Monday Roundup: TEXAS LITERARY CALENDAR 9/12-18

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Bookish events in Texas for the week of September 12-18, 2016:

Special Events:
2nd Permian Basin Writers' Workshop, Midland, September 16-18

Mansfield Book Festival, September 17

The 30th Annual Library and Museum Collections Forum: Shakespeare's Legacy - Honoring the 400th Anniversary of the Bard's Death, Round Top, September 17

SPAN (Self Published Authors Network) Fest 2016, Fort Worth, September 17

Building a Writing Life: A Weekend Writing Retreat, Maxwell, September 17-18

Ongoing Exhibits:

Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, a Humanities Texas exhibit, Fort Worth, September 15-October 15

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, September 12:

Austin
BookPeople, Former Professional Football Player GEOFF HANGARTNER speaking & signing The Rookie Handbook, 7PM

Dallas
Hotel Crescent Court, Steven Lee Meyers discusses and signs The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, 6:30PM

Houston
Brazos Bookstore, James Dennis reads from and signs his debut poetry collection CORRESPONDENCE IN D MINOR, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Amy Stewart will sign and discuss Lady Cop Makes Trouble, 6:30PM

Midland
Centennial Library, As part of Project Literacy, Newbery Award winner Matt de la Pena signs Last Stop on Market Street, 5:30PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Alex Marwood reads and signs The Darkest Secret, 6PM

Tuesday, September 13:

Arlington
UTA - Texas Hall, Maverick Speaker Series presents Reza Azlan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, 7:30PM

Austin

BookPeople, CRAIG JOHNSON speaking & signing An Obvious Fact (Longmire #9), 7PM

Google Fiber, Story Bar Story Mixer with the Texas Book Festival and Austin International Poetry Festival, 6:30PM

O. Henry Museum, O. Henry's 154th Birthday Party, a fundraiser featuring Skip Hollandsworth discussing and signing The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer, 7PM

Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas
SMU - McFarlin Auditorium, Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics presents Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, + Q&A and book signing, 7PM

Fort Worth

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

The Last Word Bookstore, Authors Sanderia Faye (Mourner's Bench) and Joe Milazzo (Crepuscule W/ Nellie) will read from their respective novels, followed by a conversation and audience Q & A, 7:30PM

Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Katharine McGee will discuss and sign her debut novel for teens THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, Nicholson Baker discusses and signs SUBSTITUTE, 7PM

Murder By the Book, Alex Marwood will sign and discuss The Darkest Secret, 6:30PM

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

Midland
Centennial Library, As part of Project Literacy, three-time Caldecott winning author/illustrator David Wiesner signs his books, 4:30PM

Missouri City
Off the Vine Bistor, Off 6 Reading Series featuring Beverly Freeman and The Book of Whispers, 7PM [NEW READING SERIES]

San Antonio

The Korova, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

The Twig Book Shop, Jamie Tworkowski discusses and signs If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For, 6PM

Waco
Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Chad Conine signs The Republic of Football, 7PM

Wednesday, September 14:

Austin
Austin Books & Comics, artist NICK DERINGTON signs DOOM PATROL #1, 4PM

BookPeople, Editor & Journalist TERRY McDONELL speaking & signing The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers, 7PM

McCullough Theatre, Texas Performing Arts presents master storyteller Mike Daisey: "The Story of the Gun," 8PM

Commerce
A&M-Commerce Alumni Center, Silver Leos Writers Guild meeting featuring Mary Brooke Casad, author of the Bluebonnet the Armadillo series, 1PM

Dallas

Deep Vellum Books, Jessica Luther discusses and signs Unsportsmanlike Conduct, 6:30PM

Hotel Crescent Court, Joby Warrick discusses and signs Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, 6:30PM

SMU, Friends of the SMU Libraries presents Skip Hollandsworth discussing and signing The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer, 1PM

Fort Worth
TCU - Moudy North, The Live Oak Reading Series featuring Dr. Nathanael O�Reilly and Daniel Vial, 6:30PM

Houston

Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:15PM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Chris Barton will discuss and sign his newest picture book for children WHOOSH!, 5PM

Murder By the Book, Reed Farrel Coleman will sign and discuss Robert P. Parker's Debt To Pay, and Bruce DeSilva will sign and discuss The Dread Line, 6:30PM

Museum of Fine Arts, MFAH Lecture: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King + book signing, 6:30PM

Thursday, September 15:

Austin
BookPeople, WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS Presents: Straight Out of Science Fiction and Fantasy? with P.J. Hover, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Adam Soto, and Rebecca Schwarz, 7PM

BookPeople, Historian CATHERINE FLETCHER speaking & signing The Black Prince of Florence:The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici, 7PM

McCullough Theatre, Texas Performing Arts presents master storyteller Mike Daisey: "The Story of the Gun," 8PM

Monkeywrench Books, Dr. Kristen Hogan discusses and signs The Feminist Bookstore Movement, 6:30PM

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

Burnet
Herman Brown Free Library, Writers' League of Texas presents Texas Writes with authors Donna Johnson and Carol Dawson, 1PM

Conroe
Lone Star College-Montgomery, Montgomery County's Writers in Performance reading series presents Antonio Ruiz-Camacho discussing and signing Barefoot Dogs, 7PM

Dallas
Horchow Auditorium, Arts & Letters Live presents Ross King discussing and signing Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, 7:30PM

Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 4th annual Toast to Literacy fundraiser for LIFT (Literacy Instruction for Texas), 6:30PM

Sur La Table, Jacques Pepin will sign Poulet & Legumes, 1PM

The Wild Detectives, Richard J. Gonzales reads and signs Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas, 7:30PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Astronaut Chris Hadfield will discuss his career in space, and sign THE DARKEST DARK, his new picture book for kids, 7PM [TICKET REQUIRED]

Brazos Bookstore, Jennifer Grotz reads from and signs her poetry collection WINDOW LEFT OPEN, 7PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Deanne Wagner White reads and signs The Otter by the Sea, 5PM

Midland
Centennial Library, award winning authors and illustrators Don Tate, Cory Putman Oakes, and Christina Soontornvat sign their books, 4:30PM

San Antonio
B&N - San Pedro, The Philosophy of Childing: Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest book signing with Christopher Phillips, 7PM

Friday, September 16:

Austin
BookPeople, MITCHEL P. ROTH speaking & signing Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo, 7PM

Home of Susan Corbin, Poetry Masterclass with Nathan Brown, 6PM

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

Dallas
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Porsha O, 8PM

Serj Books, Phelesha Hamilton will sign Kid Brain, Read2Believe's Animated Teach Reading, 1PM

VFW Post 6796, Writer's Garret panel "Writing the Military Experience" with Leila Levinson, Rod Pannek, and Kathleen M. Rogers, 12PM

Houston