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 11.10.2019
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, November 2-13
EDGE: The Texas Monthly Festival, Dallas, November 8-10
Fresh Fiction's Readers & 'ritas, Allen, November 8-10
10th Annual Wizard World Austin, November 8-10
Texas Writes in ATX, Austin, November 9-10
Beaumont Comic Con, November 9-10
South Texas Book Festival, McAllen, November 10
TCU 2019 Texas Book Award, Fort Worth, November 14
2019 WITS Gala, Houston, November 14
The 2019 Writing Workshop of Austin, November 15
The 2019 Houston Writing Workshop, November 16
EXHIBITS:
The Essential J. Frank Dobie, San Marcos, through December 1
Modernist Networks: The Annette Campbell-White Collection, Austin, August 24-January 5
Yuyi Morales: Soñadora, Abilene, November 14-?
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10:
Abilene
Texas Star Trading Co., John Erickson signing Finding Hank: The Most-Often Asked Questions About Hank the Cowdog, 2PM
Austin
BookPeople, Yuen Yung discussing and signing The Blind Grind, 2PM
BookPeople, Jordan Zucker discussing and signing One Dish - Four Seasons, 5PM
BookWoman, local author JM Buckler and Patty Conner, VP of programs at Hope Alliance, present "Writing as a Tool for Healing from Sexual Assault," 3:30PM
Malvern Books, John Domini’s reading and signing The Color Inside a Melon (with special guest Lowell Mick White), 4PM
Houston
Writespace, Workshop: "Writing Between the Lines: Speculative Nonfiction" with Matthew Hefti, 3PM
Leander
Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences, NaNoWriMo Writers' Refuge, 11AM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: "Event Poetry: Tracking Personal Revelation" with Christopher Stephen Soden, 3PM
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: "Scrivener 101" with Blake Atwood, 3PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Ervin Mendlovitz signing Galvestorm 1900: A Story of Twin Flames, 12PM
Spring
Wild Stallion Vineyards, Aggie Authors Event, 2PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11:
Austin
BookPeople, Jane Ko discussing and signing Koko's Guide to Austin (in conversation with Kana LiVolsi), 7PM
Malvern Books, Austin Community College Creative Writing Department’s Literary Coffeehouse, hosted by Charlotte Gullick, featuring Ehigbor Shultz, 7PM
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Tim O'Brien discussing Dad's Maybe Book (in conversation with Ben Fountain), 7:30PM
SMU, guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves presents a slideshow lecture titled "Travel as a Spiritual Act," 7:30PM [ticketed event]
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Eoin Colfer reading and signing his new book, The Fowl Twins, 5PM
Congregation Emanu El, The Progressive Forum presents Karen Armstrong discussing her new book, The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, 7:30PM
Stude Concert Hall, Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents Elizabeth Gilbert discussing City of Girls, 7:30PM [ticketed event - SOLD OUT]
Lubbock
Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, 7:30PM
San Antonio
Southwest School of Art, Visiting Artist Talk: poet, scholar, and book artist Amaranth Borsuk, 6PM
The Twig Book Shop, E. R. Bills discussing and signing The San Marcos 10: An Antiwar Protest in Texas, 5PM
The Woodlands
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12:
Alpine
Front Street Books, Sid Balman reading and signing Seventh Flag, 6PM
Austin
Flat Track Coffee, Living Room Lit Open Mic with Chicon Street Poets, 7:15PM
Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave's Story Department: Cold Turkey, 7:30PM
Hotel Ella, Salon Series: Asher Price discussing and signing Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact, 6PM
Lazarus Brewing Co., LOGOS no. 16 featuring poets Nick Courtright and Kimbol Soques, 7:15PM
Native Hostel, Austin Poetry Slam: Open Slam featuring Radi, 7:15PM
UT - Belo New Media Center, David Wallace-Wells discussing and signing The Uninhabitable Earth, 3:30PM
Dallas
Chocolate Secrets, Sanderia Faye's LitNight Reading Series, 7PM
Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture: Carmen Goldthwaite, author of Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History, 12PM
Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council DFW presents Hampton Sides discussing and signing On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir – The Greatest Battle of the Korean War, 6PM
El Paso
The Black Orchid Lounge, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series (BWOMS), 8PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Poetry Open Mic, 8PM
Houston
Asia Society Texas Center, World Affairs Council - Greater Houston presents Michael O'Hanlon discussing and signing The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Ashley Wurzbacher reading and signing Happy Like This, 6:30PM
Lone Star College - N. Harris, The Human Library 2019, 9AM
River Oaks Bookstore, Vegas Tenold discussing and signing Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America, 5PM
