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 03.24.2019
Special Events:
WORDfest/WORDfield 2019, Hurst, March 23-24
54th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures, Arlington, March 29
Book2Eat: 4th Annual Houston Edible Book Festival, March 30
Brazos Valley Book Festival, Bryan, March 30
Tables of Content, Dallas, March 30
Teen Book Con, League City, March 30
Ongoing Exhibits:
30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy, San Antonio, December 3-April 25
Women of Flatbed: A Retrospective, Austin, January 17-April 28
Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites Features Seven Beloved Children’s Books, Midland, February 2-April 18
Our People: The Life and Works of Author Angela Shelf Medearis, Austin, February 2-June 22
Worlds of W O N D E R: David Ezra Stein, Abilene, February 14-May 18
Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language at the Blanton, Austin, February 17-May 26
The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts, Dallas, March 1-June 15
Sunday, March 24:
Austin
BookPeople, ROBYN METCALFE speaking and signing Food Routes, 5PM
BookWoman, The 4 x 4 Reading: Four friends. Four poets. Four readings., 4PM
Malvern Books, an afternoon with poets Sharon Webster, David Cavanagh, and Steven Ray Smith, 2PM
Resistencia Books, Life & Legacy of Monseñor Romero, 2:30PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Dallas-native and historical fiction author Andrew Hudson, a.k.a. Tank Gunner, will sell and sign Paomino: Afrika Korps POWs Come To Town, and Dallas-native and inspirational author Canaan Baker will sell and sign The Disciplined Dreamer, 1PM
Houston
JCC Houston, Jamie Bernstein discussing and signing Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein, 1PM
Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School, Inprint's Cool Brains presents Adam Gidwitz of The Unicorn Rescue Society, 3PM
Hurst
WORDfest/WORDfield 2019, Hurst, March 23-24
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: "Book Marketing 101: Your Book Marketing Recipe for Sizzling Sales" with Shayla Raquel, 3PM
San Antonio
JCC San Antonio, Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner discussing and signing Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome., 5PM
The Twig Book Shop, M. Ward Leon signing Blood of the Beast, 12PM
Monday, March 25:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being book signing with Simone Davies, 7PM
BookPeople, JIM DONOVAN speaking & signing Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11, 7PM
Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, How Leaders Decide: A Timeless Guide to Making Tough Choices book signing with Greg Bustin, 7PM
Fort Worth
TCU, a public lecture by Stephen R. Platt, award-wining author of Imperial Twilight, 5PM
Houston
Murder By the Book, Jacqueline Winspear will sign and discuss The American Agent and What Would Maisie Do?, 6:30PM
Rice U, Gray/Wawro Lecture Series: Anita Hill, 6PM
Rice U, Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring poets Carmen Giménez Smith and Fady Joudah, 7:30PM
Kerrville
UGRA Lecture Hall, David K. Langford discussing and signing Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve, 6:30PM
Richardson
UTD, Creative Writing Speaker: Hector Cantú, co-creator of the BALDO comic strip, 7PM
Tuesday, March 26:
Arlington
UTA - Texas Hall, Maverick Speaker Series presents Anna Deavere Smith, 7:30PM
Austin
B&N - Sunset Valley, A Parliament of Bodies book signing with Marshall Ryan Maresca, 7PM
BookPeople, ROGER MCNAMEE speaking & signing Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, 7PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Quartefinal 4 featuring Sam Slupski, 7:15PM
Dallas
Checkered Past Winery, DFW Unplugged (Open Mic. Poetry, Music), 8PM
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosting Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, now a film by Richard Linklater, will discuss the book to film process, 7:30PM
Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors LIVE! Presents Gretchen Rubin, author of Outer Order, Inner Calm, 6PM
Interabang Books, Susan Robb discussing and signing Called: Lessons from Six Biblical Characters, 7PM
