Monday Roundup: March 16 - 22

Bookish events in Texas for the week of March 16 - 22, 2015:

Special Events:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10 - July 6

SMU Lit Fest, Dallas, March 19 - 21

Monday, March 16:

Colorado City
Mitchell County Library, Travis W. Inman signs When Love Called, 4PM

Dallas
Magnolia Lounge - Fair Park, Pandora's Box presents : Samira Noorali, MH Clay, Gene Barry and Singer Lily Taylor, 7PM

Wyly Theater, Oral Fixation show “Writing On The Wall,” 8PM

Houston
Murder by the Book, Olen Steinhauer will sign and discuss his new stand-alone novel, All The Old Knives, 6:30PM

Tuesday, March 17:

Austin
Malvern Books, SOFT BEASTS: A Reading with Layne Ransom, Gail Aronson, and JD Scott, 7PM

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

Dallas
Horchow Auditorium, Rabih Alameddine with Colm Tóibín: Words and Pictures, 7:30PM

Rosewood Crescent, George Friedman will discuss Flash Points: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, 7PM

Fort Worth

TCU, Peter Stark (Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire, A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival) will be the featured guest speaker at the TCU Library Annual Dinner, 6:30PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Jill Alexander Essbaum reads and signs HAUSFRAU, 7PM

Murder by the Book, C.J. Box will sign and discuss the newest book in his Joe Pickett series, Endangered, 6:30PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Jo Whittemore presents Colonial Madness, 4PM

Waco
Baylor - Armstrong-Browning Library, join the editors of Her Texas and Texas Poet Laureate ROSEMARY CATACALOS, songwriter TISH HINOJOSA, and poet and writer NAOMI SHIHAB NYE for poetry and music, 6PM

Wednesday, March 18:

Austin
Austin Books & Comics, John Mueller signing Oink: Heaven's Butcher, 5PM

Dallas
Dallas City Performance Hall, Leon Panetta presents Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace, 7:30PM

Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Jeff Chang will discuss Who We Be: The Colorization of America, 7:30PM

The Wild Detectives, Sergio Pitol birthday celebration and book release party: Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans and translator George Henson will discuss The Art of Flight, 7PM

Houston

Murder by the Book, Jacqueline Winspear will sign and discuss her new Maisie Dobbs novel, A Dangerous Place, 6:30PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Chris Cander reads and signs Whisper Hollow, 7PM

Thursday, March 19:

Allen
Allen Public Library, Wilson W. "Dub" Crook will discuss Peopling of the Americas: Is Clovis First Finally Dead?, 7:30PM

Austin
South Congress Books, Jesse Sublett book signing and performance, 2PM

Conroe
Lone Star College-Montgomery, Sarah Bird reads and discusses excerpts from her works, 7PM

Dallas
Highland Park United Methodist Church, James McPherson will discuss The War That Forged a Nation, 7PM

Horchow Auditorium, Jo Baker: Jane Austen Remixed, 7:30PM

Nasher Sculpture Center GalleryLab: “The Mother Tongue” Talk on Translation & Art with Will Evans (Deep Vellum Publishing) & Dr. Sean Cotter (translator & professor at UT-Dallas), 6PM

SMU, Peter Balakian will discuss his noted book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, 6:30PM

Wordspace Member Salon, featuring John Slate, 7PM

Houston
The Heritage House, Jerry and Marvy Finger Lecture Series: How to Spend your Way Out of a Debt Crises - Lessons from the Republic of Texas presented by author James P. Bevill, 12PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Poetry Double-header with Barbara Ras and Noel Crook, 5:30PM

Friday, March 20:

Austin
Austin Books & Comics, Val Mayerik signs new issue of Howard the Duck, 12PM

Malvern Books, A Literary Situation at Malvern Books with poet and video artist Steve Roggenbuck, et al, 7PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Gail Carriger: Prudence, 7PM

Heroes, Dallas Poetry Slam with Danielle Inez, 8PM

Park Cities Club, International Perspectives Series presents The Next 40 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy with author Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, 12PM

