Healing and the Economy: a book talk and conversation with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, 8:30AM
Half Price Books Mother Ship, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs reading and signing The Conference of the Birds, 7PM [ticketed event]
Interabang Books, Word of Mouth Poetry open mic, 6PM
El Paso
Black Orchid Lounge, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, 8PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, New Year, New You poetry open mic, 8PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, William Dylan Powell discussing and signing Secret Houston, 6:30PM
Houston Pubic Library, Houston Public Library Foundation presents Mo Rocca discussing Mobituaries: Lives Worth Retelling, 2PM
Murder By the Book, Taylor Stevens reading and signing Liars' Legacy, 6:30PM
San Antonio
The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM
Tobin Library, Voices de la Luna literary workshop and open mic, 6PM
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22:
Austin
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents “Second Skin,” 8PM
Bryan
Arbor Oaks, Tim Gregg discussing and signing RELLIS Recollections: 75 Years of Learning, Leadership, and Discovery, 3PM
Dallas
Moody Performance Hall, Arts & Letters Live: Mo Rocca discussing Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Retelling (in conversation with Krys Boyd), 7:30PM [ticketed event – SOLD OUT]
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam featuring Paulie Lipman and Valin Paige, 7:30PM
Brazos Bookstore, L. S. Berthelsen reading and signing Voyage of the Templar Guardians, 6:30PM
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Inprint Senior Memoir Writing Workshop, 10AM
Improv Houston, performance by poet Kayenne Nebula, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Chad Dundas reading and signing The Blaze, 6:30PM
San Antonio
Berry to Beans, Sun Poet’s Society open mic poetry readings, 7PM
THURSDAY, JANURY 23:
Abilene
Abilene Public Library – South, Open Mic Night, 6PM
Austin
B&N – Arboretum, Taylor Stevens signing Liars' Legacy, 6:30PM
Design Within Reach, Austin Poetry Slam & Austin Outpost Lqbtqia+, 6PM
Hogg Memorial Auditorium, Storytelling: KUT 90.5, Austin's NPR station, presents “ATXplained LIVE,” 7PM
Huston-Tillotson University, Diverse Literary Voices of Texas: Confronting White Nationalism in Literature with Hopeton Haye and John Vercher, author of Three-Fifths, 6:30PM
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents “Second Skin,” 8PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Meredith Atwood discussing and signing The Year of No Nonsense, 7PM
Winspear Opera House, AT&T Performing Arts Center presents #HearHere: Captain Scott Kelly, author of Year in Space, 7:30PM
Houston
Museum of Fine Art, Artist’s Talk: Cherise Smith discussing and signing Michael Ray Charles, 6PM
Laredo
Gallery 201, Laredo BorderSlam, 9PM
San Antonio
Trinity University, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture featuring author Robert Bullard, Ph.D., 7PM
The Twig Book Shop, D. Ellis Phelps and friends reading and signing Through Layered Limestone: Texas Hill Country: An Anthology of Place, 5PM
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24:
Austin
Malvern Books, I Scream Social Reading & Open Mic featuring Maritza De La Peña, Alisha Jilly Roff, and Dorienne Elston, 7PM
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents “Second Skin,” 8PM
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Pegasus Reading Series featuring Dorothy Chan, Brian Clifton, Vince Granata, and Amanda Yanowski, 7PM
Half Price Books Mother Ship, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Hepola discussing and signing her memoir, Blackout, 7PM
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents Chibbi Orduna, 8PM
El Paso
Fahrenheit 180, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, 8PM
Houston
Lawndale Art Center, book launch for Roberto Tejada’s Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness, 7PM
McAllen
B&N – Palms Crossing, Karen Gerhardt Fort signing Mission, Texas (Images of America), 1PM
Rockport
Bella la Brew, Aransas County Poetry Society presents national slam poet Michael Guinn + open mic, 6PM
Fulton Mansion State Historic Site, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan discussing and signing Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (in conversation with Justice Ken Wise), 6PM
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25:
Austin
B&N – Arboretum, Pamela Taylor signing Second Son, 2PM
BookPeople, Emily Arrow discussing and signing Kids' Guide to Learning the Ukulele, 2PM
BookPeople, William Gibson reading and signing Agency, 5PM [ticketed event]
Half Price Books – N. Lamar, sci-fi author Keith Rees signing One Night in Bangkok, 1PM
Half Price Books – Southpark Meadows, children’s author Laura Hudgens signing A Day at the Berns Family Farm, 1PM
Malvern Books, the Austin launch of Sarah Rose Etter’s debut novel, The Book of X, 7PM
Boerne
Patrick Heath Public Library, The Art of Writing workshop with D. Ellis Phelps, 1PM
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast and New Yorker writer Patricia Marx discussing You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples, 7:30PM [ticketed event]
El Paso
El Paso Public Library - Armijo Branch, Tumblewords Project workshop: “phonambular” with Giber E. Fonseca, 1PM
Fort Worth
B&N – Hulen Center, Mary Bridget Bradley Gorman signing You Hadn't Told Them Enough, 2PM
Houston
B&N – River Oaks, Jackie Anders signing Arion Rising, 1PM
Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
River Oaks Bookstore, Courtney Guest Kim discussing and signing How Sweet the Sound, 3PM
Writespace, workshop: “Mags to Riches II: The Art of the Article” with Jody Townsley Morse, 9:30AM
Lubbock
Medina
Medina Community Library, Writers’ League of Texas presents a “Texas Writes” workshop featuring Nan Cuba and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, 10AM
New Braunfels
The Book Haus, Local Author Visit: Charlotte Canion, 10AM
The Book Haus, Local Author Visit: Dawnie Dahir, 2PM
San Antonio
B&N – Northwoods, Teresa Herbic signing Through the Fire: Healing from Cancer, Tumors and Other Nuisances, 1PM
Dead Tree Books, Alex Salinas signing his debut poetry collection Warbles, 2PM
Tobin Library, Meet-and-Greet and Book Signing Event: join local Texas authors for an afternoon of excerpt readings, Q&As, and book signings, 2PM
Stephenville
Grumps Burgers, Book Launch Event for A Firm Place to Stand by Lori Altebaumer, 11:30AM
Sulphur Springs
The Bookworm Box, Live Author Takeover with Kim Holden, 10AM
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26:
Austin
Malvern Books, Borderlands: Issue 51 Launch Party, 4PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, co-authors Reginald Harvey Joy Strickland signing Reginald’s medical memoir, Anatomy of a Patient: A Patient’s Memoir - Looking Back to Move Forward, and Jenny Luke signing Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth Century South, 1PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Antonette M. Danna discussing and signing If These Scissors Could Talk, 4:30PM
The Cannon, Asia Society Texas presents Shuja Nawaz discussing and signing The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter U.S. Friendship and a Tough Neighborhood (followed by lunch), 11:30AM [RSVP required]
Katy Budget Books, Maria V. Snyder reading and signing the second book in her YA series, Chasing the Shadows, 2PM
Murder By the Book, Houston Chapter of Sisters in Crime meeting featuring Chief Brian Harris, a retired Houston homicide detective, speaking on crime scene investigations, 2PM
Visionary Heights, Poetry Around Houston workshop, 1PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, children’s author Mary Payton signing books from her series, Taylor’s STEM Adventures, 1PM
McAllen
B&N – Palms Crossing, Nely Gonzalez signing Una Carta y Cien Poemas Para Ti, 3PM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “The Practical Guide to Author Promotion” with Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, 3PM
Don't see your book or literary event here? Email Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete info two weeks in advance of the issue in which your event is scheduled, and we'll include it.