Monday Roundup: TEXAS LITERARY CALENDAR July 11-17

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

Special Events:
Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, July 12-15

Macondo Writers Workshop, 14-17

2nd Annual San Antonio Indie Book Fest, July 16

Stop Dreaming and Start Doing: A Conference for Aspiring Writers, Post, July 16

Ongoing Exhibits:

Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22

Monday, July 11:

Austin
BookPeople, Writer RACHEL STARNES speaking & signingThe War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions Impossible): A Memoir, 7PM

Dallas
Half Price Books Mothership, JONAH LISA DYER & STEPHEN DYER BOOK LAUNCH PARTY for The Season, 7PM [PASS REQUIRED]

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Becky Wade will discuss and sign RUN THE WORLD: MY 3,500 MILE JOURNEY THROUGH RUNNING CULTURES AROUND THE GLOBE, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Venugopal Menon discusses and signs MY MOTHER CALLED ME UNNI, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Martin Limon will sign and discuss Ping-Pong Heart, 6:30PM

Sugar Land
B&N - First Colony Mall, Story time: Elizabeth Dettling Moreno reads and signs Sancho the Silly Billy Goat, 11AM

Tuesday, July 12:

Austin

BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents MARTIN LIMON speaking and signing Ping-Pong Heart, BILLY KRING speaking and signing TonTon, and MANNING WOLFE speaking & signing Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs. Boots King, 7PM

Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Cedar Hill
Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group meeting featuring Dr. Paul Schrodt, the Philip J. and Cheryl C. Burgui�res Professor of Communication Studies at Texas Christian University, 7PM

Dallas
Half Price Books Mothership, Scholastic Summer Reading Road Trip with Eric Barclay reading and signs Hiding Phil, and Paige Britt reading and signing The Lost Track of Time, and Jennifer Ziegler reading and signing Revenge of the Angels, plus Clifford the Big Red Dog and Geronimo Silton, 4PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Leslie Contreras Schwartz reads from and signs FUEGO, 7PM

Houston Maritime Museum, HMM History Lecture Series: The Voyage of Life by author and professor Stephen Curley, 7PM

Murder By the Book, David Bell will sign and discuss Since She Went Away, 6:30PM

St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Preservation Houston's History in Print author series presents award-winning Houston architect/author Donna Kacmar, who will discuss and sign BIG Little Houses: Small Houses Designed By Architects, 6:30PM

Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Neighborhoods, 7:30PM

San Angelo
San Angelo Writers Club, Dana Glossbrenner reads from her debut novel The Lark, 7PM

San Antonio

Briscoe Western Art Museum, John Phillip Santos discusses The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy, 6:30PM

The Korova, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Southlake
B&N - Town Square, The Season book signing with Johah Lisa Dyer, 6PM

Wednesday, July 13:

Austin
BookPeople, professional long-distance runner BECKY WADE speaking & signing Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe, 7PM

Dallas

The Wild Detectives, Ace Atkins reads and signs The Innocents, 7:30PM

Houston

Murder By the Book, Rachel Caine will sign and discuss Paper and Fire, the second book in the Great Library Series, 6:30PM

Thursday, July 14:

Austin
BookPeople, debut authors JONAH LISA DYER & STEPHEN DYER speaking & signing The Season, 7PM

BookWoman, 2nd Thursday Open Mic Poetry featuring Diane Walker, hosted by Allyson Whipple, 7:15PM

Malvern Book, Novel Night with Myra McIlvain & Elizabeth Thomas, 7PM

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

Recycled Reads, Badgerdog Poetry Reading featuring Sasha West, 6:30PM

Columbus
Nesbitt Library, Program and Book Signing: The Texas Landscape Project with David Todd and Jonathan Ogren, 7PM

Dallas
Green Dragon trolley at the Uptown Turntable, McKinney Avenue Transit Authority's inaugural lecture series presents Jeremy Enlow, exclusive photographer of Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch, followed by book signing, 5:30PM [TICKET REQUIRED]

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Rachel Starnes will discuss and sign her memoir THE WAR AT HOME, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Daniel Silva will sign and discuss The Black Widow, 6:30PM

Guadalupe Theater, Macondo Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Alex Espinoza, 7PM

Friday, July 15:

Alpine
Front Street Books, Elizabeth Garcia will read and sign The Trail of a Rattler, 5:30PM

Austin

BookPeople, award-winning journalist ANDREW NAGORSKI speaking & signing The Nazi Hunters, 7PM

