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Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar April 22-28, 2019

Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of April 22-28, 2019 compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life by Texas Book Lover.

Special Events:
12th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 25-28

2nd Annual Lucky for Literacy Bubbles and Bingo Bash, Houston, April 26

Texas Institute of Letters Annual Meeting, McAllen, April 26-27

Second Well-Done Book Fair, Marfa, April 26-28

Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center presents Once Upon a Rhyme WonderWeek, Sugar Land, April 26-May 2

Austin Public Library presents Kids Block Party, April 27

Fred A. Tarpley Memorial Writers Conference, Commerce, April 27

Dallas Lit Hop 2019: Exposition Park Crawl, April 27

ATX Bookstore Crawl, April 27

Independent Bookstore Day, national, April 27

Spring LesFic Mini Festival, Austin, April 28

Exhibits:
30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy, San Antonio, December 3-April 25

Women of Flatbed: A Retrospective, Austin, January 17-April 28

Our People: The Life and Works of Author Angela Shelf Medearis, Austin, February 2-June 22

Worlds of W O N D E R: David Ezra Stein, Abilene, February 14-May 18

Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language at the Blanton, Austin, February 17-May 26

The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts, Dallas, March 1-June 15

Texas Writers: a traveling exhibit by Humanities Texas, San Antonio, April 3-30

Monday, April 22:
Arlington
UTA, Preston Fassel reading from his new horror novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, followed by a Q&A and book signing, 12PM

Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, Boxing = Life book signing with Adrian Clark, 7PM

The Sixth Floor Museum, 70 Years of Texas Television: An Evening with Bobbie Wygant, author of Talking to The Stars, 6PM

Garland
B&N - Firewheel, Sky in the Deep book signing with Adrienne Young, 6PM

Houston
Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston (MATCH), Kinder Institute for Urban Research presents Urban Reads: Mick Cornett, author of The Next American City: The Promise of Our Midsize Metros, 7PM

Rice U - Stude Concert Hall, Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, and Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, 7:30PM

UH Downtown, Official release of the 2019 Uproar magazine, 12PM

Richardson
UTD, "My Country and My People: China Since Tiananmen" with Rowena Xiaoqing He, author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China, 7PM

Tuesday, April 23:
Austin
BookPeople, author Ronna Welch & illustrator DIANA VASSAR speaking & signing The Nimble Cook, 7PM

Malvern Books, a reading from members of St. Edward’s University’s Literature, Writing and Rhetoric department featuring Alan Altimont, Timothy Braun, Amy Clements, Mary Helen Specht, Sasha West, Michael Yang, and Beth Eakman, 7PM

Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring freshFEMMEs, 7:15PM

Dallas
Checkered Past Winery, Dallas Poetry Slam presents DFW Unplugged 25th Anniversary Celebration Part 1, 8PM

Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, El Día de la Lengua: Literature and Music of Latin America, 6PM

Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Tayari Jones and An American Marriage, 7:30PM

Half Price Books Mothership, food blogger and recipe artist Christina Lane will discuss and sign her latest cookbook, Dinner Just for Two, 7PM

Heritage Auctions, Illustration Art Signature Auction, 5PM

Interabang Books, Siri Hustvedt reading and signing MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE, 7PM

The Wild Detectives, The Writer's Garret presents a Stone Soup poetry workshop, 7PM

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

Tarrant County College - Trinity River, a reading and signing of poet Michelle Hartman's latest books, Wanton Disarray, First Night, and Doors, 7PM

Houston
The Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting: "Submitting Short Work" with Holly Walrath, 6:30PM
Murder By the Book, Iona Whishaw will sign and discuss A Deceptive Devotion, 6:30PM

U Houston, School of Art presents a talk by Rainey Knudson, founder and publisher of Glasstire, 6:30PM

San Antonio
B&N - San Pedro, Wild Rescuers: Escape to the Mesa book signing with StacyPlays, 7PM

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

Sugar Land
Sugar Land Branch Library, Award-winning historical novelist Ann Weisgarber reading and signing her newest book, The Glovemaker, 7PM

Tomball
Lone Star College, celebrate the release of the 2018-2019 inkling magazine, 2PM

Wednesday, April 24:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Deborah Burns signing Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir, 7PM

BookPeople, BECKY CROUCH PATTERSON speaking & signing Luckenbach Texas: The Center of the Universe, 7PM

Malvern Books, acclaimed Afro-Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão and translator Alexis Levitin present their third collaboration, Palávora, 7PM