SMU, Gary Swaim will read from A Perhaps Line: Poetry of the Material and Immaterial Worlds,  6:30PM

Union Coffee House, Nailed It! Open Mic, 8PM

Garland
B&N - Firewheel Mall, George Arnold Signs Kremlin Kerfuffle: Koshki of the CIA, 4PM

Houston

MECA, Space City Slam: Mars Preliminary, 6PM

Murder by the Book, David Joy will sign and discuss Where All The Light Tends to Go, Bryon Quertermous will sign and discuss Murder Boy and Duane Swierczynski will sign and discuss Canary, 6:30PM

Silver Street Studios, Writespace Open House, Reception and Faculty Reading Series, 5:30PM

Unity of Houston (Unity Church of Christianity), Gregg Braden Lecture: The Turning Point: Thriving on the Edge of the Perfect Storm followed by a book signing, 7:30PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Gemini Ink Spring Fling Faculty Reading, 6:30PM

Saturday, March 21:

Allen
Allen Public Library, Troy will discuss The Money Island, 3PM

Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Brannon Perkison: The Do-Nothing, 2PM

B&N - Arboretum, Ellie O'Neill: Reluctantly Charmed A Novel, 7PM

Bullock Museum, BOOK IT, TEXAS!: HOLY GHOST GIRL, 10:30AM

Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged, 2PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Susie Jennings: 31 Days of Mountaintop Miracles One Woman's Legacy of Unconditional Obedience, 3PM

Lucky Dog Books - Oak Cliff, WordSpace presents GENE BLAIR, traveling poet and publisher from Ireland, 8PM

Garland

B&N - Firewheel Mall, George Arnold Signs His Newest Book Kremlin Kerfuffle: Koshki of the CIA, 10AM

Houston

B&N - Vanderbilt Square, Howard T. Joe: Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol, 2PM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Lindsey Lane chats with Jennifer Mathieu and Varsha Bajaj about EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN, Lindsey’s novel for young adults, 1PM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Sarah Cortez will be joined by several other poets as they read from GOODBYE MEXICO: POEMS OF REMEMBRANCE, 4PM

Half Price Books - Westheimer/Montrose, indie author Ed Williamson will sign his Biblical Study book, The Love Book: Behold, What Manner of Love, 1PM

Meta-Four Houston, Space City Slam: Atlantis Preliminary, 6PM

Murder by the Book, Lynne Truss will sign and discuss Cat Out Of Hell, 1PM

Murder by the Book, Gail Carriger will sign and discuss Prudence, 4:30PM

Silver Street Studios, Writespace Open House Faculty Reading Series, 7:30PM

Spaghetti Warehouse, Celebrity Tour: Discover Houston in 1837 with author Mike Vance, 11AM

Hurst

B&N - NE Mall, Book Signing With Author Kelly K. Lavender:Beautiful Evil Winter, 11AM

Irving

Irving Public Library - South Branch, grand opening with Young Adults author Elizabeth Eulberg, 9:30AM

Luling

Central Texas Oil Museum, book signing: J. Griffis Smith, author of On the Road with Texas Highways, 11AM

San Antonio

Half Price Books - Broadway, local author Christopher St. John Sampayo will sign his books Haunting of Rosehaven, Ghosts of Glass, and Fields of Frozen Stars, 2PM

Half Price Books - Huebner, Jesse Brown Jr. will sign his dark fantasy novel The Legend of the Werewolf, 2PM

Half Price Books - Stone Ridge, local author Gene Scoggin will sign his inspirational book, A God Thing, 1PM

Waco
B&N - Circuit City Plaza, David Mosley: Heartbreak Times, 5:30PM

Sunday, March 22:

Austin
Half Price Books - North Lamar, Christina M. Berry will sign her novel Alicia, 2PM

Garland
B&N - Firewheel, George Arnold Signs Kremlin Kerfuffle: Koshki of the CIA, 10AM