Monday Roundup: July 20 - 26

Bookish events in Texas for the week of July 20 - 26, 2015: 

Special Events:
Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15 - July 25

Writers' League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat, Alpine, July 19 - 23

Macondo Writers’ Workshop, San Antonio, July 22 - 26

DFW Writers Conference, Dallas, July 24 - 25

Monday, July 20:
Dallas
Magnolia Lounge - Fair Park, Pandora's Box Presents: Amos Hunt, Tamitha Curiel, and The Et Al. Players Performing "BreadCrumbs!", 8PM

The Wild Detectives, HARRISON SCOTT KEY reads and signs THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAN, 7:30PM

Greenville
W. Walworth Harrison Public Library, Author and Texas State Historian Bill O’Neal will speak and sign Texas Gunslingers, 6PM

Plano
Whole Foods, Shauna Martin will discuss Daily Greens: 4-Day Cleanse, 11AM

Tuesday, July 21:

Austin
BookPeople, Austin Author CAROL FLAKE CHAPMANspeaking & signing Written In Water: A Memoir of Love, Death and Mystery, 7PM

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

Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, Ambassador Robert Jordan to Discuss and Sign Desert Diplomat, 7PM

Whole Foods, Shauna Martin will discuss Daily Greens: 4-Day Cleanse, 11AM

Fort Worth

The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam, 8PM

Houston
B&N - Westheimer, Book signings with Victoria Christopher Murray and Reshonda Tate Billingsley, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Hemingday! Celebrate the 116th birthday of Ernest Hemingway with games and readings by Nick Esquer, Joe Holley, Elizabeth A. M. Keel, Brooke Lightfoot, Veronica Anne Salinas and Elizabeth Lyons, 6PM

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Kathy Reichs discusses and signs Speaking in Bones, 6:30PM

San Antonio

Witte Museum, Join H-E-Buddy and San Antonio Youth Literacy for a Read 3 Read Aloud and receive a free children's book, 3PM

Terrell
Book and Crannies, Brad Parks will discuss and sign The Fraud, 6PM

Wednesday, July 22:

Austin
BookPeople, Travel Writer HARRISON SCOTT KEY speaking & signing The World's Largest Man: A Memoir, 7PM

Opal Divine's, MysteryPeople Presents NOIR AT THE BAR featuring authors BRAD PARKS & ANDREW HILBERT, 7PM

Dallas
Half Price Books - Mother Ship, local author Desiree Morrow, a.k.a. Desy Smith, will sell and sign her YA novel, The Talented, 5PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Sneak Peek at THE WHALE; OR, MOBY DICK, presented by Horse Head Theater Co., 6PM

Murder By the Book, Spencer Quinn will sign and discuss Scents and Sensibility and David Rosenfelt will sign and discuss his two new releases, Who Let the Dog Out? and Lessons from Tara, 6:30PM

North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Public Library, Behind the Book: Dr. Kathy Reichs discusses and signs Speaking in Bones, 7PM

Thursday, July 23:

Allen
Allen Public Library, Dr. Paul Tobolowsky discusses and signs Stardust Dancing (A Seeker’s Guide to the Miraculous), 7:30PM

Austin

BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents Bestselling Author ACE ATKINS Speaking & Signing The Redeemers, 7PM

Dallas
B&N - Preston/Royal, Douglas Box Signs Cutter Frisco: Growing Up on the Original Southfork Ranch: A Memoir, 6:30PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Dave Parsons reading and signing REACHING FOR LONGER WATER & Cliff Hudder reading and signing PRETTY ENOUGH FOR YOU, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Brad Parks will sign and discuss The Fraud, 6:30PM

Irving
Irving Public Library - Valley Ranch, Authors Visit and Launch Party: Rachel Caine presents Ink and Bone, Shanna Swendson presents Rebel Mechanics and P.N. Elrod presents The Hanged Man, 7PM

Friday, July 24:

Arlington
Arlington Public Library - Southeast Branch, Symphony Arlington Kids Notes Program, 2PM

Austin

BookPeople, Bestselling Author WESLEY CHU speaking & signing Time Salvager, 7PM

Brave New Books, author Jim Marrs event, ?

