Monday Roundup! June 30 - July 6

Bookish events in Texas for the week of June 30 - July 6, 2014:

Monday, June 30:
Austin
Ben Hur Shrine Temple, Nick Adams - The American Boomerang How the World's Greatest 'Turnaround' Nation Will Do It Again, 7PM

Bookpeople, Former Houston Mayor BILL WHITE speaking & signing America's Fiscal Constitution: It's Triumph & Collapse, 7PM

Monkeywrench Books, Austin Anarchist Study Group, 7PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, David Berg - RUN, BROTHER, RUN, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Chevy Stevens - That Night, 6:30 PM

Tuesday, July 1:

Austin
Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Every Tuesday night at Spiderhouse, poetry, score cards and cash prizes come together for an evening of competitive art.

UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN AND MUSEUM, release party of Dr. Katie Robinson Edwards' Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 6PM

Houston
Murder By the Book, Jacqueline Winspear will sign and discuss her new stand-alone The Care and Management of Lies, 6:30PM

San Antonio

B&N - San Pedro, Sun Poets' Society Open Mic Poetry, 7PM

The Woodlands
B&N - The Woodlands Mall, Taffi Dollar: Embracing the Love God Wants You to Have A Life of Peace, Joy, and Victory, 7PM

Thursday, July 3:

Austin
Bookwoman, The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making, 7PM

Humble
Half Price Books, First Thursday Poetry Night, 7PM

Friday, July 4:

Houston

B&N - Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold: Adventures of the Church-Lady Gang, 4PM

Saturday, July 5:

Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Sharon Bayliss - Destruction The December People, Book One, 2PM

Malvern Books, An Evening with Pam Jones & Kelly Luce, 7PM

Dallas

Crow Collection of Asian Art, The Writer's Garret, Adventure Asia Family Days: a family/community program which uses poetry and flash fiction to explore and interpret current exhibits, Join Writers in Neighborhoods & Schools (WINS), local writer Robin Turner, and writer/artist Barbara Lee in the Jade Room for a creative writing experience that is "Beyond Words"!, 12PM

Nasher Sculpture Center, The Writer's Garret - Come join Writers in Neighborhoods & Schools (WINS) for "Target First Saturdays," a family/community program (sponsored by Target) which uses poetry and flash fiction to explore and interpret current exhibits, with Lisa Huffaker, 12PM

Fort Worth

B&N - Hulen, Confederation of Monsters: The Ambassador's Apprentice by David Harrell, 1PM

San Antonio

B&N - La Cantera, John M. Manguso signs “San Antonio in the Great War,” a new book in the Images of America series, 7PM

Viva! Bookstore, Book Signing: I Choose Joy by Nancy S. Kellner, 1PM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, Literary Mercado, 1PM

Sunday, July 6:
Austin
Brave New Books, Misdemeanor Traffic Court Procedure w/ Eddie Craig From Rule of Law Radio, 2PM

Monkeywrench Books, Rise Up Texas General Assembly, 4PM