Monday Roundup: TEXAS LITERARY CALENDAR 2/13-19

Bookish events in Texas for the week of February 13-19, 2017: 

Special Events:
Teen Bookfest By the Bay, Corpus Christi, February 18

Inprint Poets & Writers Ball, Houston, February 18

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Children's Book Fair, Austin, February 18-19

Ongoing Exhibits:

Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6-July 16

The Human Experience: From Texas to the World literacy initiative, Houston, January 18-May 18

The Lost Generation: World War I Poetry, Denton, January 17-May 11

Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, Fort Worth, January 21-May 7

Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art (an exhibition from the book of the same title), San Angelo, February 16-April 9

Monday, February 13:

Dallas
King of Glory Lutheran Church, a talk with Janice Holden, author of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation, 12PM

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Sarah Jio will discuss and sign ALWAYS, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Chase Untermeyer will discuss and sign ZENITH, 7PM

Irving
Irving Public Library: Valley Ranch, a theatrical evening with romance author Eloisa James, 6:30PM

San Antonio

Jandro's Garden Patio, Wat Dat Mouf Do Erotic Poetry Slam, 8:30PM

Tuesday, February 14:

Austin

Austin Public Library - Windsor Park, Stephen Harrigan will discuss A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, 7PM

BookPeople, KATIE KITAMURA speaking & signing A Separation (In Conversation With Antonio Ruiz-Camacho), 7PM

Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Kevin W. Burke, 8PM

Cedar Hill
Zula Bryant Wylie Library, "Romance 101: Adding Romance to Your Story": Dallas Area Writers Group meeting with Amanda Arista, 7PM

Dallas
AT&T Performing Arts Center, #HearHere lecture series presents Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour, ?

Hyatt Regency Dallas, "Learning to Lead in the New Washington" with former Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates, author of A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, 12PM

The Wild Detectives, Spiderweb Salon Love You: POETRY! MUSIC! ART! ZINES! BOOKS! COFFEE! BEER! LOVE!, 7PM

Fort Worth

The Dock Bookshop, Power of Love: An Evening of Poetry, Spoken Word and Music, 8PM

Houston
Murder By the Book, Mark Greaney will sign and discuss Gunmetal Gray, 6:30PM

Irving
La Madeleine, Fresh Fiction presents breakfast with romance author Eloisa James, 9AM

San Angelo
First Place, San Angelo Writers Club meeting featuring Mike Thompson, author of Wolf Point, 6:30PM

San Antonio

The Korova, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: local author Susan LeMiles presents "Shenanigans on the Rio Grande," 1PM

Wednesday, February 15:

Austin
Austin Public Library - Manchaca Road, Workshop: The Power of Memoir: Bringing your life stories to the world with author Sharon Lippincott, 1PM

BookPeople, K.J. HOWE speaking & signing The Freedom Broker (In Conversation With JEFF ABBOTT), 7PM

Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Bruce Willard & Joe Brundidge, 7PM

Dallas

Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Chris Bohjalian discussing and signing The Sleepwalker, and Katie Kitamura reading and signing A Separation, 7:30PM

Fort Worth
TCU - Moudy North, Live Oak Reading Series featuring Johnny Simons, 6:30PM

Houston

Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM

Cullen Theater, a rare and historic evening with Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank and author of After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank, 7PM

Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series with Melvin Konner, author of Women After All (followed by book signing), 6:30PM

Lone Star College - North Harris, Book Discussion with author and professor Mignette Dorsey - Speak Truth to Power: The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer, 11:30AM

Murder By the Book, Ian Rankin will sign and discuss Rather Be The Devil, 6:30PM

Killeen
TYKU, Marlon Powe launches his new book Writing With a Broken Pen, 8PM

San Antonio
Rebar, Kinyo Poetry Live: "My SAless," 8:30PM

San Antonio Public Library - Encino, Jan Jarboe Russell will discuss The Train to Crystal City, 6:30PM

