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Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2019

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Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 30-October 6, 2019 compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life by Texas Book Lover. 

SPECIAL EVENTS:
38th Annual American Journalism Historians Association National Convention, Dallas, October 3-5

SCBWI - North Texas Fall Retreat, Waxahachie, October 4-6

Waco WORDFEST, October 4-6

West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, October 4-6

Boerne Book & Arts Festival, October 5

Houston Loves Books: An Indie Romance Book Binge, October 5

Red River County Public Library’s Author Showcase, Clarksville, October 5

San Anto Zine Fest 2019, San Antonio, October 5

Houston Indiepalooza, October 5-6

EXHIBITS:

Humanities Texas exhibit: Shakespeare, Austin, September 1-October 1

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30:
Austin
BookPeople, Raymond Caballero discussing and signing McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks (in conversation with Mayor Steve Adler), 7PM

Cleburne
Cleburne Public Library, Julie Kibler reading and signing Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, 6:30PM

Dallas
First United Methodist Church, Arts & Letters Live presents Kristin Hanna, author of The Great Alone (in conversation with author Kathleen Kent), 7:30PM [ticketed event]

Houston
Meadow Wood Elementary School, Blue Willow Bookshop presents Max Brallier reading and signing The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade, 5PM [kids event]

Irving
South Library, Dear Sweet Pea launch party with Julie Murphy, 7PM

San Antonio
Southwest School of Art, San Antonio Poet Laureate Octavio Quintanilla discusses his exhibit, "FRONTEXTOS," 6PM

University of the Incarnate Word, "Borders and Identity": a discussion with Norma Elia Cantú, author of Cabañuelas, 5:30PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1:
Austin
Half Price Books - Southpark Meadows, YA author Cy Young signing Death Load Onions, 1PM

Lazarus Brewing Co., LOGOS no. 15 featuring poets Victoria Prescott and Chucky BLK, 7:15PM
Native Hostel, Austin Poetry Slam, 7:15PM

The North Door, 6th anniversary of Owen Egerton's One Page Salon, 7:30PM
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Casey Gerald presents There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, 7:30PM [ticketed event]

Half Price Books, Syfy science columnist and sci-fi author Wil McCarthy discussing and signing Antediluvian, 7PM

Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council of DFW presents Josh Campbell discussing and signing Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The FBI Today, 6:30PM

UT Dallas, EODIAH Fellow Talks with Kent Boyer (Ekphrastic Poetry and Abstract Expressionism: “Why I Am Not A Painter” by Frank O’Hara 1956) and Eman Al-Habashneh (A Relentless Quest for Identity), 4PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Poetry Open Mic, 8PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Fierce Reads Fall 2019 Tour: Sara Faring (The Tenth Girl), - L.L. McKinney [A Dream So Dark (The Nightmare Verse Book 2)]Margaret Owen (The Merciful Crow), and Katie Rose Pool (There Will Come a Darkness), 7PM

The Menil Collection, Book Launch and Discussion: Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970, 6PM

San Antonio
Central Library, Meet the Poet: Chibbi Orduña, member of PuroSlam and founder of Laredo Border Slam, 6PM

The Mix, PuroSlam featuring DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM

The Twig Book Shop, Raymond Caballero discussing and signing McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks (in conversation with San Antonio Express-News columnist Elaine Ayala), 5PM

The Witte Museum, the DoSeum presents the 10th Annual Outside the Lunchbox Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World, 11:30AM [ticketed event]

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2:
Austin
BookPeople, Josh Campbell discussing and signing Crossfire Hurricane, 7PM

Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Mary S. Black discussing Secrets in the Dirt: Uncovering the Ancient People of Gault, 12PM

Malvern Books, an evening with Austin-based poet Usha Akella (in conversation with Chaitali Sen), 7PM

Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, New York Times bestselling author Max Brallier reading and signing The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade, 6PM [sold out]

SMU, a lecture by Arthur C. Brooks, author of Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt, 6PM

SMU, Sammons Lecture in Media Ethics With Gretchen Carlson, author of Be Fierce and Getting Real, 8PM

Denton
University of North Texas, UNT Visiting Writers Series presents Laird Hunt, 8PM

Houston
Amegy Bank Tower, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston presents Fatima Bhutto discussing and signing New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop, 6:30PM
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam featuring April Neal, 7:30PM

Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Brazos Bookstore presents Kristin Hannah discussing The Great Alone (in conversation with Katherine Center), 7:30PM [ticketed event]

Murder By the Book, David Rosenfelt reading and signing the newest Andy Carpenter novel, Dachshund Through the Snow, 6:30PM

San Antonio
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, Chicanas Read the Poetry of Healing, 7PM

Igo Library, Igo Mystery Club Author Event with Susana K. Marsch, 6:30PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3:
Austin
BookPeople, Naomi Klein discussing and signing On Fire (in conversation with Andrea Valdez of the Texas Observer), 7PM [ticketed event]

