Monday Roundup: TEXAS LITERARY CALENDAR September 10-16, 2018

Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 10-16, 2018: 

Special Events:
Heritage Auctions: Rare Books & Maps, Dallas, September 13

Texas Word Wrangler Festival, Giddings, September 13-15

Literacy Instruction for Texas presents Toast to Literacy, Dallas, September 14

Jaipur Literature Festival, Houston, September 14-15

Picture Book Retreat for Authors & Illustrators, Temple, September 14-16

Ongoing Exhibits:

Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30

"Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem" photography exhibition (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply), Austin, August 29-December 8

The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust exhibition (from the book The Texas Liberators: Veteran Narratives from World War II), Houston, September 7-October 28

Monday, September 10:

Austin
BookPeople, JOHN LARISON speaking & signing Whiskey When We're Dry (in conversation with John Pipkin), 7PM

Malvern Books, Austin Community College Literary Coffeehouse: Reading & Open Mic, 7PM

Dallas
Interabang Books, Dr. Ben Lynch discussing and signing DIRTY GENES, 7PM

UT-Dallas, Hay Festival at UT-Dallas with Bogotá39 writers Eduardo Rabasa and Daniel Saldaña, and translator Christina MacSweeney, 7PM

Woodlands American Grill, Join Ashley Weaver for dinner and a discussion of her new book, An Act of Villainy, 7PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, & Giovanni Regano reading & signing ILLEGAL, 7PM

Murder By the Book, William Kent Krueger will sign and discuss Desolation Mountain, 6:30PM

Tuesday, September 11:

Arlington
UTA - University Center, At the Crossroads of the New Generation of Latin American Authors: A conversation with acclaimed and award-winning writers, 11AM

Austin

Flat Track Coffee, Chicon Street Poets hosts Living Room Lit: Spoken Word Open Mic + Mingle, 7:30PM

Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave's Story Department presents "Get Out," 7:30PM

Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 7:15PM

Cedar Hill
Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group meeting featuring Kathleen Baldwin, 7PM

Dallas

Fair Park, Dallas Historical Society Brown Bag Luncheon with Carmen Goldthwaite, author of Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History and Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie, 12PM

SMU - Cox School, Literature & Politics in Latin America: Conversation w/ Bogotá 39 Writers, 5:30PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookstore, Mac Barnett will discuss and sign MAC UNDERCOVER, 5PM

Brazos Bookstore, Randy Kennedy reading and signing PRESIDIO, 7PM

Congregation Emanu El, Preservation Houston's History in Print author series presents architect and architectural photographer Bronson Dorsey discussing his new book, Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, 6:30PM

Warehouse Live, The Moth Houston StorySLAM presents "Education," 7:30PM

San Antonio

The Mix, PuroSlam featuring DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM

The Twig Book Shop, Jasminne Mendez reading from and signing Night Blooming Jasminne: Personal /Essays and Poems, 5PM

Wednesday, September 12:

Austin
BookPeople, SARAH IVENS speaking & signing Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You, 7PM

BookWoman, Celebrating National Policewoman's Day: A Reading and Discussion with Sarah Cortez and Susana Sanchez, 7:30PM

Dallas

Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors LIVE! presents C.J. Chivers and The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, 6PM

Interabang Books, Randy Kennedy reading and signing PRESIDIO, 7PM

Sandaga 813, LitNight with Sanderia Faye, 7:30PM

The Wild Detectives, Inner Moonlight Poetry Series featuring Caitlin Pryor and Sebastian H. Paramo (open mic to follow), 7:30PM

Houston

Avant Garden, Write about Now Poetry Open Mic featuring Travis Snell, 7:30PM

Brazos Bookstore, Sarah Bird reading and signing DAUGHTER OF A DAUGHTER OF A QUEEN, 7PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Mimi Swartz discussing and signing Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart, 5PM

World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, Diana Untermeyer discussing Qatar: Land, Sea and Sky, 6PM

San Antonio
UIW Concert Hall, Distinguished Speakers Series presents Anthony Graves, an exonerated Texas Death Row prisoner and author of Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul, 7PM

Thursday, September 13:

Austin

Austin Public Library, Austin Book Arts Center Celebration and Fundraiser, 6PM

BookPeople, RANDY KENNEDY speaking & signing Presidio, 7PM

BookWoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring Lisa Dordal, 7:15PM

Malvern Books, Novel Night with N. M. Cedeño, Meredith Lee & Laura Oles, 7PM

Bryan
SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk with Bob Pankey, 6:30PM

Corpus Christi
TAMUCC, 2018 Windward Review release celebration, readings & open mic, 6PM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Dr. Mike Brooks discussing and signing Tech Generation:Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World, 7PM

Half Price Books Mother Ship, Leslie F. Halleck will discuss and sign her new book, Gardening Under Lights: The Complete Guide for Indoor Growers, 7PM

Interabang Books, Timothy Krause discussing and signing FINDING THEO, 7PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, David Margrave reading and signing WHEN FUR AND FEATHER GET TOGETHER, 7PM

Cullen Sculpture Garden, Tintero Projects hosts Art + Poetry: A Walkabout Literary Experience, 7PM

Rice U - Fondren Library, "Feminism, Production, and Reproduction:" A free public lecture delivered by Elissa Braunstein, co-editor of Feminist Economics, 4PM

Murder By the Book, Caz Frear will sign and discuss Sweet Little Lies, 6:30PM

San Antonio
The Movement Gallery, Noche de Recuerdos Poetry & Visual Art Showcase (an SA 300 event), 6PM

