Monday Roundup: November 2 - 8, 2015

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Bookish events in Texas for the week of November 2 - 8, 2015:

Special Events:
Ann & Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston, November 1 - 15

NaNoWriMo, November 1 - 30

Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, Wichita Falls, November 1 - December 1

George West Storyfest, November 6 - 8

5th Annual Author Showcase, Winnsboro, November 7

EPCC Lit Fiesta, El Paso, November 7

McAllen Book Festival, November 7

Monday, November 2:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Jon Acuff Discussion, Q&A, and Book Signing for Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck, 7PM

BookPeople, Bestselling Author SARAH VOWELL speaking & signing Lafayettte in the Somewhat United States, 7PM

SMU - Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Jami Attenberg will discuss and sign Saint Mazie, 12PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Maggie Battista discusses and signs FOOD GIFT LOVE, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Steven Saylor will sign and discuss Wrath of the Furies, 6:30PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Reading and signing with poet Colin Halloran, 5PM

Tuesday, November 3:

Austin
BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents Bestselling Author STEVEN SAYLOR speaking & signing Wrath of the Furies, 7PM

Malvern Books, An Evening of poetry with Colin Halloran & Mark Harden, 7PM

The North Door, Owen Egerton's One Page Salon with Natalie Grigson, Mike Yang, Bernadette Noll, Ross Smith & Matt the Electrician, 7PM

Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Newt Gingrich sign Duplicity, 7PM

B&N - Lincoln Park, Callista Gingrich signs Christmas in America, 7PM

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Judith B. Tankard (Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden), Diane Dorrans Saeks (Jean-Louis Deniot: Interiors) and Meryle Secrest (Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography) are the featured authors of the ninth annual A Writer�s Garden Literary Symposium and Luncheon, 9:30AM

Half Price Books Mother Ship, Penguin Teen on Tour with Ally Condie, Jandy Nelson, and Meg Wolitzer, 7PM

SMU - McCord Auditorium, Professors Adam Arenson and Andrew Graybill present Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States, 5:30PM

Denton

B&N, Let's Kill Mom: Four Texas Teens and a Horrifying Murder Pact book signing with Donna Fielder, 6PM

El Paso

UTEP Library, Presentation by Maissa Khatib and Miguel Juarez on the book Uprooting Community by Selfa A. Chew, 12PM

Fort Worth

The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Catherine Madison discusses and signs THE WAR CAME HOME WITH HIM, 7PM

Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: , 6:30PM

Murder By the Book, Nancy Martin will sign and discuss the first Miss Ruffle mystery, Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything, 6:30PM

Sachse
Sachse Public Library, NaNoWriMo event with author Taylor Stevens, 6PM

San Antonio

The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

The Twig Book Shop, Jim Harter discusses and signs Early Automobiles A History in Advertising Line Art, 5PM [Due to Jim's unexpected passing, this event will be a memorial event to celebrate Jim's life with friends, family, and fans.]

Wednesday, November 4:

Austin
BookPeoople, Bestselling Author WENDY WILLIAMS speaking & signing The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion, 7PM

Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Brantley Hightower discusses The Courthouses of Central Texas, 12PM

JCC Community Hall, Austin Jewish Book Fair presents: Book Lovers Luncheon with Dafna Michaelson Jenet, 11AM

Malvern Books, Dalton Day launches Actual Cloud with Layne Ransom and Sam Sax, 7PM

Dallas

Dallas Public Library - Central, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor present Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, 7PM

The Wild Detectives, poet Colin D. Halloran presents Icarian Flux, 7:30PM

Houston

B&N - River Oaks, Newt Gingrich signs Duplicity, 7PM

B&N - River Oaks, Callista Gingrich signs Christmas in America, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Robert Jensen discusses and signs PLAIN RADICAL, 7PM

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, David Gregory presents How�s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey, 7:30PM

Katy Budget Books, Jo and Josephine Harper share their book Whistling Willie from Amarillo, Texas for story time, 10AM

Murder By the Book, Jenn McKinlay will sign and discuss A Likely Story, 6:30PM

Round Rock

The Book Spot, Reception for area librarians, 4PM

San Antonio
Palo Alto College, Reading and discussion with US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, 7:30PM

The Twig Book Shop, Catherine Madison discusses and signs The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter's Memoir, 6PM

Thursday, November 5:

Austin

BookPeople, Bestselling Author MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI speaking & signing The Familiar Volume 2: Into the Forest, 7PM

Harry Ransom Center, Poet Srikanth Reddy, 7PM

Uncommon Objects, Bestselling Author EDWARD CAREY speaking & signing Lungdon: Iremonger Three, 7:30PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck book signing with Jon Acuff, 7PM