The Wild Detectives, The Writer's Garret conducts a Stone Soup poetry workshop, 7PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Poetry and Open Mic, 8PM
Houston
The Black Labrador, Houston Writers House social featuring "Humor in Writing" with Adam Hold, 6:30PM
Brazos Bookstore, Salvatore Scibona reading and signing THE VOLUNTEER, 7PM
HCC Eastside Campus, Veterans' Voices in Houston: Veterans, their family and friends, and other interested civilians are invited to participate in the Veterans’ Voices reading and discussion series, 6PM
Houston Design Center, Texas Design Week: designer Bunny Williams presentation and signing of Love Affairs With Houses, 1PM
Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Patton Oswalt reading from and discussing his late wife Michelle McNamara’s true crime thriller, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (in conversation with Michael Hagerty), 7:30PM [ticketed event]
River Oaks Bookstore, Dr. Scott Solomon discussing and signing Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution, 6PM
San Antonio
The Mix, PuroSlam Finals! judged by San Antonio Poet Laureate Octavio Quintanilla, 9:30PM
Wednesday, March 27:
Austin
Central Presbyterian Church, PATTON OSWALT speaking and signing I'll Be Gone in the Dark (in conversation with Suzy Spencer), 7PM [SOLD OUT]
Easy Tiger at the Linc, Thank You For Smoking by Paula Disbrowe cookbook launch party, 5PM
Terrazas Branch Library, Aural Literature March Reading with the Chicon Street Poets, 7:30PM
Dallas
JCC Dallas, Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin discussing and signing THE HOME EDIT: A GUIDE TO ORGANIZING AND REALIZING YOUR HOUSE GOALS, 7PM
SMU - Dedman Law, Evan Thomas discussing and signing First: Sandra Day O'Connor, 3PM
Ursuline Academy, World Affairs Council of DFW hosting Evan Thomas discussing and signing First: Sandra Day O'Connor, 6PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Open Mic featuring Samantha Slupski, 7:30PM
Brazos Bookstore, Tsitsi Dangarembga reading and signing THIS MOURNABLE BODY, 7PM
North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book with Gretchen Rubin, author of Outer Order, Inner Calm, 1PM [preceded by a ticketed reception at 12PM]
San Antonio
Trinity U, The Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs: Doris Kearns Goodwin, 7:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, Joe Bax discussing and signing Meadowbrook: The Neighborhood That Made Me, 5PM
Thursday, March 28:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Every Word You Cannot Say with poet Iain S. Thomas, 7PM
BookPeople, AYSER SALMAN speaking & signing The Wrong End of the Table, 7PM
Canyon
Burrowing Owl Books, Notes on Translations: Rilke & Beowulf with the High Plains Poetry Project, 7PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Megan Griswold will discuss and sign her memoir The Book of Help: A Memoir of Remedies, 7PM
Interabang Books, Linda Fairstein reading and signing BLOOD OATH, 7PM
El Paso
B-17 Bombers Oyster Pub, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, 8PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Jonathan Evison reading and signing LAWN BOY, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Caleb Roehrig will sign and discuss Death Prefers Blondes, 6:30PM
San Antonio
Trinity U, Stieren Arts Enrichment Series: author Debbie Millman, 6PM
Sulphur Springs
The Bookworm Box, Maya Hughes Live Author Takeover!, 7PM
Friday, March 29:
Arlington
54th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures, Arlington, March 29
UTA, Friends of the UTA Libraries present Bobbie Wygant discussing Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant's Seventy Years in Television, 7:30PM
Austin
BookPeople, NATHAN LATKA speaking & signing How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital, 7PM
Dallas
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Slam: Candy's Birthday Bash, 8PM
Interabang Books, Joe R. Lansdale reading and signing THE ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE, 7PM
Majestic Theatre, Storytelling: Snap Judgement, 8PM
El Paso
Fahrenheit 180, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series + Nicos Open Mic Series, 8PM
Houston