Trinity University, Douglas Brinkley will discuss and sign Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, 7PM

Thursday, February 16:

Arlington
UTA College Park Center, Maverick Speakers series presents Kevin O'Leary, author of Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life. 7:30PM

Austin
BookPeople, IAN RANKIN speaking & signing Rather Be The Devil, 7PM

BookPeople, Writers' League of Texas Third Thursday: How to Unite, Ignite, and Get It Right: Writing about Social Justice with Nan Cuba, Vive Griffith, Alejandro Puyana, and Daniel Oppenheimer, 7PM

Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Recycled Reads, Workshop: The Power of Memoir: Bringing your life stories to the world with author Sharon Lippincott, 6PM

UT - Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center presents an evening with visiting writer-in-residence Margot Livesey, 7:30PM

Conroe
Lone Star College, Writers In Performance Series presents Kip Stratton, 7PM

Dallas
Hotel Crescent Court, Richard N. Haass will discuss and sign A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, 12PM

The Wild Detectives, Dave Romanelli discusses and signs Happy Is the New Healthy, 7:30PM

El Paso
501 Bar & Bistro, Frontera Poetry Slam featuring Soularae, 7:30PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Harriet Lerner will discuss and sign WHY WON’T YOU APOLOGIZE?, 7PM

The Heritage Society, Jerry & Marvy Finger Lecture Series with Raul A. Ramos, author of Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas, 12PM

Holocaust Museum Houston, Dr. Lori Flores will discuss and sign Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the California Farmworker Movement, 6:30PM

Murder By the Book, Charles Todd will sign and discuss Racing the Devil, 6:30PM

RockStar Art Gallery, Open house, reception, art, music, and poetry with Vena Ashley, 6:30PM, 

Lindale

Lillie Russell Memorial Library, Writers' League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Jeramey Kraatz and Liz Garton Scanlon, 10AM

San Antonio
San Antonio Public Library - Central, Jan Jarboe Russell will discuss The Train to Crystal City, 6:30PM

Tomball

Lone Star College, 2016 Texas State Poet Laureate, Laurie Ann Guerrero, will be reading her works, answer questions, and signing books, 12:30PM

Victoria

University of Houston, American Book Review reading series presents Vivian Gornick, 12PM

Friday, February 17:

Arlington
UTA Central Library, ANDRÉS RESÉNDEZ will discuss and sign The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, 7:30PM

Austin
BookPeople, JOEL BERG speaking & signing America, We Need to Talk, 7PM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Pandora's Box Poetry Group featuring Opalina Salas, Joaquín Zihuatanejo, and Gabe Mamola, 7PM

Heroes Lounge, WordSpaceDallas and Dallas Poetry Slam present Featured Reader Readers with Melania-luisa, 8PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, David Romanelli will discuss and sign HAPPY IS THE NEW HEALTHY, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Alexandra Burt will sign and discuss The Good Daughter, and Hester Young will sign and discuss her debut novel, The Shimmering Road, 6:30PM

Rudyard's Pub, Gulf Coast Journal reading series featuring Tim Z. Hernandez, Charlotte Wyatt, Rhianna Brandt, and Matthew Salesses, 7PM

University of Houston - Central Campus, UH Ethics in Science Lecture Series with Theodore M. Porter, author of The Unknown History of Human Heredity, 11AM

Midland
B&N, David Bryant Perkins discusses and signs Hitler's Astrologer, 5:30PM

South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Mary “Norski” Gorball discusses and signs Where My Dolly Lives, 2PM

Saturday, February 18:

Austin
Austin Community College - Highland, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "The Craft of Short Fiction: Telling the Story with Fewer Words and More Punch" with Lindsey Lane, 9AM

Austin Public Library - Windsor Park, Spoken word poetry with Ebony Stewart, 6PM

Austin Public Library - Yarborough, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Anne McCrady, 1:30PM

BookPeople, SARAH PINBOROUGH speaking & signing Behind Her Eyes, 3PM

Half Price Books - North Lamar, local author Cynthia Flynn will sell and sign her new Christian living book God, the Financial Genius, 1PM

Mexican American Cultural Center, launch of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, 5PM

Sharp Noggin, Workshop: Legacy Writing I: The Memoir and the Autobiography, 10AM

Dallas

African American Museum, The Texas Writers' Workshop, ?

