Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of February 26-March 4, 2018: Special Events:
Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15
FESTIBA 2018: Festival of International Books & Arts, Brownsville, February 26-March
11th Annual Johnson City Library Writers Conference, February 28
32nd Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Alpine, March 2-3
RGV Writers Conference, McAllen, March 3
Ongoing Exhibits:
OK, I'll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, Dallas, January 18-March 28
Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards (NCCIL exhibition), Abilene, February 8-May 19
HOMETOWN TEXAS photography exhibition, Dallas, February 17-May 5
Monday, February 26:
Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards (NCCIL exhibition), Abilene, February 8-May 19
HOMETOWN TEXAS photography exhibition, Dallas, February 17-May 5
Monday, February 26:
Dallas
Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Paula Shoyer discussing signing The Healthy Jewish Kitchen (includes a cooking demonstration), 7PMDallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Amy Bloom and her new novel, White Houses, 7:30PM
Deep Vellum Book, a thrilling night of conversation as we celebrate the re-launch of Joe Milazzo’s Crepuscule W/ Nellie (with Robin Myrick, Brenda Randall, and David Eric Tomlinson), 7PM
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, C.C. Hunter will discuss and sign her new teen novel, THIS HEART OF MINE, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Watt Casey Jr. discussing and signing MY GUITAR IS A CAMERA, 7PM
Main Street Theater - Rice Village, Wordsmyth Theater Co. invites you to a reading of The Secretary, by Kyle John Schmidt, followed a moderated talk-back with the playwright, 7PM
Tuesday, February 27:
Main Street Theater - Rice Village, Wordsmyth Theater Co. invites you to a reading of The Secretary, by Kyle John Schmidt, followed a moderated talk-back with the playwright, 7PM
Tuesday, February 27:
BookPeople, AMY BLOOM speaking & signing White Houses, 7PM [ticketed event]
LBJ Library, Hulu series “The Looming Tower” Preview and Conversation with Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, 6PM [a Friends event]
Malvern Books, Malvern’s Multi-Verse Reading Series meets I Scream Social Reading Series with Dr. Joe, Annar Veröld, and Schandra Madha, 7PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring UT Spitshine, 7:15PM
DallasInterabang Books, Kayleen Schaefer discussing and signing TEXT ME WHEN YOU GET HOME, 7PM
Lucky Dob Books - Casa Linda, Book Reading & Live Music with Emily Ann Peterson, 7PM
Denton
UNT, Visiting Writers Series presents a reading with Ruth Ellen Kocher, award-winning author of seven books of poetry, 8PM
LBJ Library, Hulu series “The Looming Tower” Preview and Conversation with Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, 6PM [a Friends event]
Malvern Books, Malvern’s Multi-Verse Reading Series meets I Scream Social Reading Series with Dr. Joe, Annar Veröld, and Schandra Madha, 7PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring UT Spitshine, 7:15PM
Dallas
Lucky Dob Books - Casa Linda, Book Reading & Live Music with Emily Ann Peterson, 7PM
Denton
UNT, Visiting Writers Series presents a reading with Ruth Ellen Kocher, award-winning author of seven books of poetry, 8PM
Houston
Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting: Guest Speakers Leigh Owen and Julie Grob, coordinators for instruction at UH libraries, will present about the Rare Books Collections, 6:30PMMurder By the Book, Steve Cavanagh will sign and discuss The Plea, 6:30PM
San Antonio
The Mix, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
Trinity University, The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, 8PM
The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 5PM
Seguin
Texas Lutheran University, Brown Distinguished Lecture: Award-winning actress Diane Guerrero, author of In The Country We Love: My Family Divided (book signing follows), 7:30PM
Southlake
B&N - Town Square, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 6PM
Wednesday, February 28:
Austin
BookPeople, BONNIE SIEGLER speaking & signing Signs of Resistance [with featured panelists: Alicia Weigel, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Deeds Not Words; Xochi Solis, artist and member of the Chulita Vinyl Club; and Rebecca McInroy host of KUT’s “News & Brews”(NPR), moderator], 7PM
Resistencia Books, Against the Deportation Terror: A Reading & Book Signing with Rachel Ida Bluff, 7:30PM
Trinity University, The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, 8PM
The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 5PM
Seguin
Texas Lutheran University, Brown Distinguished Lecture: Award-winning actress Diane Guerrero, author of In The Country We Love: My Family Divided (book signing follows), 7:30PM
Southlake
B&N - Town Square, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 6PM
Wednesday, February 28:
Austin
BookPeople, BONNIE SIEGLER speaking & signing Signs of Resistance [with featured panelists: Alicia Weigel, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Deeds Not Words; Xochi Solis, artist and member of the Chulita Vinyl Club; and Rebecca McInroy host of KUT’s “News & Brews”(NPR), moderator], 7PM
Resistencia Books, Against the Deportation Terror: A Reading & Book Signing with Rachel Ida Bluff, 7:30PM
