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 02.02.2020
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Children’s Book Fair, Austin, February 1-2
Let’s Write About Sex Education: a Journalism Workshop for Grades 9-12, Austin, February 1-2
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi 23rd annual University Authors’ Day, February 6
Texas Author Project Awards Reception, Austin, February 6
First Annual San Antonio African American Book Festival, February 8
TexMoot: Third Annual Texas Literature & Language Symposium, Houston, February 8
Annual Romance Readers’ Social, Pflugerville, February 8
Austin Anarchist Book Fair, February 9
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
Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer, Austin, February 1-July 19
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2:
Austin
BookPeople, Shauna Shapiro discussing and signing Good Morning, I Love You (in conversation with Kristin Neff), 5PM
Malvern Books, the Lion & the Pirate inclusive open mic, 1PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Deanna King signing Twist of Fate, and Chevron Ross signing Weapons of Remorse, 1PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “How to Find Your Narrative Voice” with Eden Elieff, 3PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3:
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, poet Nick Flynn reading from and signing I Will Destroy You, 6PM
Murder By the Book, Gregg Hurwitz discussing and signing Into the Fire, 6:30PM
Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI-Houston meeting: “The Illustrated Biography of an Illustrator & Muralist, Too” with illustrator Bill Ferguson, 7PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Katherine Hampsten and Kate Murphy, author of You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters, 5PM
University of the Incarnate Word, 2020 Pierre Lecture: “The Christian Bible as a Text of Migration” by Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo, co-editor of Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration, 7PM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4:
Austin
BookPeople, Jenn Shapland discussing and signing My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (in conversation with Adeena Reitberger), 7PM
BookWoman, Dr. Lauren Jae Gutterman discussing and signing Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage, 6:30PM
Chez Zee America Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series with S. C. Gwynne discussing and signing Hymns of the Republic, 6PM
Native Hostel, Austin Poetry Slam, 7:15PM
The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon, 7PM
Dallas
SMU, Sun & Star: Understanding Religious Nationalism in Japan with author Dr. Levi McLaughlin, 12PM
Denton
UNT, UNT Fine Arts Series featuring improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author Tanya Tagaq, 7:30PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Open Mic Poetry Night, 8PM
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Erin Hunter discussing and signing The Spirit Eater, the newest book in the Bravelands series, 5PM
San Antonio
The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM
The Woodlands
B&N, Beth Moore signing Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, 11AM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5:
Austin
BookWoman, Kate Messner discussing and signing Chirp, 6PM
Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Joe Nick Patoski discussing and signing Austin to ATX, 12PM
College Station
B&N, Beth Moore signing Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, 11AM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now poetry, 7:30PM
B&N – River Oaks, John Bacon signing Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football, 6PM
Italian Cultural & Community Center, “Giordano Bruno: the Birth of Science” with Dr. Luca Oliva, author of L'ontologia della materia: Giordano Bruno tra Otto e Novecento, 7PM
Museum of Fine Art, Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture: a talk with author Abigail Rockwell about her grandfather, Norman Rockwell, 6:30PM
San Antonio
Berry to Beans, Sun Poet’s Society open mic poetry readings, 7PM
SAY Sí, San Antonio Book Festival Author Lineup Announcement Party, 6PM
Trinity University, Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series presents author Dr. Hakeem M. Oluseyi, 7:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, Paul Yoon discussing and signing Run Me to Earth, 5PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6:
Dallas
Interabang Books, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley discussing and signing The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and De-Stress Your Money for Good, 6PM [entrance fee]
Meadows Museum, 2020 Godbey Lecture Series: Joan of Arc in History and Literature with author Dr. Bonnie Wheeler, 5:15PM
Park City Club, World Affairs Council-DFW presents Anthony Kronman discussing and signing The Assault on American Excellence, 12PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Kate Messner discussing and signing Chirp, 5PM
Holocaust Museum Houston, a conversation with award-winning author Joseph Kanon, moderated by Ernie Manouse, 6:30PM
Rice University, “Antisemitism, Pornography, and American Jews” with Dr. Josh Lambert, author of Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture, 4PM
Rice University, The Latin American Writer-in-Residency Series’ Lecture with Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, 5PM
San Antonio
Trinity University, “The Distinguished Day: How Clock Time Arrived in Rome” with Dr. James Ker, author of The Deaths of Seneca, 4PM
San Marcos
