Special Events:
45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28-Novovember 12
26th Annual San Antonio Express-News Book & Author Luncheon, October 30
ReadFest Houston 2017, November 2-4
World Fantasy 2017, San Antonio, November 2-5
7th annual Dobie Dichos: Campfires, Chili con Carne, and the Words of J. Frank Dobie, Oakville, November 3
George West Storyfest, November 3-5
First Fort Bend County Book Festival, Richmond, November 4
Frisco Book Fest, November 4
Noche de Letras, Latinx Book Fest, Austin, November 4
Lit Crawl Austin, November 4
Texas Book Festival, Austin, November 4-5
Ongoing Exhibits:
Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives (a Humanities Texas Exhibition), Brownsville, September 16-November 4
Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31
Monday, October 30:
Dallas
Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Mark Sullivan discusses and signs Beneath a Scarlet Sky, 7PMHalf Price Books Mothership, New York Times bestselling-author Maggie Stiefvater will discuss and sign her new fantasy book, All the Crooked Saints, 7:30PM [pass required]
Teatro Dallas, Arts & Letters Live presents An Evening Celebrating Two Giants: Juan Rulfo and Cardona Peña, 7:30PM
Frisco
B&N - Stonebriar, YA author event: Jessica Taylor signs A Map for Wrecked Girls, Julie Murphy signs Ramona Blue, and Samantha Mabry signs All the Wind in the World, 7PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Slavs and Tatars discuss and sign MOLLA NASREDDIN, 7PM
Lawndale Art Center, 8th Annual MUSICAL AND LITERARY OFRENDA, 6PM
San Antonio
B&N - Northwoods, Blessed in the Darkness: How All Things Are Working for Your Good book signing with Joel Osteen, 7PM
Tuesday, October 31:
Austin
Chez Zee American Bistro, Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, 8PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Halloween Edition featuring Lino Anunciacion, hosted by Jomar, 7PM
Houston
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Halloween Edition featuring Lino Anunciacion, hosted by Jomar, 7PM
Houston
San Antonio
The Korova, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
Trinity University, Trinity Review Halloween, 7PM
Trinity University Holt Center, Words Matter Series: Kenny Fries and Sheila Black will be speaking on "Writing the Body," 7PM
Wednesday, November 1:
Austin
Trinity University, Trinity Review Halloween, 7PM
Trinity University Holt Center, Words Matter Series: Kenny Fries and Sheila Black will be speaking on "Writing the Body," 7PM
Wednesday, November 1:
Austin
Austin Public Library - Central, #NaNoWriMo Author Panel, 6PM
BookPeople, JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS speaking & signing Real American, 7PM
Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Chuck Bailey discusses Picturing Texas Politics, 12PM
BookPeople, JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS speaking & signing Real American, 7PM
Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Chuck Bailey discusses Picturing Texas Politics, 12PM
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Pegasus Reading Series featuring Sean Enfield, Matthew Pitt, Tatiana Ryckman, and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, 7PM
Interabang Books, Eileen Myles reads and signs AFTERGLOW: A DOG MEMOIR, 7PM
SMU, 29 Acres and SMU Veterans in Business host Ron Susskind discussing Life Animated: A Tale of Autism and Hidden Potential, 6PM
Interabang Books, Eileen Myles reads and signs AFTERGLOW: A DOG MEMOIR, 7PM
SMU, 29 Acres and SMU Veterans in Business host Ron Susskind discussing Life Animated: A Tale of Autism and Hidden Potential, 6PM
Denton
UNT on the Square, Judge Tonya Parker of the 116th Civil District Court will conduct a discussion with Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and David Collins, author of Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas, 5PM
Houston
UNT on the Square, Judge Tonya Parker of the 116th Civil District Court will conduct a discussion with Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and David Collins, author of Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas, 5PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Author Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis will discuss and sign their newest collaboration, THE WHIZ MOB AND THE GRENADINE KID, 6PM
Brazos Bookstore, John Freeman discusses FREEMAN’S VOL. 4, 7PMBlue Willow Bookshop, Author Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis will discuss and sign their newest collaboration, THE WHIZ MOB AND THE GRENADINE KID, 6PM
The Jung Center, Emily Esfahani Smith discusses The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, 5:30PM
Irving
South Irving Library, How Comics Get Made with Author Andy Hirsch, 5PM
San Antonio
Gemini Ink, Workshop: "Creative Entrepreneurship: Methods for the Working Writer" with Kenny Fries, 6PM
Wichita Falls
Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Jan Jarboe Russell, author of The Train to Crystal City, is the next guest for Midwestern State University’s Speakers and Issues Series, 7PM
Thursday, November 2:
Thursday, November 2:
Austin
Austin Conference Center, Texas Conference for Women featuring Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In and Option B; Mary Jennings Hegar, author of Shoot Like a Girl; Tiffany Dufu, author of Drop the Ball; Sarah Robb O’Hagan, author of Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat; and Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, 7:30AM