The Writing Barn, Workshop: Finding Voice: The Language of Memoir with journalist Sarah Smarsh, 10AM

Harker Heights

B&N, Buntyn Family signing Cornbread in Buttermilk, 6PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Jesse Cancelmo discusses and signs GLORIOUS GULF OF MEXICO, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Ace Atkins will sign and discuss The Innocents, 6:30PM

Humble
B&N - Deerbrook Mall, George Arnold signing Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 4PM

San Angelo
The House of Fifi DuBois, Book launch party and signing for Dana Glossbrenner's debut novel The Lark, 4:30PM

San Antonio
Guadalupe Theater, Macondo Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Tim Hernandez, 7PM

Saturday, July 16:

Austin

BookPeople, New York Times bestselling author ACE ATKINS speaking & signing The Innocents, 3PM

Malvern Books, Indie Authors at Malvern Books: This month�s guests are James Lopez, Alex Bexar, and Catherine De Young, 3PM

Recycled Reads, Open Mic Showcase, 3:30PM

Dallas

B&N - Lincoln Park, Paul D. Spudis discusses and signs The Value of the Moon: How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources, 7PM

Denton

B&N - Golden Triangle Mall, Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas book signing with Richard Gonzales, 1PM

El Paso

B&N - Fountains at Farah, discussion and signing of Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard with New Mexico State Librarian Joy Poole, 2PM

B&N - Fountains at Farah, meet and greet J.L. Snyder, author of Battle Cry and Battle Cry 2: Shadow of the Sword, 5PM

Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Frances �Snookie� Golding:     It's Not Nice to Fool Mother: A New Way to Look at Yourself, 12:45PM

Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, JAN BENNETT BIRKS discusses and signs HOPE NEXT EXIT, 3PM

LaMancha Business Center, Write Fearlessly! with Rachel Pilcher, 2PM

Galveston
Galveston Bookshop, Elise Hopkins Stephens signs From Matriarch to Mayor: Eliza Kempner to Lyda Ann Thomas, Four Generations of Galveston�s Kempner Women Make their Mark, 2PM

Houston

B&N - River Oaks, Get Pop-Cultured: Sci-Fi Author Panel with Cassandra Rose Clark, Ryan Link, and D.L. Young, 2PM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Ali Miller will discuss and sign her cookbook NATURALLY NOURISHED: FOOD-AS-MEDICINE FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH, 1PM

Murder By the Book, Lili Wright will sign and discuss her debut novel Dancing with the Tiger, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Poetry Reading by Saint Julian Press Authors Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Ron Starbuck, and David-Glen Smith, 3PM

Writespace, Workshop: Crafting Effective Prose with Cassandra Clarke, 9:30AM

Humble
B&N - Deerbrook Mall, George Arnold signing Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 11AM

Marathon
Marathon Public Library, Writers' League of Texas presents Texas Writes Workshop with Donna M. Johnson and Michael Hall, 1PM

San Antonio

B&N - Ingram Festival, The Season book signing with Jonah Lisa Dyer, 1PM

Guadalupe Theater, Macondo Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Joe Jimenez, 3PM

Guadalupe Theater, Macondo Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Allison Hedge Coke, 7PM

The Twig Book Shop, Melanie Chrismer will discuss and sign Lone Star Legacy: The Texas Rangers Then and Now, 11AM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre, Marie Cook discusses and signs The Texas Coast Experience (from Texas Now Magazine), 1PM

Sulphur Springs
The Bookworm Box, Vannoy Fite signs Essential Oils for Healing, ?

The Woodlands

B&N - Woodlands Mall, Terril Hebert signs Devil's Dog - Man and Monster, 2PM

Sunday, July 17:

Austin
BookPeople, musician John Doe speaking & signing Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk, 2PM [TICKET REQUIRED]

Recycled Reads, Spoken Word, 2PM

Dallas

Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Daniel Silva will discuss and sign The Black Widow, 7PM

B&N - Preston/Park, Larry Solomon will sign and discuss Translate, Motivate, Activate: A Leader's Guide to Mobilizing Change, 2PM

Half Price Books Mothership, local author Tracy Lawson will sell and sign her new dystopian YA novel, Ignite, book three in the Resistance Series, 1PM

Houston
Sirrom Studio, Flamenco Poets Society presents Summer Flamenco Lectures 2016, 5PM

Humble
B&N - Deerbrook Mall, George Arnold signing Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 11AM