Interabang Books, Chick Lit Luncheon Kick-Off Party: The Chick Lit Luncheon is Community Partners of Dallas’ largest fundraiser of the year, raising money to support the charity’s mission of ensuring safety, restoring dignity, and inspiring hope for the abused and neglected children served by Dallas County Child Protective Services, 6PM
SMU - Cox School of Business, Dr. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey discussing Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World, 2PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
B&N - Westheimer, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Mutabilis Press Reunion Reading, 6PM
B&N - Westheimer, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Mutabilis Press Reunion Reading, 6PM
Murder By the Book, Rhys Bowen will sign and discuss her stand-alone novel, The Tuscan Child, 6:30PM
Talento Bilingue de Houston, Celebrate 20 Years of Nuestra Palabra And The Expansion of the Showcase: The Latino Agenda Voting and the Upcoming Elections, 7PM
San Antonio
Sabina's Coffee House, The Ocotillo Review V2.1 Release Party & Reading, 6:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, Cristy Nickel discussing and signing The Code Red Revolution, 5PM
Thursday, March 1:
Talento Bilingue de Houston, Celebrate 20 Years of Nuestra Palabra And The Expansion of the Showcase: The Latino Agenda Voting and the Upcoming Elections, 7PM
San Antonio
Sabina's Coffee House, The Ocotillo Review V2.1 Release Party & Reading, 6:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, Cristy Nickel discussing and signing The Code Red Revolution, 5PM
Thursday, March 1:
Austin
BookPeople, MICHAEL NOLL speaking & signing The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction (in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers), 7PM
BookWoman, Dirt: A Reading with C. Prudence Arceneaux, 7PM
College Station
Texas A&M - Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, opening of the exhibition, The Angel in the Marble: Selections from the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers: notable paper marbler and artist Tom Leech will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, “Your Brain on Paper: Musings from a Papermaker’s Vat,” 6:30PM (live demonstration of several methods of paper decoration, including marbling, suminagashi, and paste paper, 2:30PM)
Dallas
Interabang Books, Tayari Jones reading and signing AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, Oprah's latest pick, 7PMBookWoman, Dirt: A Reading with C. Prudence Arceneaux, 7PM
College Station
Texas A&M - Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, opening of the exhibition, The Angel in the Marble: Selections from the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers: notable paper marbler and artist Tom Leech will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, “Your Brain on Paper: Musings from a Papermaker’s Vat,” 6:30PM (live demonstration of several methods of paper decoration, including marbling, suminagashi, and paste paper, 2:30PM)
Dallas
Houston
Lubbock
Texas Tech, Creative Writing Alumni Reading: poet Michael Shewmaker, award-winning author of Penumbra, and writer, translator, and former newspaper journalist Sarah Viren, award-winning author of Mine, 8PM
San Antonio
Artpace, Book Publication: FIRST FAMILIES OF BEXAR (an SA300 Tricentennial Event), 8:30AM
Love Shack Boutique, Unf#ck Your Brain Book Reading & Signing with Dr. Faith Harper, 7PM
Love Shack Boutique, Unf#ck Your Brain Book Reading & Signing with Dr. Faith Harper, 7PM
Barshop Jewish Community Center, JCC Author & Speaker Series: Sarge presents Black Boychik, 7PM
Trinity University, MAS Alvarez Seminar: The Canción Cannibal Cabaret with Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz, 6PM
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing and discussion with poet PW Covington, author of The Motor Hotels of Central Avenue, 1PM
Sugar Land
Trinity University, MAS Alvarez Seminar: The Canción Cannibal Cabaret with Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz, 6PM
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing and discussion with poet PW Covington, author of The Motor Hotels of Central Avenue, 1PM
Sugar Land
B&N - First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM
Victoria
UHV, American Book Review Reading Series hosts Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12PM
Friday, March 2:
Austin
Victoria
UHV, American Book Review Reading Series hosts Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12PM
Friday, March 2:
Austin
BookPeople, STEVEN W. HORN speaking and signing When They Were Young, CINDY LO speaking and signing Behind the Red Velvet Curtain, and DR. LYNN LATIFAH HOBIN speaking & signing Alchemy of Awakening, 7PM
Resistencia Books, Celebrating Words & Verses of Black Women: A Café Libro Open Mic featuring Tonya Lyles, Chandra Washington, Cindy Elizabeth, and Amanda Johnston, 7:30PM
Dallas
Resistencia Books, Celebrating Words & Verses of Black Women: A Café Libro Open Mic featuring Tonya Lyles, Chandra Washington, Cindy Elizabeth, and Amanda Johnston, 7:30PM
Dallas
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Dr. Seuss Bus Visit: Random House Children’s Books takes Dr. Seuss on the road, 5PMBrazos Bookstore, Thomas Pierce reading and signing THE AFTERLIVES, 7PM
Discovery Green, Orbit Slam Series, 6PM
Inprint House, Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Reyes Ramirez, 8:30PM
Marriott Marquis, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Friends 12th annual Encore Luncheon: Pulitzer Prize-finalist and critically-acclaimed novelist Susan Choi will be honored as HSPVA’s 2018 Distinguished Alumna, 11:30AM
