Monday Roundup: TEXAS LITERARY CALENDAR 6/19-25

Bookish events in Texas for the week of June 19-25, 2017: 

Special Events:
11th Annual African American Book Festival, Austin, June 24

Dallas Author Expo, The Colony, June 24

Ongoing Exhibits:

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

Sandra Cisneros: A House of Her Own Exhibition, San Marcos, February 15-July 1

Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5-August 13

Print Houston 2017, June 5-July 3

Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8-September 1

Monday, June 19:

Austin

BookPeople, AMELIA GRAY speaking & signing Isadora (in conversation with Susan Quesal), 7PM

Dozen Street, Chicon Street Poets featuring Donna Hilbert (plus Haiku challenge and open mic), 7PM

Houston

Murder By the Book, Mike Maden will sign Tom Clancy Point of Contact, 6:30PM

Tuesday, June 20:

Austin

BookPeople, SAMANTHA IRBY speaking & signing We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (in conversation with JENNY LAWSON), 7PM

BookWoman, Edie Jarolim discusses and signs GETTING NAKED FOR MONEY: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All, 7PM

Dallas

CBS Radio Performance Showroom, DFW World Affairs Council hosts Manal al-Sharif discussing and signing Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, 7PM

Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Chuck Klosterman and the forthcoming Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, 7:30PM

The Wild Detectives, A panel of local authors discusses "Publishing on Amazon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," 7:30PM

Fort Worth

The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and open mic!, 8PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Carolyn Parkhurst will discuss and sign her novel HARMONY, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Jennifer Latson discusses and signs THE BOY WHO LOVED TOO MUCH, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Karen Dionne will sign and discuss The Marsh King's Daughter, 6:30PM

Irving
South Irving Library, Space Runners Scavenger Hunt with author Jeramey Kraatz, 2PM

San Antonio

The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM

Wednesday, June 21:

Austin

BookPeople, LISA WINGATE speaking & signing Before We Were Yours, 7PM

Malvern Books, second Austin edition of the Why There Are Words reading series featuring Jan Reid, M.M. Adjarian, Michael DiLeo, and Christine Albert, 7PM

Houston

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

Murder By the Book, Ben Coes will sign and discuss Trap The Devil, 6:30PM

Lewisville

Half Price Books, Mike Maden signs Tom Clancy: Point of Contact, 7PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Gillian Thomas discusses and signs Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work, 5PM

Thursday, June 22:

Austin

BookPeople, Chef TERRY THOMPSON-ANDERSON speaking & signing Breakfast in Texas, 7PM

Carver Museum & Library, Angie Thomas discusses and signs The Hate You Give (in conjunction with the 11th Annual African American Book Festival), 6:30PM

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

Boerne
Patrick Heath Public Library, Reading and Discussion with author Naomi Shihab Nye, 6PM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Nonfiction Authors Association - Dallas Chapter meeting: "The Economics of Publishing" with Glenn Yeffeth, CEO of BenBella Books, 7PM

Lucky Dog Books - Casa Linda, Dallas author Monica Shaw discusses and signs her debut novel, The Rainwater Secret, 7PM

SMU, Workshop: "How to Self-Publish Your Book -- Economically, Quickly, and Professionally" with Len Bourland, 7PM

The Wild Detectives, Leah Tieger will read from her new chapbook, We and She, You and Then, You Again, along with readings from local poets, courtney marie, Fatima Ayan Malika Hirsi, and Sophia Terazawa, 7:30PM

Houston

Architecture Center Houston (ArCH), AIA Houston, ArCH, and the Houston Public Library present Authors in Architecture: Pino Shah and Stephen Fox discuss and sign Architecture of The Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, 5:30PM

Brazos Bookstore, panel discussion about war fiction with three contributors to the 2017 veteran fiction anthology The Road Ahead: Fiction From the Forever War (moderated by Brian Van Reet, Houston native and author of the 2017 Iraq war novel, Spoils), 7PM

Four Leaf Towers, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts retired CIA operations officer Charles Goslin discussing and signing Understanding Personal Security and Risk: A Guide for Business Travelers, 6:30PM

McGovern Centennial Gardens at Hermann Park, Doug Hoerr will discuss and sign Movement and Meaning, which features the McGovern Centennial Park, plus a tour of the gardens, 5PM

Moody Center for the Arts, Celebrate the release of Gulf Coast Journal Issue 29.2, 7PM

Plainview
Air Race Classic, Sarah Byrn Rickman will be signing Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot, 11AM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Edie Jarolim discusses and signs Getting Naked For Money: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All, 5PM

Sugar Land
B&N - First Colony, Storytime With Local Author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Friday, June 23:

Austin

BookPeople, JAN REID speaking & signing Sins of the Younger Sons, 7PM

Lake Austin Spa Resort, best-selling author and meditation mentor Sarah McLean shares insights from her newest book, The Power of Attention, 5:30PM