BookPeople, LISA FAIN (the Homesick Texan) speaking & signing Queso! (in partnership with Edible Austin for the eats), 7PM
CamibaArt, december magazine launch party and reading featuring Michael Anania, Harold Whit Williams, and Tim Krcmarik, 6:30PM
Malvern Books, An Evening with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, and Owen Egerton, author of Hollow, 7PM
Resistencia Bookstore, Recuerdos y Letras: An Evening with Author Sarah Rafael García with a creative writing workshop, and a reading and signing of SanTana’s Fairy Tales, 6:30PM
UT - Avaya, The Michener Center for Writers hosts poet Marie Howe, 7:30PM
The Writing Barn, Workshop: "The Personal Essay: Writing the World" with Sarah Smarsh, 6:30PM
BookPeople, LISA FAIN (the Homesick Texan) speaking & signing Queso! (in partnership with Edible Austin for the eats), 7PM
CamibaArt, december magazine launch party and reading featuring Michael Anania, Harold Whit Williams, and Tim Krcmarik, 6:30PM
Malvern Books, An Evening with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, and Owen Egerton, author of Hollow, 7PM
Resistencia Bookstore, Recuerdos y Letras: An Evening with Author Sarah Rafael García with a creative writing workshop, and a reading and signing of SanTana’s Fairy Tales, 6:30PM
UT - Avaya, The Michener Center for Writers hosts poet Marie Howe, 7:30PM
The Writing Barn, Workshop: "The Personal Essay: Writing the World" with Sarah Smarsh, 6:30PM
Canyon
West Texas A&M, Poetry reading by Denise Duhamel, 7PMCollege Station
The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center, Humorous Poetry by Poet Col. Wayne Edwards, The Family Poet, 10:30AM & 12:30PM
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas Arboretum, A Writer's Garden Literary Symposium and Luncheon featuring Jessica Dupuy, author of United Tastes of Texas: Authentic: Recipes from All Corners of the Lone Star State, and Pamela Walker, author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, 9:30AM
Deep Vellum Books, Bradley Spinelli reads and signs The Painted Gun (in conversation with David Hale Smith), 7PM
Deep Vellum Books, Bradley Spinelli reads and signs The Painted Gun (in conversation with David Hale Smith), 7PM
Half Price Books Mothership, designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer Jonny Sun will discuss and sign his illustrated story everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too, 7PM [pass required]
Interabang Books, Zach & Dr. Kelly Weinersmith discuss and sign SOONISH, 7PM
The Wild Detectives, Melissa Febos reads and signs her collection of essays, Abandon Me, 7:30PM
Fort Worth
TCU, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Presents 2017 Fall Speaker Series with Jonathan Eig, author of Ali, 7PM
Interabang Books, Zach & Dr. Kelly Weinersmith discuss and sign SOONISH, 7PM
The Wild Detectives, Melissa Febos reads and signs her collection of essays, Abandon Me, 7:30PM
Fort Worth
TCU, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Presents 2017 Fall Speaker Series with Jonathan Eig, author of Ali, 7PM
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) will sign her newest cookbook THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: COME AND GET IT!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives, 5PM [ticketed event]Brazos Bookstore, Eileen Myles reads and signs AFTERGLOW, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Stuart Woods will sign his new Stone Barrington novel, Quick and Dirty, 6:30PM
River Oaks Bookstore, Marec Bela Steffens reads and signs Thyme Will Tell: The Adventures of an Old-School European Highwayman in Houston, Texas, 5PM
Lubbock
Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Program Reading Series hosts Pushcart Prize-winning poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, 7:30PM
Murder By the Book, Stuart Woods will sign his new Stone Barrington novel, Quick and Dirty, 6:30PM
River Oaks Bookstore, Marec Bela Steffens reads and signs Thyme Will Tell: The Adventures of an Old-School European Highwayman in Houston, Texas, 5PM
Lubbock
Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Program Reading Series hosts Pushcart Prize-winning poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, 7:30PM
San Antonio
Pearl Stable, the San Antonio Book Festival presents Get Lit with Mark Bittman, author of How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, 6PMUT Health San Antonio Holly Auditorium, Gail Saltz, M.D. discusses and signs The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder & Genius, 12PM
Sugar Land
Sugar Land
BookPeople, LYDIA KANG speaking & signing Quackery (in conversation with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz), 7PM
Malvern Books, launch of poet Kathleen Peirce’s Vault with Lisa Olstein, hosted by Cecily Parks, 7PM
Resistencia Bookstore, Texican Lit Celebration: Austin, San Antonio, Houston, & Dallas Unite featuring Tony Diaz, Sylvana Avila Alonzo, Josue Gabriel de Montemayor, and Bárbara Renaud González, 7PM
Dallas
Malvern Books, launch of poet Kathleen Peirce’s Vault with Lisa Olstein, hosted by Cecily Parks, 7PM
Resistencia Bookstore, Texican Lit Celebration: Austin, San Antonio, Houston, & Dallas Unite featuring Tony Diaz, Sylvana Avila Alonzo, Josue Gabriel de Montemayor, and Bárbara Renaud González, 7PM
Dallas
Interabang Books, Eryk Pruitt reads and signs WHAT WE RECKON, 7PM
