Monday Roundup: January 11 - 17

Bookish events in Texas for the week of January 11 - 17, 2016:      

Special Events:
Long-Bin Chen's The Book Garden sculpture exhibit, San Antonio, December 10 - February 20

Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 - May 29

Pulpwood Queen's Girlfriend Weekend, Nacogdoches, January 14 - 17

Austin Book, Paper, and Photo Show, January 15 - 16

Texas Seaport Museum Winter Lecture Series, Galveston, January 16 - 23

Monday, January 11:

Austin
BookPeople, debut author CARLY J. HALLMANspeaking & signing Year of the Goose, 7PM

Dallas

Half Price Books Mother Ship, Writers' League of Texas panel discussion: "Being a Good Literary Citizen," 7PM

Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art - Arts & Letters Live presents Mary Karr & Mary-Louise Parker: Memoiristas, 7:30PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Indie Press Night with publishers Archipelago, Tyrant Books, Restless Books, New Directions, and Open Letter, 7PM

Tuesday, January 12:

Austin

BookPeople, actress and author MARY LOUISE PARKER in conversation with Austin writer VINCENT SCARPA about Parker's new book, Dear Mr. You, 7PM
Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

The Wild Detectives, Indie Publisher Night with New Directions, Archipelago, Open Letter, & Deep Vellum, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Brandon Caro reads and signs OLD SILK ROAD & Clancy Martin reads and signs BAD SEX, 7PM

Domaine Cellars, Carlos Hamilton presents A Rose Blooms in Texas: Coming of Age in the Civil War Era, 6:30PM

Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Jeanette Peterson presents and signs Visualizing Guadalupe: From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas, 6:30PM

Italian Cultural & Community Center, Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, author of Divergenze in celluloidi: colore, migrazione, e identita' nei film gay di Ferzan Ozpetek, presents Film Screening & Lecture - "From Wise Guys to Good Guys: Food as Aphrodisiac in Bob Grimaldi's Dinner Rush", 6:15PM

Murder By the Book, Thomas Perry will sign and discuss his newest book Forty Thieves, 6:30PM

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in conjunction with Art, Body & Mind: Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, Alejandro Chaoul, author of Ch�d Practice in the B�n Religion, presents "Being Present: A Spiritual Experience", 6:30PM

Project Row Houses, In conjunction with Round 43, poet and performer Chaun Webster, author of Because When We Say NAT It Be Writ Large, presents "An Ecology of Our Own: Investigations of Magic & Place, Record & Resistance in Bookselling", 6:30PM

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

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, January 13:

Austin
BookPeople, O. Henry Prize Award Winner TIM JOHNSTON speaking & signing Descent, 7PM

BookWoman, "Writing from the Body" workshop with Peggy Lamb, 7PM

Crockett
J. H. Wooters Crockett Public Library, Writers' League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Meg Gardiner and Reavis Z. Wortham, 1PM

Dallas

The Wild Detectives, Carlos Labb� reads and signs Loquela, 7:30PM

Houston

AvantGarden, Write About Now poetry open mic, 7:30PM

Murder By the Book, Tami Hoag will sign & discuss The Bitter Season, 6:30PM

Thursday, January 14:

Addison
Greenhill School, Patricia Vermillion signs Texas Chili? Oh My!, ?

Austin

BookPeople, Debut Author NELLIE SYMM-GRUENDER speaking & signing Wisdom from the Cup, 7PM

BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic with Debra Winegarten, 7:15PM

Malvern Books, Novel Night with Boyd Taylor & Matt Minor, 7PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Greg Cope White signs The Pink Marine, 7PM

Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art - Arts & Letters Live presents Eric Weiner: Innovative Ideas, 7:30PM

The Wild Detectives, First Hearings Reading Series: David Searcy discusses Shame and Wonder, his new book of essays, with Ben Fountain, 7PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Alexandra Fuller discusses and signs LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Tim Johnston will sign and discuss Decent, 6:30PM

Friday, January 15:

Austin

BAM Academy, Nerd Fitness Founder STEVE KAMB speaking & signing Level Up Your Life, 6PM

BookPeople, Bestselling Author ERIC WEINER speaking & signing The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, 7PM

Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Joanna Fuhrman, Yerra Sugarman & Laurie Filipelli, 7PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Ross Smeltzer signs The Mark of the Shadow Grove,7PM

Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Houston Poet Laureate Finalist D.E.E.P., 8PM

Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art - Arts & Letters Live presents Helen Ellis: Twitter-Inspired Tales, 7:30PM

Lucky Dog Books - Oak Cliff, Poets On the X+ Soapbox open mic, 8PM

Houston

Murder By the Book, Val McDermid will sign and discuss the new Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel, Splinter the Silence, 6:30PM

University of Houston - Dudley Recital Hall, Slavs and Tatars performance-lecture: "The 

Transliterative Tease", 6PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Kij Johnson reads from and signs At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories, 6PM

Saturday, January 16:

Amarillo
Amarillo Senior Citizens Center, Panhandle Professional Writers meeting with presentation by author and former bull rider Chimp Robertson, 9:30AM

Austin

Austin Book Arts Center, Winter Open House, 12PM

B&N - Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With George Arnold, 2PM

BookPeople, Violinist & YouTube Star LINDSEY STIRLING speaking & signing The Only Pirate at the Party, 7PM

Half Price Books - North Lamar, Michael R. Collins will sell and sign Night Shall Overtake, 1PM

Half Price Books - South Lamar, Jaime Summers will sell and sign Playtionships: The New Paradigm, 1PM

Monkeywrench Books, Richard Zelade presents Austin Murder and Mayhem, 6PM

Resistencia Bookstore, A Life On Hold: a reading and book signing with Josie M�ndez-Negrete, 6PM

Dallas

B&N - Preston/Royal, Karen Blumenthal celebrates the release of Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History, 2PM

El Paso

B&N - Fountains at Farah, Margaret Mooney signing Redneck Opera, 2PM

B&N - Sunland Park, Catherine Chagra signing and discussion of Dirty Darlings, 1:30PM

Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Lets Rave" with Sandra Torrez, 12:45PM

Garland
B&N - Firewheel Mall, Coloring Event With Artist and Author Cher Kaufmann, 11:30AM

Houston

B&N - West Oaks, Elemental Fate book signing with Gretchen Dee, 2PM

Half Price Books - Westheimer/Montrose, local author Rebecca Gurnsey will sell and sign Loving Toby, 1PM

Murder By the Book, Helen Ellis will sign American Housewife: Stories, 4PM

The Printing Museum, Re-purposed Books workshop, 9AM

River Oaks Bookstore, Michael Williams discusses and signs Would You Hire Me?: Students Don�t Apply for A Job Without It, 1PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Joshua Evans discusses and signs Enthusiastic YOU!: Rediscover Your Passion & Energy: Tools for Success in Your Daily Life, 3PM

Writespace, Idea generator with Andreana Binder, 4PM

Pearland
B&N, Bartee Haile signs Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil, 2PM

San Antonio

B&N - Bandera Pointe, Rickey Pittman signs Rio Grand ABC, 2PM

The Twig Book Shop, James Rankin discusses and signs Corpus: Revelations and Reflections on the Body of Christ, 11AM

Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Susan Van Volkenburgh signing The Stone of Ebenezer, 2PM

Sugar Land

B&N, T.D. Hubbard signs Teylor High: The Summer Hook Up, 1PM

The Woodlands
B&N, Yvette McNeal signs Immeasurable Praise and Worship to God: Give to God What is Due, 2PM

Sunday, January 17:

Austin
Recycled Reads Bookstore, Spoken Word Round Robin, 2PM

Dallas
B&N - Preston/Royal, Richard Benjamin Cass signs Braniff Airways, Texas: Flying Colors, 1PM

Half Price Books - Mother Ship, Henry Cline will sell and sign Too Close For Comfort, 1PM