B&N - Preston/Royal, E.R. Bills signs Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, 2PM

Margo Jones Theatre, Lyn Liric: A poet's tribute to Nina Simone, 8PM

El Paso

Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Nancy Lorenza Green presents Inspirational Voices: Langston Hughes, 12:45PM

Houston

Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, all day

Murder By the Book, Charles Cumming will sign and discuss The Divided Spy, 5:30PM

University of St. Thomas, Duo La Note Bleue: Powers of Music, a lecture-recital with Marcelo Zigaran, author of Powers of Music, 7:30PM

Writespace, Workshop: Introduction to the Writing Life with Elizabeth White Olsen, 9:30AM

Midland
Susie's South (S/40) Forty Confections, Join Jaden and McKinley Evans at the book signing and reading of Jaden's books, The Rain and The Magical Block Tower, 10AM

Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, Steven Brust Meet & Greet and Book Signing, 4PM

San Antonio

B&N - Bandera Pointe, Pamela Humphrey signs The Blue Reboza and Finding Clair, 1PM

Red Balloon Bookshop, local author Mary Losure launches Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton Reveal'd, 2PM

San Antonio Public Library - Igo, San Antonio Romance Authors meeting featuring Cathy Maxwell, 10:30AM

The Twig Book Shop, Sharon Falk reads and signs One Time I Went to Grammy's, 11AM

South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Discussion and Book signing with Rodeo historian and author, Gail Woerner, 1PM

Sugar Land
Half Price Books, Rosalie King will sell and sign Deadly Transformation, 1PM

The Woodlands

B&N - Woodlands Mall, Zeola Jackson signs Lizzy The Bear Has Feelings Too!, 2PM

Sunday, February 19:

Austin

4th Tap Brewing Co-op, Revel Unclassified Sunday Brunch: musicians, writers, and artists will collaborate to tell stories through music, spoken word, and visual art, 12:30PM

Austin History Center, discussion and book signing with the editors of Celebrating the Rag: Austin's Iconic Underground Newspaper, 2PM

BookPeople, Poet FRANCES SCHENKKAN speaking & signing Mr. Stevens' Secretary, 3PM

Half Price Books - North Lamar, local author Heather Schwartz will sell and sign Darkness Falls, 1PM

Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Ginny Wiehardt, Julie Poole & Drea Brown, 2PM

Dallas

B&N - Preston/Royal, Dr. Brian King signs The Laughing Cure, 1PM

Deep Vellum Books, Author Visit: Joel Berg discusses and signs America, We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, 4:30PM

Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

Omni Dallas Hotel at Park West, Jane Austen Society of North Texas meeting with Dr. Gillian Dow, author of Chawton House Library, 2PM

Houston

Murder By the Book, Sarah Pinborough will sign and discuss Behind Her Eyes, 2PM

Irving
Irving Public Library: South, African American Read-In 2017: One World, Many Tales with Varian Johnson, 1:30PM

San Antonio

B&N - Bandera Pointe, Author Signing: From the Barrio to the Board Room with Dr. Laura Nobles Banks-Reed, 2:30PM

B&N - La Cantera, February Sunday Storytime: Guest Joy Fisher Hein, 12PM

The Twig Book Shop, Charles Parish discusses and signs The Groom Wore White Socks, 11AM

South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series with Emmy Perez, author of With the River On Our Face, and Britt Haraway, author of Early Men, 2PM