Warehouse Live, The Moth StorySLAM presents "Gratitude," 7:30PM
North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Library, NaNoWriMo Writing Workshop: Publishing, 7PM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13:
Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum Series #26) book signing with Janet Evanovich, 7PM [wristbanded event]
Interabang Books, Writing Workshops Dallas panel: "Demystifying the Writing and Publishing Process" with Alex Temblador, Kathleen Kent, A. Lee Martinez, and Brooke Fossey, 6PM
SMU, Book Talk by Prof. Lolita Buckner Inniss: The Princeton Fugitive Slave, 5PM
The Wild Detectives, Inner Moonlight Poetry Reading featuring Nomi Stone and Rose Skelton, 7:30PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now: Wansgiving Community Potluck & Free Poetry Open Mic, 7:30PM
Brazos Bookstore, An Evening with novelists Hernan Diaz (In the Distance) and Mark Haber (Reinhardt's Garden), 6:30PM
Lone Star College - N. Harris, The Human Library 2019, 9AM
Roka Akor, Laurie Warren discussing and signing Wild World, Joyful Heart: Unlock Your Power to Create Health and Joy, 6:30PM
St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Blue Willow Bookshop presents Stephen Harrigan discussing and signing Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (in conversation with Judge Ken Wise), 7PM
San Antonio
Central Library, Slammin' the Stacks: poetry slam with emcee Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, 6PM
San Antonio College, Lauren Markham, author of The Faraway Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, presents "Migration Stories, Migration Myths," 7PM
The Twig Book Shop, Alyssa Banta discussing and signing The Texas Ranch Sisterhood, 5PM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14:
Austin
Austin Book Arts Center, workshop: Book Repair I, 10AM
Austin Central Public Library, BookPeople presents Jeffrey Rosen discussing and signing Conversations with RBG (in conversation with Clay Smith of Kirkus Reviews), 7PM
Austin History Center, Dr. David B. Gracy discussing and signing A Man Absolutely Sure of Himself: Texan George Washington Littlefield, 6:30PM
BookWoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring poet, playwright, and children’s book author Nicole Cortichiato, 7:15PM
Harry Ransom Center, author Megan Cook presents The First First Folio: Editing Chaucer in Renaissance England, 7PM
Malvern Books, Novel Night with H. Claire Taylor (Jessica Christ: The Beginning) and Jonathan Woods (Kiss the Devil Good Night), 7PM
Boerne
Patrick Heath Public Library, poets, writers, and artist contributors read from the anthology Through Layered Limestone, 6:30PM
Dallas
Hilton Anatole, Texas Women’s Foundation 34th Annual Luncheon with keynote speaker Elaine Welteroth, author of More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), 11:30AM
REvolution Cafe & Bookstore, Velvet: Black Future - An Afrofuturistic evening of aesthetics, music, poetry, live art, live imagination, dance, comedy, and storytelling, 8PM
El Paso
UTEP, creative writing workshop: "A Wider View of Nature" with poet Lupe Mendez, 12PM
UTEP, poetry reading with Lupe Mendez, author of Why I Am Like Tequila, 6PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Addie Tsai reading and signing Dear Twin, 6:30PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, John Langmore discussing and signing Fault Lines: Portraits of East Austin, 5PM
Sugar Land
B&N, I Am Not Afraid, Surviving Type 1 Diabetes book signing with Shelly M. Johnson, 7PM
Victoria
University of Houston, American Book Review Reading Series presents poet, scholar, and book artist Amaranth Borsuk, 11AM
Waco
Friday, November 15:
Austin
Austin Book Arts Center, workshop: Book Repair I, 10AM
BookPeople, Leanna Petronella reading and signing The Imaginary Age, 7PM
El Paso
Fahrenheit 180, Lupe Mendez poetry reading at BWOMS Open Mic, 8PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, ER Bills discussing and signing The San Marcos 10: An Antiwar Protest in Texas, 6:30PM
Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Series presents Anis Shivani, 7:30PM
Spring Branch Middle School, Blue Willow Bookshop presents Shannon Messenger discussing Legacy, the eighth book in her Keeper of the Lost Cities series, 5PM [ticketed event]
Richardson
UT Dallas, Reunion Volume 9 launch party, 6:30PM
San Angelo
Angelo State, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush discussing Sisters First, 7PM [ticketed event]
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Cliff Etheredge discussing and signing Flying With One Wing, 5PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16:
Austin
Austin Community College - Highland, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Character Driven and Intricately Plotted Mysteries" with Sherry Thomas, 10AM
B&N - Arboretum, Donovan Boyd signing Clock Maintenance, 2PM
BookPeople, Brenda Marie Smith reading and signing If Darkness Takes Us, 5PM
Carver Branch Library, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Sandi Horton, 1:30PM