Moody Performance Hall, Oral Fixation presents "Jump Off a Cliff" featuring Gretchen Carlson, author of Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back, 8PM
Houston
Moody Performance Hall, Oral Fixation presents "Jump Off a Cliff" featuring Gretchen Carlson, author of Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back, 8PM
Houston
Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Michael Sofranko, 8:30PM
Murder By the Book, Ryan Gattis will sign and discuss Safe, 6:30PM
Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Eugenides reads FRESH COMPLAINT, 7:30PM [ticketed event]
Rice University, 2017 Camden Series speaker: Professor Julian Yates, author of Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression, 4PM
University of Houston, Glass Mountain Write-a-Thon, 9AM
University of Houston - Cullen Performance Hall, The Moth GrandSLAM III: "Out on a Limb," 7:30PM
San Antonio
Murder By the Book, Ryan Gattis will sign and discuss Safe, 6:30PM
Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Eugenides reads FRESH COMPLAINT, 7:30PM [ticketed event]
Rice University, 2017 Camden Series speaker: Professor Julian Yates, author of Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression, 4PM
University of Houston, Glass Mountain Write-a-Thon, 9AM
University of Houston - Cullen Performance Hall, The Moth GrandSLAM III: "Out on a Limb," 7:30PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Special Story time with children's author and illustrator Jose Lucio, 10:30AM
UTSA, Creative Writing Reading Series hosts poet Emmy Pérez, 7PM
Saturday, November 4:
Austin
UTSA, Creative Writing Reading Series hosts poet Emmy Pérez, 7PM
Saturday, November 4:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Twinkle Zaman signs her new poetry collection, Twenty Something, 2PM
Davis Gallery, Robert Craig Bunch and artists Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Steve Brudniak, and Steve Wiman will sign The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, TBA
Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Bruce Bond, Yahia Lababidi & Kurt Heinzelman, 7PM
Sur La Table, James Beard Taste America Austin: cooking demonstrations and book signings by All-Star Ludo Lefebvre and local star Tyson Cole, 10AM
Davis Gallery, Robert Craig Bunch and artists Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Steve Brudniak, and Steve Wiman will sign The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, TBA
Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Bruce Bond, Yahia Lababidi & Kurt Heinzelman, 7PM
Sur La Table, James Beard Taste America Austin: cooking demonstrations and book signings by All-Star Ludo Lefebvre and local star Tyson Cole, 10AM
UT Fine Arts Library, University of Texas Libraries presents "Experiencing Artist's Books," 5:30PM
Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel discussion and signing with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, 5PMDallas
Interabang Books, Doni Blair discusses and signs EVEN IF IT KILLS ME, 2PM
El Paso
B&N - Sunland Park, Jesus in the Manger book signing with Linda Ward, 2PM
El Paso Public Library - Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: "Compression" with author Kit Wren, 12:45PM
Houston
Alley Theatre, Savannah Blue Arts & Outreach presents twenty of the nation's top women poets in Women On The Bayou Poetry Slam, a totally different performance that will combine the art of Poetry and Dance, 7PMEl Paso Public Library - Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: "Compression" with author Kit Wren, 12:45PM
Houston
B&N - River Oaks, My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes.: A Journey Through Loss with Art and Color book signing with Roger Hutchison, 1PM
Brazos Bookstore, Joseph Keckler reads and signs DRAGON AT THE EDGE OF A FLAT WORLD, 7PM
Half Price Books - North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
Young Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Michelle Burk, Christina Martinez, Glynn Irby, Chuck Wemple, 2PM
River Oaks Bookstore, Valerie Peterson-Kelly read and sign Reflections Yours and Mine: A Poetic Memoir, and Elliott G. Kelly reads and signs The Awaited Journey, 3PM
Writespace, Workshop: "Jumpstart Your Writing" with Dr. Cindy Childress, 1PM
Writespace, Workshop: "Jumpstart Your Writing" with Dr. Cindy Childress, 1PM
Humble
Half Price Books, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
San Antonio
Austin
Malvern Books, an after-hours reading featuring poets Mahogany Browne, Sam Sax, and Saretta Morgan, hosted by Carrie Fountain, 6:30PM
Dallas
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, 2PM
Half Price Books Mothership, journalist and editor Annette McGivney will sell and sign Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth, 1PM
The Mix Co-working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas Seminar: "SELF-EDITING SEMINAR: How to Self-Edit: 50 Essential Tips for Honing Every Manuscript" with Blake Atwood, 3PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, C. Morgan Babst reads and signs THE FLOATING WORLD, 5PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
Red Oak
Oaks Fellowship Church, Candace Payne discusses Laugh It Up, 6PM
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Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
Red Oak
Oaks Fellowship Church, Candace Payne discusses Laugh It Up, 6PM