Texas State University, a reading and signing by poet Adrian Matejka, author of Map to the Stars, 3:30PM
Southlake
B&N, Beth Moore signing Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, 3:30PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7:
Alpine
Front Street Books, Nicholas McIntire discussing and signing The Hunter’s Gambit, 6PM
Austin
BookPeople, Kate Murphy discussing and signing You're Not Listening, 7PM
BookWoman, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton reading and signing Newsworthy: Poems, 7PM
Canyon
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, photographer and author Michael Nye opens the “My Heart Is Not Blind” exhibition, 6PM
Dallas
Hilton Anatole, World Affairs Council-DFW presents “Reimagining America’s Foreign Policy” with author Victor Davis Hanson, 12PM
Wyly Theatre, a conversation with Jessica Simpson to celebrate the launch of her new memoir, Open Book, 8PM [ticketed event]
Houston
Discovery Green, WITS youth performance poetry session, 6:30PM
Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Series featuring John Milkereit, 8:30PM
Museum of Fine Art, Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture: “Galloping Horses: Artist Xu Beihong and His Family in Mao’s China” with author Xu Fangfang, 3PM
Kyle
Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, a reading and signing by poet Adrian Matejka, author of Map to the Stars, 7:30PM
Southlake
B&N, Kate Messner signing Chirp, 9AM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8:
Austin
Austin Book Arts Center, Open House Hands-on Book Arts and Printing Ink, 10AM
BookPeople, Linsey Miller discussing and signing Belle Révolte (in conversation with author Rosiee Thor), 2PM
BookPeople, Donna Kornhaber discussing and signing Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary, 5PM
Boerne
Patrick Heath Public Library, book signing with San Antonio romance authors Pam Humphrey, Storm Navarro, and Holly Castillo, 2PM
Cedar Park
Half Price Books, local YA author Carol Beth Anderson reading and signing The Frost Eater, 1PM
Dallas
B&N – Preston/Royal, Cynthia Marlowe signing R Is the Roughest Sound, 1PM
Interabang Books, Laura Bull discussing and signing From Individual to Empire, 6PM
The Writer’s Garret, Ekphrasis Workshop With Logen Cure, 1PM
DeSoto
DeSoto Civic Center, Dallas Area Writers Group open mic night, 7:45PM
El Paso
UTEP Centennial Museum, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Art Shots: Write the Image, Part 2” with Jeanette DesBoine, 1PM
Frisco
B&N – Stonebriar, Sara Pennypacker signing Here in the Real World, 12PM
Georgetown
Lark & Owl Booksellers, Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey reading and signing The Old Truck, 3PM
Houston
B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Miriam Kalman Friedman discussing and signing Rivers of Light: The Live of Claire Myers Owens, 3PM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Robert Jacobus discussing and signing Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football, 11AM
Brazos Bookstore, Ashley Bryan reading and signing Infinite Hope, 2PM
Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Rudyard’s, Defunkt Magazine Anti-Valentine Bash, 8PM
Writespace, workshop: “Handling Time: A Hands-On How To” with Mark Haber, 1PM
Laredo
The Phoenix Bookshop, panel discussion: “Feminism and the Macho” with Nicolas Flores, author of Sex as a Political Condition, and Holly Dykstra, 3PM
Lubbock
B&N, Jenny Luke signing Delivered by Midwives, 3PM
McAllen
B&N – Palms Crossing, Amy Glover signing Unresectable: Keeper of the Cure, 1PM
New Braunfels
The Book Haus, Story time: Houston author Amy Brazda reading and signing Jesse Unleashed, 10:30AM
The Book Haus, book signing with San Antonio romance authors Erin Ljungdahl, Sasha Summers, Maida Malby, Patricia Walters-Fischer, and Karen Kinna + giveaways, 2PM
San Antonio
B&N – Bandera Pointe, book signing with San Antonio romance authors Janalyn Knight & Suanne Schafer, 2PM
B&N – La Cantera, Meet J.G. Schwartz, author of Inventing Madness and The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy, 12PM
B&N – La Cantera, book signing with San Antonio romance authors Jolene Navarro & Cerise DeLand, 2PM
The Twig Book Shop, Louise Brunner signing What Fathers Should Tell Their Daughters: Communication Between Fathers and Daughters about Obedience and Relationships for Ages Ten to Eighteen, 11AM
Tyler
Half Price Books, Ciara O’Neal signing her picture book, Flamingos Aren’t For Everyone, 3PM
Webster
B&N, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Terry Jude Miller, 10:30AM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9:
Austin
BookPeople, E. R. Bills discussing and signing Pendulum Grim, 5PM
Dallas
B&N – Preston/Royal, Margie Woods signing Happy Tunes, 2PM
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Crystal Allison Gore signing her romantic thriller, Silver Heart, and Demeshia Lavette signing her memoir, Refined, 1PM
Pan African Connection, workshop and book signing: Transform Your Mind and Discover Your Purpose, Vision, and Legacy, 1PM
Granbury
Arts & Letters Bookstore, Lori Wilde signing her Twilight, Texas series, 5PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Blair Imani discussing and signing Making Our Way Home, 4PM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “The Body and the Essay” with Rebecca A. Spears, 3PM
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “How to Write a Great Novel Synopsis” with Amber Royer, 3PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, J. E. Kilpatrick signing The Year of My Novela, 12PM
Stephenville
Chapel on the Bosque, the Pickers & Poets Singer-Songwriter series featuring Courtney Patton, 4PM
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