Humble
Humble Civic Center, Space City Preliminary Slam: Houston poets, spoken word artists, and emcees, ages 13-19, compete for a spot on the Meta-Four Houston youth slam team, ranked #5 in the world, 6PM
Midland
B&N, Cristy Nickel signing Code Red Revolution, 4PM
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing and discussion with poet Vladimir Swirynsky, 1:30PM
Saturday, March 3:
Austin
ACC Highland Campus, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision" with Chaitali Sen, 10AM
Austin History Center, Meet the Author: Elizabeth Clare discussing and signing The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900, 3PM
BookPeople, story time with Susan Kralovansky, local author of Counting Colors in Texas, 10:30AM
BookPeople, WALTER MOSLEY speaking & signing Down the River Unto the Sea, 2PM [ticketed event]
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Short story writing workshop led by author Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, 3PM
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents "Texas Bound I": Chamblee Ferguson reads "Preface to My Autobiography" and "The Grand Old Opera" by Steve Martin; Liza Marie Gonzalez reads “Everything is Far from Here” by Cristina Henríquez; Sally Vahle reads “Cleaning Your Gun” by Laurie Lynn Drummond; Actor to be announced reads “Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses” by Bret Anthony Johnston, 7:30PM
Interabang Books, Analicia Sotelo reading from and signing VIRGIN: POEMS, 7PM
Dallas Museum of Art, Short story writing workshop led by author Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, 3PM
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents "Texas Bound I": Chamblee Ferguson reads "Preface to My Autobiography" and "The Grand Old Opera" by Steve Martin; Liza Marie Gonzalez reads “Everything is Far from Here” by Cristina Henríquez; Sally Vahle reads “Cleaning Your Gun” by Laurie Lynn Drummond; Actor to be announced reads “Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses” by Bret Anthony Johnston, 7:30PM
Interabang Books, Analicia Sotelo reading from and signing VIRGIN: POEMS, 7PM
El Paso
El Paso Public Library - Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: "Ars Poetica—Poetry about Poetry and a Look at the Writing Life" with Annette Velasquez, 12:45PM
Fort Worth
BOLD Library, workshop: Bam! Pow! Zoom! Create Your Own Graphic Novel, 2PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Paul Petronella discussing and signing PAULIE’S, 7PMFort Worth
BOLD Library, workshop: Bam! Pow! Zoom! Create Your Own Graphic Novel, 2PM
Houston
Half Price Books - North Oaks, Local Author Saturday: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Hardy & Nance Studios, Illusions of Grandeur Presents "Life Is a Circus" with poet Chris Cantu, 6:30PM
Jungman Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Monica Teresa Ortiz, Rebecca Oxley, Nick Lantz, and Konnor Broussard, 2PM
Murder By the Book, Dean "Miranda" James will sign and discuss Claws for Concern, 4:30PM
Hardy & Nance Studios, Illusions of Grandeur Presents "Life Is a Circus" with poet Chris Cantu, 6:30PM
Jungman Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Monica Teresa Ortiz, Rebecca Oxley, Nick Lantz, and Konnor Broussard, 2PM
Murder By the Book, Dean "Miranda" James will sign and discuss Claws for Concern, 4:30PM
Writespace, Workshop: "How to Publish Your Work" with Joshua Foster, 9:30AM
Jasper
Jasper Public Library, Writers' League of Texas presents "Texas Writes" with feature presentations from authors Suzy Spencer and Reavis Z. Wortham, 10AM
Kerrville
Wolfmueller's Books, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 3PM
Lubbock
B&N, If You Were A Commandment book signing with S.R. Jackson, and Hen House Chronicles book signing with Sue Swinson, 1PM
Kerrville
Wolfmueller's Books, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 3PM
Lubbock
B&N, If You Were A Commandment book signing with S.R. Jackson, and Hen House Chronicles book signing with Sue Swinson, 1PM
Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, Meet & Greet with Beatrice Moore Luchin, author of The Shoe Fetish fiction book trilogy, 3PM
San Antonio
Sunday, March 4:
Abilene
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, the NCCIL welcomes Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Chair, 5:30PM [members only]
Austin
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, the NCCIL welcomes Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Chair, 5:30PM [members only]
Austin
BookPeople, STORY PIRATES presenting Stuck in the Stone Age, 2PM
BookWoman, The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900: A Book Talk with Elizabeth Clare, 4PM
BookWoman, The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900: A Book Talk with Elizabeth Clare, 4PM
Malvern Books, an afternoon with poets David Cavanagh, Sharon Webster, and Steven Ray Smith, 4PM
Dallas
Dallas
Half Price Books Mothership, local author Robert Lovelle Rooks will sell and sign his novel Filipina, and local author Francia Noble will sell and sign her book Doing Business God's Way: Devotions for the Entrepreneur, 1PM
El Paso
Blackbird Cantina, Xelena Gonzalez and Adriana M. Gomez perform their award-winning debut picture book, All Around Us, 5:30PM
Fort Worth
Central Library, workshop: Bam! Pow! Zoom! Create Your Own Graphic Novel, 3PM
Houston
Rudyard's Pub, Public Poetry presents "The Passion Series" featuring John Gorman and Kevin Prufer, 1PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