Malvern Books, I Scream Social reading series 2nd Birthday Bash!, 7PM

Dallas
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents Lip Synch Battle, 8PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Gwendolyn Womack reads and signs THE FORTUNE TELLER, 7PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Will Jensen reads and signs Cities of Men, 5PM

Saturday, June 24:

Austin

Austin Public Library - Howson, Meet the Author: former news anchor Olga Campos Benz reads and signs her novel, It’s News to Me, 1PM

BookPeople, MICHAEL MERSCHEL speaking & signing Revenge of the Star Survivors, 2PM

BookPeople, CORA CARMACK speaking & signing Roar, 6PM

Half Price Books - North Lamar, local author Shannon Mokry will sell and sign her children's book Bubbles and the Berry Bush, 1PM

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

Burleson

Half Price Books, local author Jane Alvey Harris will sell and sign her YA novel Riven, 11AM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Bill Ayers discusses and signs Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto, 11AM

Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry reading series, 7PM

El Paso

El Paso Public Library - Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Catharsis: A Workshop on Emotional Literature" with Evan Taylor, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

B&N - Hulen Center, Urban Cowgirl: Decadently Southern, Outrageously Texan, Food, Family Traditions, and Style for Modern Life book signing with Sarah Penrod, 2PM

Galveston

Galveston Bookshop, N. E. Brown signs The Altercation, the 6th installment of the Galveston Indignities series, 11AM

Galveston Bookshop, Birney T. “Chick” Havey signs his WWII memoir, Never Left the Battlefields, 2PM

Houston

Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Half Price Books - Kirkwood, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie author Sarafia Jones–Hall and pick up her latest release, while supplies last

Houston Public Library - Young Branch, Author ALOUD with romance author Cydney Rax, 2PM

Katy Budget Books, Ivy Foster signs her inspirational children's book From A to Z: I Am Invaluable Me, 12PM

Murder By the Book, Haylen Beck (Stuart Neville) will sign and discuss Here and Gone, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Connie Rankin discusses and signs God Gave Us Wings: A Journey to Success: Theirs, Mine, and Yours, 3PM

Rudyard's Pub, Public Poetry presents The PM Show: Poets & Musicians featuring poets Loueva Smith, James Trotter, and RJ Wright, and Grammy-nominated Fiddle Witch and the Demons of Doom (followed by open mic), 8:30PM

William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Summer Soiree Series featuring The Book as Art by Charles D. Jones, 1PM

Writespace, Workshop: "Fiction From Facts: Mining the Media for Characters and Plots" with Marian Szczepanski, 9:30AM

Lubbock
B&N, The Wayward Astronomer book signing with Geoffrey Thomas, 1PM

San Antonio

B&N - La Cantera, Guest author Aurora Dawning book signing, 1PM

Ruiz-Healy Art, Helen Kleberg Groves will read and sign copies of her new book, Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch, 2PM

The Twig Book Shop, Lauren Patrick signs Helping Daddy Ray on the Farm, 11AM

The Twig Book Shop, Eric Sirotkin signs Witness: A Lawyer's Journey from Litigation to Liberation, 2PM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre, Reflejos de Estrella: Cuentos que sanan el alma (Star Reflexes: Stories That Heal the Soul) discussion, reception, and signing with author Blanca Dominguez, 1PM

Southlake

B&N - Town Square, Paige Bowers signing The General's Niece, 1PM

Sunday, June 25:

Austin

4th Tap Brewing Co-Op, 2017 REVEL Solstice Fest: "Deeper Into the World" with cellist Joel Becktell, pianist Carla McElhaney, and poet Cecily Parks, 12:30PM 

BookPeople, SARAH MCLEAN speaking & signing The Power of Attention, 2PM

Malvern Books, Liv Hadden launches The Adventures of Juice Box and Shame, 3PM

Malvern Books, 2017 REVEL Solstice Festival: A Blank Canvas continues with “The 3 B’s: Bach, Bukowski, and Brown” featuring cellist Joel Becktell and poet Nathan Brown, former Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma, 7PM

Wildflower Terrace, An Afternoon with the Author featuring Helen Ginger, author of DEADPOINT, 1PM

Dallas

Dallas Public Library - Preston/Royal, local author Nell Taylor reads her new children's book, Potatoland and the Fable of Thunder and Lightning, 2PM

Deep Vellum Books, Dori Scarano discusses and signs Millie's Butterflies, 2PM

Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

The Wild Detectives, Bonehouse poetry reading, 6PM

Houston
Writespace, Workshop: "Building an Author Platform" with Joy Preble, 3PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Sandy Loker signs Can I Sniff My Way to Heaven?, 11AM