SMU - Perkins Prothro Hall, Joshua Rovner (Fixing the Facts) will moderate a discussion on �The Rise of ISIS� with Joby Warrick (Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS) and Caitlin Talmadge (The Dictator�s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes), 5:30PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, The Class Acts tour with authors Tim Green, J.A. White, Tom Watson, Nate Ball, Annabeth Bondor-Stone, and Connor White, 5PM

Bright Sky Press, Bill Boyce launches Miss Fortune�s Last Mission: Uncovering A Story of Sacrifice & Survival, 5PM

Jung Center of Houston, Dr. Carol S. Pearson presents Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within, 6PM

Kaboom Books, Transcendent Zero Press brings you Usha Akella, 7:30PM

Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston, Orhan Pamuk presents A Strangeness in My Mind, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Tess Gerritsen will sign and discuss Playing With Fire, 6:30PM

North Shore Community Expo, Dee Maner presents Artie: The First Artificial Christmas Tree, 10AM

Pachyderm Club, Bill Boyce presents Miss Fortune�s Last Mission: Uncovering A Story of Sacrifice & Survival, 11AM

River Oaks Bookstore, William J. Boyce will discuss and sign Miss Fortune's Last Mission, 5:30PM

Lubbock
Texas Tech - English Auditorium, Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Curtis Bauer and Kurt Caswell, 7:30PM

San Antonio

Beethoven Maennerchor, Launch Party for Wendy Barker's One Blackbird at a Time and for her most recent chapbook From the Moon, Earth Is Blue, and for Natalia Trevi�o's first book of poetry, Lavando La Dirty Laundry, 7PM

Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio Express-News Book and Author Luncheon, 10AM

Friday, November 6:

Austin

BookPeople, JOSEPH FINK & JEFFREY CRANOR in conversation with Steph Opitz, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival, about their new novel, Welcome to Night Vale, 7PM

BookWoman, TORCH Wildfire Reading Series featuring Parneshia Jones and Ellen Hagan, 6:30PM

Brave New Books, Unspoken! Voluntaryist open mic for speakers, thinkers and artists, 7PM

Malvern Books, William Virgil Davis launches Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New, 7PM

Monkeywrench Books, Invisible in Austin with Dr. Javier Auyero, et al, 6:30PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, John Corbett discusses and signs MICROGROOVE, 7PM

Fox & Hound Bar & Grill, Scriptwriters/Houston presents the 4th Annual Tournament of Monologues, 6PM

Murder By the Book, Beatriz Williams with sign and discuss Along the Infinite Sea, 6:30PM

Lubbock

B&N, Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon signing A Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch, 4PM

Oakville
Oakville Jailhouse Lodge, 5th annual Dobie Dichos storytelling event, 6PM

Odessa
Deaderick Auditorium, A night with David Sedaris, 7PM [sold out]

San Antonio
Tacoland, Gemini Ink Reading Series with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Octavio Quintanilla, 6:30PM

Saturday, November 7:

Allen
Allen Public Library, Carole Nelson Douglas (Good Night, Mr. Holmes) and Sherlock Holmes scholar Don Hobbs are the keynote speakers at the Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture symposium, 9AM

Austin

BookPeople, celebrate five years of MysteryPeople with cake, champagne, mystery trivia, give aways and a panel discussion about the future of crime fiction, 3PM

BookWoman, Karla Jay reading and signing Speaking in Tungs, 5:30PM

Brave New Books, Roger Stone Book Signing, 7PM

Malvern Books, Borderlands: Issue 43 Launch Party with Jonathan Moody, Ariana Brown, Robert Lunday, Jonelle Seitz, Ally Young, and Vanessa Zimmer-Powell, 3PM

Malvern Books, Pablo Miguel Mart�nez launches CUENT@ with Liliana Valenzuela, 7PM

Natural Gardener, Judy Barrett signs Easy Edibles: How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food, ?

Resistencia Bookstore, Poetry y Pl�tica with Maya Chinchilla, 5PM

St. Edward's University, Texas Writers' League Workshop - "More Human: The Delicate Art of Writing Effective Protagonists" with Sara Kocek, 9AM

Cedar Hill
B&N, Justus L. Clark signs Expressway, 1PM

Corpus Christi

B&N, Vianney Rodriguez signs Latin Twist: Traditional & Modern Cocktails + demonstration, 5PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Timothy B Jones and David C. Barrett discuss and sign Harnessing The Dynamics of Public Education, 2PM

The Wild Detectives, Merrill Beth Nisker (aka PEACHES) will sign and greet fans of the book What else is on The Teaches of Peaches, 2PM

El Paso

Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Falling" with Julia Quintanar, 12:45PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Anna Mitchael will discuss and sign COPYGIRL, 2PM

Brazos Bookstore, Kimbilio in Houston with Mat Johnson, Sanderia Faye, Talisha Shelly, Julia Brown, and Adrienne Perry, 7PM

Half Price Books - Montrose, Shirley Jordan will sell and sign her books, Following My Mother�s Footsteps and I�m Not Superwoman, 1PM