Monday Roundup: February 2 - 8

Bookish events in Texas for the week of February 2 - 8, 2015:

Special Events:
Dallas Comic Con Fan Days, Irving, February 7 - 8

Deep in the Heart Author Event, Austin, February 7

Monday, February 2:

Austin
Bookpeople, Bestselling Author GEORGE FRIEDMAN speaking & signing Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, 7PM

Dallas
Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live - Texas Bound II: Hellos and Goodbyes, 7:30PM

Frisco

B&N - Stonebriar Mall, Michael Northrop signs Tombquest Book 1 Book of the Dead, 5PM

Houston

Murder By the Book, Rebecca Scherm will sign and discuss her debut novel, Unbecoming, and Paula Hawkins will sign and discuss The Girl on the Train, 6:30PM

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building, Hermes Mallea discusses his new book Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour with book signing to follow, 6:30PM

Tuesday, February 3:

Austin
Brave New Books, Christopher Bollyn: Solving 9/11, 7PM

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

Whip In, Owen Egerton's One Page Salon w/Sean Petrie, Jay Rosenkrantz, Kaci and Roy Danger, & Ross Smith, 7PM

Wednesday, February 4:

Austin
Bookpeople, Austin Authors & BookPeople Booksellers JULIE WERNERSBACH & CAROLYN TRACY speaking & signing Vegan Survival Guide to Austin, 7PM

Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Wayne Thorburn presents Red State, 12PM

Ransom Center, Poetry on the Plaza: Readers include James Loehlin, Carrie Fountain and Stephen Enniss, 12PM

Dallas

The Wild Detectives, Oral Fixation cast meet & greet, 7PM

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Michael Northrop will discuss and sign TOMBQUEST: BOOK OF THE DEAD, the first book in his new series for middle graders, 5PM

University of St. Thomas - Cullen Hall, Bryan Giemza presents a lecture derived from his book, Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South, 7PM

San Antonio 

Olmos Bharmacy, San Antonio Sun Poets Society, 6PM

Thursday, February 5:

Austin
Bookpeople, Former Governor of Arkansas MIKE HUCKABEE signing his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, 11AM

Mr. Catfish & More, Neo Soul (Open Mic and Slam), 8:30PM

Spider House Ballroom, book release for Lakeem Wilson's Natural Born Star, 9PM

Dallas
McCord Auditorium - SMU, Rachel St. John (Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border) will present her research on William Gwin, 6PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, David Heymann - MY BEAUTIFUL CITY AUSTIN, 7PM

Murder by the Book, Michael H. Rubin will sign and discuss The Cottoncrest Curse, 6:30PM

Rice University Chapel, Fondren Library Cherry Reading Series: a reading by Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning, 5:30PM

Humble
Half Price Books, Open mic poetry, 7PM

San Antonio
Trinity U - Holt Center, Moral Ground: An Evening with Kathleen Dean Moore, 7PM

San Marcos

Wake the Dead Coffee House, Poetry Open Mic Round Robin!, 7:30PM

Tyler

UT Tyler, Nicholas Sparks talk & book signing, 7:30PM

Friday, February 6:

Austin
Bookpeople, Pretty Little Liars Star KEEGAN ALLEN signing his new book, life.love.beauty, 7PM

Dallas

Half Price Books Mother Ship, Dallas Poets Community Open Mic featuring Gayle Reaves-King, 7PM

South Dallas Cultural Center, Wordspace presents Michael S. Jackson reading The Residue Years, 7:30PM

Georgetown

Cianfrani Coffee Co, Georgetown Fiction Friday (Writers, Poets, Musicians, and Readers of fiction), 6:30PM

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Reading Between the Wines, 6:30PM

Inprint Houst, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Christopher Carmona, 8:30PM

Midland

B&N, Mike Huckabee: God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, 11AM

Saturday, February 7:

Amarillo
B&N - Westgate Mall, Linda Broday Signing Texas Mail Order Bride, 2PM

Austin
Austin Baha'i Center, Expression Poetry features & open mic, 7PM

Alpha House, They Speak Youth Slam (Youth Writing Workshop and Youth Poetry Slam), 12PM

B&N - Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Jay Brandon:Shadow Knight's Mate, 2PM

Half Price Books - South Park Meadows, Peter J. Story signs his new psychological satire Things Grak Hates, 1PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Ray Villareal Signs His YA Novel On the Other Side of the Bridge, 2PM

SMU, John M. Adams discusses his recent book, The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings, 7PM

El Paso

B&N - Fountains at Farrah, Beverley Blount Signing The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English and Treasure of the Haunted Hacienda, 2PM

Frisco

B&N - Stonebriar Mall, Mike Rodriguez signs 8 Keys to Exceptional Selling, 2PM

Houston

B&N - Town & Country, Bill King signs Unapologetically Moderate, 2PM

The Big Blue Whale, Silly Shoes with Lawson Gow, 11AM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Dianne Jones will meet and greet customers as she signs her book STOP BREATHE BELIEVE, 2PM

Brazos Bookstore, Scott McCloud - THE SCULPTOR, 7PM

Houston Country Club, 2015 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball Featuring Salman Rushdie [sold out], 6:30PM

Houston Public Library - Shepard-Acres Home Branch, Public Poetry presents poets Jesse Bertron, Kenan Ince, Celeste Guzmán Mendoza, Henk Rossouw, and Abe Louise Young, 2PM

Rice University - Duncan Hall /McMurtry Auditorium, Yannis Ritsos: A Poet’s Journey, 6PM

Marfa
Marfa Book Company, Jane Mead poetry reading, 6PM

Midland
Tea2go, Permian Basin Poetry Society Open Mic Night, 7PM

Plano
B&N - Creekwalk Village, Meet Three Harlequin Romance Authors, 2PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Delicious Mischief signing with John DeMers, 10AM

The Twig Book Shop, Beth Ann Stifflemire read and signs Waiting Hearts, 11AM

Viva! Bookstore, Kyndall Rae Rothaus read and signs Preacher Breathe, 1PM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, Carl S. Chilton, Jr. reads and signs Brownsville - The First 100 Years 1848-1948, 1PM

Southlake
B&N, Author Signing, Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen Rodgers, 2PM

The Woodlands
B&N - Woodlands Mall, V.L. Ball presents Ministries Administrative Assurance Plan, 2PM

Sunday, February 8:

Austin

Austin Books & Comics, Scott McCloud: Meet the creator of The Sculptor & Understanding Comics, 2PM

Bookpeople, Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest Winners Party!, 7PM

Kick Butt Coffee, Spoken and Heard, 7PM

Resistencia Bookstore, Panza Monologues: A Reading and Book Signing with Virginia Grise, 5PM

Stompin’ Grounds Lounge, Austin Writers’ Roulette (Juried Prose and Poetry), 4PM

Bryan
Revolution Cafe and Bar, Open mic poetry, 8:30PM

Houston

Bambou, Poetry Lounge hosted by Se7en, 6PM