Our Lady of the Lake University, Sheryl St. Germain will be reading from her new collection of poems, The Small Door of Your Death, 7PM

San Marcos

Texas State - Alkek Library, Wittliff Collections readings presents Tyehimba Jess, 3:30PM

Sugar Land

B&N - First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Victoria
UH-Victoria, American Book Review reading series presents Mark Amerika, 11AM

Friday, September 14:

Arlington
UTA Central Library, Friends of the UTA Libraries hosts Rusty Williams discussing The Red River Bridge War, 7:30PM

Austin

BookPeople, GARY SHTEYNGART speaking and signing Lake Success, 7PM [ticketed event]

Malvern Books, Borderless: Conversations on Art, Action, and Justice with Rinku Sen, author of The Accidental American and Stir It Up: Lessons on Community Organizing, 7PM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Launch Party for Fangoria Presents: Our Lady of the Inferno, 7PM

Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Society hosts Girls Night Out - Poetry Night, 8PM

Interabang Books, Sam Wyly discussing and signing DALLAS GOT IT RIGHT, 1PM

Mighty Fine Arts, Poets on the X+ featuring False Flag Document, 8PM

Houston

The Ballroom at Bayou Place, DeRay Mckesson discussing ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM, 7:30PM

Brazos Bookstore, Jeffrey S. Sposato discussing and signing LEIPZIG AFTER BACH, 7PM

Kyle
KAP Literary Center, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center readings presents Tyehimba Jess, 7:30PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Vincent Di Blasi reading from and signing To Whom it May Concern, 5PM

Saturday, September 15:

Austin

BookPeople, SCOTT WESTERFELD speaking & signing Impostors, 2PM

Central Presbyterian Church, BookPeople presents DERAY MCKESSON speaking about On the Other Side of Freedom: A Case for Hope, 6PM [ticketed event]

Half Price Books - N. Lamar, local author Mary Bryan Stafford will sell and sign her Texas-based historical novel, The Last Whippoorwill, 1PM

Little Walnut Creek Library, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Brittani Sonnenberg, 1:30PM

St. Edward's University, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Narrative Lab: Experiments for Concocting Livelier, More Interesting Prose" with Adam Soto, 10AM

Dallas

Interabang Books, Story time: Grant Maloy Smith with FLY POSSUM FLY, 10:30AM

University Park Public Library, Suzanne Asaff Blankenship discussing and signing How To Take Care of Old People Without Losing Your Marbles, 10:00AM

Denton
B&N - GTM, Local authors Felicia Hall and Cameron Hall book signing, 2PM

El Paso

B&N - Sunland Park, Fort Bliss, Texas signing with John Hamilton, 2PM

Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Childhood and Children -- Remembering and Observing" with Annette Velsquez, 12:45PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Join author Cate Berry for a special story time with her picture book PENGUIN AND TINY SHRIMP DON'T DO BEDTIME!, 11AM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Dylan Powell will discuss and sign his book 100 THINGS TO DO IN HOUSTON BEFORE YOU DIE, 3PM

Brazos Bookstore, A special story time with David Margrave, 10:30AM

Brazos Bookstore, Josh Higgins discussing and signing INTROFLIRTED, 7PM

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

Kaboom Books, "I am Strength - Celebrating Women's Lives" reading & book signing, 6:30PM

Murder By the Book, James R. Benn will sign and discuss Solemn Graves, 1PM

Murder By the Book, Reed Farrel Coleman will sign and discuss Robert B. Parker's Colorblind, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Deanne Wagner White reading and signing Under the Sea with Otty and Shelly, 3PM

Writespace, Workshop: "Technical Writing II" with Andreana Binder, 9:30AM

Writespace, Workshop: "Spiritual Memoir" with Cameron Dezen Hammon, 1PM

San Antonio

Dead Tree Books, Lynn Maverick Denzer signing Old Villita and La Villita Continues, 2PM

The Twig Book Shop, Melissa and Jim Riche signing Mod Mirage: The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage, 11AM

Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Jon Finkel signing The Athlete: Greatness, Grace and the Unprecedented Life of Charlie Ward, 1PM

Sugar Land
Half Price Books, local author R.R. Born will sell and sign her fantasy book, May Day: A Gray Witch Novel, 1PM

Tomball
Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue, Wyatt McSpadden signing TEXAS BBQ: Small Town to Downtown, 11AM

Sunday, September 16:

Austin
BookPeople, Great American Reads discussion kickoff show, 1PM

BookPeople, REED FARREL COLEMAN speaking & signing Robert B. Parker's Colorblind, 5PM

Dallas

Half Price Books - Mother Ship, local author Steve Kravetz will sell and sign his novel, A Marijuana Man: A Dealer's Diary, 1PM

The Wild Detectives, Backyard Story Night: Dallas Edition, 7PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Shelley Johannes presents BEATRICE ZINKER, UPSIDE DOWN THINKER, 3PM

Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School, Inprint Cool Brains! series presents Sylvia Acevedo, author of Path to the Stars, 3PM

Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Wyatt McSpadden signing TEXAS BBQ: Small Town to Downtown, 1PM

Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: "Time Flies: Managing the Passage of Time on the Page" with Amber Royer, 3PM

San Antonio
Dead Tree Books, R.W. Beckett signing his poetry collection, Soliloquy, 2PM

Landa Library, Author Visit: Gabriela Gonzalez, PhD, presents Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, 3PM

The Twig Book Shop, 2019 Texas Poetry Calendar at The Twig, 6PM