Half Price Books - Southpark Meadows, Cy Young signing his thriller, Deathload, and his YA novel, Onions, 1PM
Malvern Books, Esteban Rodríguez launches his new poetry collection, Crash Course, with readings from special guest ire’ne lara silva, 7PM
Dallas
Samuel Lynne Galleries, David Yarrow book launch and exhibit opening reception: David Yarrow Photography: Americas Africa Antarctica Arctic Asia Europe, 5PM
El Paso
Armijo Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "If You Bring Nothing to This Place but Your Carcass, Keep Out" with Gustavo Enriquez, 1PM
Fort Worth
Leaves Book & Tea Shop, Writing Workshop with Mike Baldwin, 2PM
Leaves Book & Tea Shop, Panther City Review Issue #4 launch party, 4PM
Galveston
Galveston Bookshop, E.R. Bills signing The San Marcos 10: An Antiwar Protest in Texas, 2PM
Georgetown
Lark & Owl Booksellers, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "On the Craft of Writing" with Edward Carey and Michael Noll, 5:30PM
Houston
Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Lawndale Art Center, Brazos Bookstore presents An Evening with Flea and his new memoir, Acid for the Children (in conversation with Jagi Katial), 7PM [ticketed event - SOLD OUT]
Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Blue Willow Bookshop presents Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush in celebration of their first children’s book, Sisters First, 7PM [ticketed event]
Murder By the Book, Tessa Arlen will sign and discuss Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders, and Sara Rosett will sign and discuss Murder in Black Tie, 4:30PM
River Oaks Bookstore, William Dylan Powell discussing and signing Secret Houston: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, 3PM
Writespace, Workshop: "More Than Just Hitting the Books: Researching 101" with Marian Szczepanski, 9:30AM
Writespace, Workshop: "‘The Body Is and Is and Is:’ Poetry of the Body" with Theodora Ziolkowski, 1PM
Leander
Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences, Ron Franscell discussing his latest book, Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story, as well as his other true crime books, followed by a book signing, 4PM
McAllen
B&N - Palms Crossing, Meet the Author: Sylvia Weaver Rivera, and Meet the Author: Ana A. Cavazos, 2PM
B&N - Palms Crossing, Meet the Author: Rob Paulsen, 7:30PM
New Braunfels
The Book Haus, Joseph Brooks discussing and signing The Value of a Single Woman, 11AM
Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, author Merilyn Howton Marriott Meet & Greet Event, 3PM
Round Rock
Baca Center, SCBWI-Austin: Full Novel Workshop with Cory Putman Oakes, Varsha Bajaj, Nikki Loftin and Jessica Lee Anderson, 8:30AM
San Antonio
Memorial Branch Library, explore spoken word poetry and creative writing with local award-winning writer and performer Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, 3PM
Tobin Center, author Brian Kilmeade presents "America— Great From the Start," 7PM
The Twig Book Shop, E. M. Johnson signing The Greatest Treasure Ever, 11AM
San Marcos
Half Price Books, Lloyd Rosen signing Resurrection from Depression, 1PM
Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Randy Clark signing Authority from God, 1PM
B&N - Town Square, Julia Yu signing Sweeter Without Sugar, 4PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17:
Austin
Austin Book Arts Center, workshop: Bookbinding for Artists, 12PM
BookPeople, Walt Gragg reading and signing The Chosen One, 2PM
BookPeople, Marc Grossberg reading and signing The Best People, 5PM
Malvern Books, poet T.D. Walker reading and signing Small Waiting Objects, with special guests August Huerta and Holly Lyn Walrath, 1PM
El Paso
B&N - Fountains, Shanna Sarsin signing Elephant, Bunnies, and a Headless Giraffe, 2PM
Fort Worth
Leaves Book & Tea Shop, an afternoon with DFW authors Mike Baldwin, Laurie Cockerell, Ben Connelly, and Elaine Fields Smith, 2PM
Frisco
B&N - Stonebriar, Celebrate the launch of Sisters First with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, 11AM [wristbanded event]
Hurst
B&N - NE Mall, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe Series #3) book signing with Neal Shusterman, 5PM
Leander
Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences, NaNoWriMo Writers' Refuge, 11AM
Lubbock
B&N, Raider Power: Texas Tech's Journey from Unranked to the Final Four book signing with Chris Beard, 12:30PM
McAllen
B&N - Palms Crossing, Meet the Author: Gail Rollo, 2PM
San Antonio
The Keystone School, The Twig Book Shop presents Brian Kilmeade and Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History, 1PM [ticketed event]
San Marcos
The Wittliff Collections, Steven L. Davis discussing and signing The Essential J. Frank Dobie with special guests Naomi Shihab Nye, John Phillip Santos, William Jack Sibley, Chip Dameron, and Dudley Dobie, Jr., 2PM
Sugar Land
B&N, Robert Jacobus signing Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football, 2PM
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.