B&N - River Oaks, Orobosa Owie signing Be Bold, Be Confident, Be You, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Megan Griswold discussing and signing THE BOOK OF HELP, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Linda Fairstein will sign and discuss Blood Oath, 6:30PM
Saturday, March 30:
Austin
B&N - Lakeline, Local author Glyn Haynie signing Finding My Platoons Brothers: Vietnam Then and Now, 2PM
BookPeople, AMBER ROYER speaking & signing Pure Chocolate, PATRICE SARATH speaking & signing Fog Season, and NICKY DRAYDEN speaking & signing Temper, 5PM
BookWoman, Reading & Signing: Red Bricks by Anne Muccino, 5:30PM
Malvern Books, an evening with Huda Fahmy, author of Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab, 7PM
West Austin Park, the Texas Book Festival presents Bilingual Story Time with the Little Hummingbird Society, 9:30AM
St. Edward's U, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Crafting Scenes That Go BAM Instead of Blah Blah Blah" with Lindsey Lane, 10AM
Bryan
Brazos Valley Book Festival, Bryan, March 30
Corpus Christi
Art Museum of South Texas, the Corpus Christi Literary Reading Series: Reading by Author Brad Watson, 7PM
Dallas
Tables of Content, Dallas, March 30
Dallas Central Library, author Lyle Blackburn discussing Bigfoot in Texas, 1PM
Interabang Books, Cecile Richards discussing and signing MAKE TROUBLE: STAND UP, SPEAK OUT, AND FIND THE COURAGE TO LEAD, 7PM
The Writer's Garret, Workshop: "Revising Like an Editor" with Amber Helt, 1PM
El Paso
El Paso Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "The Art of Story Telling" with Celia Aguilar, 12:45PM
Fort Worth
B&N - Hulen, Pamela Arroyo signing His Story Through a Window Told, 12PM
Houston
Book2Eat: 4th Annual Houston Edible Book Festival, March 30
Brazos Bookstore, Bartee Haile discussing and signing TEXAS ENTERTAINERS, 7PM
Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Inprint House, Escritores en la casa featuring Rodrigo Hasbún, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Mack Little will sign and discuss Progenie, and Glenn Lazar Roberts will sign and discuss Quantum Marlowe, 4:30PM
League City
Teen Book Con, League City, March 30
Lubbock
B&N, Fae Game Series book signing by Jill Ramsower, 2PM
New Braunfels
The Book Haus, Author signing: Yvonne Sifuentes, 1PM
Onalaska
Onalaska Public Library, Writers' League of Texas presents "Texas Writes" with authors Joy Preble and Reavis Wortham, 1PM
Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, Rosa L. Miller discussing and signing Barren: Infertility, Grief, and Mustard Seed Faith, 3PM
San Antonio
B&N - Northwoods, There's a Witch in My Dryer book signing with Linda Lee Cross, 11:30AM
Mission San Jose, Little Free Library Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, 10AM
The Twig Book Shop, Megan Griswold signing The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies, 11AM
San Marcos
Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, Barrio Writers Youth Zine-Making Workshop, 12PM
Sunday, March 31:
Austin
BookPeople, THE STORY PIRATES presenting Digging Up Danger, 2PM [ticketed event]
BookWoman, Book Launch: Death, Unchartered by Dorothy Van Soest, 4PM
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, And We All Breathe the Same Air - Poetry Book Launch, 2PM
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Dallas-native Janet Shawgo will sell and sign Wait For Me, and Dallas-native Tom Williams will sell and sign Glory on the Hilltop: The Story of 1947 SMU Football, 1PM
Galveston
Galveston Arts Center, Jay Wehnert discussing and signing Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars, 2PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Jenny Chang, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Moody & Ryan Paradiso reading from photography and poetry journal NECK V2.0, 5PM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: "Writing Opinion Essays" with Jonathan Malesic, 3PM
San Antonio
Gallery E.V.A, Book Launch: Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse by Jo Reyes-Boitel, 2PM
The Twig Book Shop, John Knox signing Prescriptions to Cure American Healthcare, 12PM
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.