Canyon
WTAMU, Poetry Reading: “Language, Literature and Loss” with Jenn Givhan and Vanessa Angélica Villareal, 6PM

Dallas
Anjelika Dallas Theater 7, Dallas Videofest's Docufest presents a screening of the new Flannery O'Connor documentary, Flannery, 7PM

The Wild Detectives, poet Joe Milazzo presents From Being Things, To Equalities In All, 7:30PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Leslie Jamison discussing and signing Make It Scream, Make It Burn, 6:30PM

Murder By the Book, Heather Harper Ellett reading and signing Ain't Nobody Nobody, 6:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Brendan and Timothy McNulty signing The Meanest Man in Congress, 5PM

Lubbock
Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet francine j. harris, 7:30PM

Victoria
University of Houston, American Book Review Reading Series presents Christine Hume, 11AM
Waco
Fabled Bookshop & Cafe, a Q&A with Jeremy Everett, author of I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis, 7PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4:
Alpine
Front Street Books, Jerry Lackey presents the Pioneers of Texas’ Frontier series, 6PM

Austin
BookPeople, Augusten Burroughs discussing and signing Toil & Trouble, 7PM [ticketed event]

BookWoman, Loving, Grieving & Surviving: Poetry of Community & Mental Health with Jen Yanez-Alaniz, Carmen Tafolla, Jen Mendoza, ire'ne lara silva and Ilza Garcia, 7PM

Boerne
Tusculum Brewing Company, cocktail reception with Stephen Harrigan, author of Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, 6PM [ticketed event]

Dallas
Interabang Books, John Eisenberg discussing and signing The League, 6PM

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a conversation with Anne Farris Rosen, co-author of Deep South Dispatch, 1:30PM

El Paso
B&N - Fountains at Farah, Lani Sarem signing Handbook for Mortals, 5PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Mark Haber reading and signing Reinhardt's Garden, 6PM
Discovery Green, WITS Youth Performance Poetry Session, 6:30PM [kids event]

Murder By the Book, Raymond Khoury reading and signing Empire of Lies, 6:30PM
The House of Rebirth, Velvet: The Rebirth - An Intimate Performance Series & Benefit, 8PM

Interabang Books, Muslim women author panel featuring Sara Bawany [(W)holehearted], Afshan Malik (Pieces), and Tayyaba Syed (The Blessed Bananas), 1PM

Denton
The Bearded Monk, American Literary ReviewLightning Round Reading, 4PM

El Paso
Armijo Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Writing Flash Fiction and Non-Fiction to Build Longer Narrative Books" with Lex Williford, 1PM

Galveston
Galveston Bookshop, Chris O’Shea Roper and Tom Linton signing Legacy of the Early Gulf Coast Cowboys, 2PM

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Ava Morgyn launches her new YA novel, Resurrection Girls, 11AM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Eddie Jackson discussing and signing his new cookbook, Game-Day Eats, 3PM

The Book Scene, Freddy Cruz signing When America Fell Silent, 1PM

Discovery Green, WITS Young Writers Workshop, 10:30AM [kids event]

Freed Montrose Library, Public Poetry Library Reading Series featuring Daniel Carrington, Dede Fox, Gabrielle Langley, and Jasminne Mendez, 2PM

Kaboom Books, Escritores Cronopios Houston presents "Letras de otoño," 6PM

Moody Center, Inprint's Poetry Buskers at Moonlight at the Moody, 7PM
Writespace, Workshop: "What We Talk About When We Talk about Cliches" with Matthew Hefti, 9:30AM

Writespace, Workshop: "Micro Essay" with Justin Jannise, 1PM

Midland
Centennial Library, a performance and book signing with John Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog series, 10:30AM

Haley Memorial Library, Annual Fall Storytelling Gathering, all day

San Antonio
Dead Tree Books, Reynaldo Garay signing When Eagles Fly, 2PM

The Twig Book Shop, Ed Crowell signing Barton Creek, 11AM

Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Jeff Morris signing Legion Rising, 1PM

Sugar Land
B&N, Sharon Hanzik signing Raccoons Don't Use Spoons, 2PM [kids event]

Waco
Fabled Bookshop & Cafe, Celebrate the grand opening of Fabled Bookshop & Cafe with books, treats, and special activities, all day

Webster
B&N, 2019 Poetry Out of Bounds: a kick-off event for the Houston Poetry Fest featuring Melissa Studdard, many of the festival’s juried poets, and poets from across Texas, 1PM

The Woodlands
B&N, Lost Restaurants of Houston book signing with Paul Galvani, 1PM

Yoakum
Carl and Mary Welhausen Library, Writer's League of Texas workshop: "Texas Writes" with Stacey Swann and Jessica Wilbanks, 10AM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6:

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