King Bee, Conflict of Interest presents: Drinks with (your) Conflict(s) of Interest, 8PM

Malvern Books, I SCREAM SOCIAL poetry reading series with A.R. Rogers, Aza Pace, and Natalie Ruiz, 7PM

Resistencia Bookstore, Cafe Libro featuring Chucky Black, 7PM

Bandera
The Frontier Times Museum, J. Griffis Smith will sign On the Road with Texas Highways, 3PM

Houston

B&N - Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice: Beyond Alchemy, 4PM

Brazos Bookstore, Summer of Shakespeare: The Soliloquies with the Houston Shakespeare Festival, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Ace Atkins will sign and discuss The Redeemers, 6:30PM

San Antonio

Gemini Ink, Mini-conference reading by Jennifer Bartlett and Dan Vera, 7PM

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, celebrate 20 years of Macondo Writers’ Workshop with readings by students and poet Richard Blanco, 7PM

Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Jenny Martin Book Signing-Tracked, 6PM

Saturday, July 25:

Alpine
Galleria Sibley, meet and greet author Joe Patoski as part of Viva Big Bend, 1PM

Austin
BookPeople, Debut Author ALEXANDRA BURT speaking & signing Remember Mia, 4PM

Brave New Books, author Jim Marrs event, ?

Bullock Museum, Texas Readers Theater Series: Camp Logan, 2PM

Half Price Books - Parmer Crossing, 43rd birthday party for Half Price Books, 12PM

Half Price Books - Parmer Crossing, Victoria McGuire will sell and sign her memoir It Should Not Hurt to be a Wife, 1PM

Half Price Books - Southpark Meadows, 43rd birthday party for Half Price Books, 1PM

Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged mic-less open mic, 7PM

Bowie
Bowie Public Library, Texas Writes by the Writers' League of Texas: presentations by authors Polly Holyoke and Ann Fields, 10AM

Cedar Hill
B&N - Hillside Village, R. Jay Berry signs Sunday's Eternal Rose, 1PM

Dallas
The Wild Detectives, Christmas in July readings! (yep, solidarity with the southern hemisphere, apparently), 7PM

Houston
B&N - Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice: Beyond Alchemy, 10AM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Hank Moore will discuss and sign his new book, HOUSTON LEGENDS, 2PM

Brazos Bookstore, Weasel Patterson reading and signing THE HELL INSIDE US and David E. Cowen reading and signing THE MADNESS OF EMPTY SPACES, 7PM

Katy Budget Books, Local author D. Scozzari signs the second book in her Ninth Region series for early readers, The Knighting Nettle, 1PM

Murder By the Book, Rachel Caine will sign and discuss Ink and Bone and Jennifer Lynn Barnes will sign The Fixer, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Victor Alvarez reads and signs The Huntsman, 4PM

Sig's Lagoon, Grady Gaines and Rod Evans sign I've Been Out There, 7PM

Hurst
B&N - NE Mall, Book Signing With Author Rebecca May: A Finely Crafted Novel, 11AM

Lewisville
B&N - Vista Ridge, Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra Kids Notes Program, 11AM

McAllen
B&N - Palms Crossing, Meet the Author: Xavier Garza discusses and signs The Great and Mighty Nikko, 1PM

San Antonio
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, an evening with poet Richard Blanco, 7PM

The Twig Book Shop, Mary Locke Crofts discusses and signs Pathways to Ancient Shelter: A Sojourn in Langtry, TX, 11AM

Southlake

B&N - Town Square, Rebecca May signing A Finely Crafted Novel, 3PM

Sugar Land
Half Price Books, local author Andrea Morris will sell and sign her children’s book, Caterpillar, 1PM

The Woodlands

B&N - Woodlands Mall, Janet Shawgo signs Look for Me, 2PM

Sunday, July 26:
Dallas
Dallas Public Library - Oak Lawn, Marion Moore Hill will discuss and sign her Scrappy Librarian and Deadly Past mysteries, 1:30PM

Houston
B&N - Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice: Beyond Alchemy, 10AM