The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Kiss & Tell, 8PM

Terrazas Branch Library, Aural Literature April Reading, 7:30PM

Dallas
Interabang Books, Ari Seth Cohen discusses and signs Advanced Style, 7PM

Temple Emanu-El, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts David Brooks, who will discuss and sign The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, 7:30PM

Denton
UNT Student Union, North Texas Review release party, 6PM

Fort Worth
B&N - Hulen, Brooks Harrington signing No Mercy, No Justice, 6:30PM

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, Artist Books: A Conversation with Rare Book Librarian Julie Christenson, 5:30PM

Houston
Asia Society Texas Center, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts a breakfast with Dr. Michael Mandelbaum, author of The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, 8AM

Avant Garden, Write About Now: LatinX Mic featuring Gigi Bella, 7:30PM

Brazos Bookstore, Kathi Appelt reading and signing ANGEL THIEVES, 7PM

Hyatt Regency Downtown, The Houston Library Foundation proudly presents the Beyond the Page Luncheon with Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, 12PM

Rubinstein Jewish Community Center, Author Talk with Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 7:30PM

Murder By the Book, Jeffrey Siger will sign and discuss The Mykonos Mob, 6:30PM

U Houston, Poetry & Prose presents a reading by Glass Mountain contributors, 5:30PM

Richardson
UTD, Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology Lecture Series: The Promise and the Peril of Artificial Intelligence with Ed Finn, author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing, 7:30PM

Thursday, April 25:
Austin
Austin History Center, Andrew M. Busch, PhD, discussing his new book, City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth Century Austin, Texas, 6:30PM

Malvern Books, The Michener Center for Writers presents an evening with acclaimed poet Cathy Park Hong, 7PM

The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Kiss & Tell, 8PM

Dallas
Interabang Books, Writers’ League of Texas presents Jennifer DuBois ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING: THE SPECTATORS, 7PM

The Wild Detectives, Story Collider: Dallas launch, 7PM

El Paso
B-17 Bombers Oyster Pub, Barbed Wire Open Mic, 8PM

Fort Worth
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, Spring 2019 Issue Release Party of eleven40seven, 5:30PM

Houston
Brasil Houston, Houston VIP Slam: Science & Sonnets, 6:30PM

Brazos Bookstore, Nell Freudenberger reading and signing LOST AND WANTED, 7PM

Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Ryan Black, Esther Lin, and Giuseppe Taurino, 8:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Ray Viator signing Houston, Space City USA, 5PM

Spring Branch Memorial Library, Celebrate El día de los niños / El día de los libros with author Kathleen Contreras as she reads from her award-winning bilingual picture book, Harvesting Friends / Cosechando amigos, 11AM

Irving
South Irving Library, El dia de los ninos / El dia de los libros, 4PM

La Porte
La Porte Public Library, Celebrate El día de los niños / El día de los libros with author Kathleen Contreras as she reads from her award-winning bilingual picture book, Harvesting Friends / Cosechando amigos, 2PM

Richardson
UTD, A Reading and Conversation with Brazilian Poet Salgado Maranho and his translator Alexis Levitin, 7PM

Sulphur Springs
The Bookworm Box, Cathlin Shahriary Live Author Takeover!, 7PM

Friday, April 26:
Arlington
UTA - Central Library, Friends of the UTA Libraries presents Dave Lieber, author of AMON! The Ultimate Texan, 7:30PM

Austin
BookPeople, CATHY CHAPATY speaking & signing Searching for Grasshopper, 7PM

Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Metaphorically Challenged Poetry Remix Open Mic, 7:15PM

Malvern Books, I Scream Social Reading & Open Mic, 7PM

The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Kiss & Tell, 8PM

Renaissance Hotel, BookSpring presents Storybook Heroes Luncheon, 12PM

UT - Perry-Castañeda Library, an Evening of Indigenous Storytelling: Abiyala & Turtle Island, 5PM

Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Pegasus Reading Series featuring Lauren Belmore, Machele Johnson, Kat Moore, and Morgan Smith, 7PM

Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam: 25th Anniversary Showcase, 8PM

Interabang Books, Anna Quindlen discussing and signing NANAVILLE: ADVENTURES IN GRANDPARENTING, 7:30PM

Houston 
Brazos Bookstore, Launch Event: Music & Literature No. 9 featuring Swiss author Peter Bichsel and Canadian poet Sylvia Legris, 6PM

Irving
Dupree Theater, NEA Big Read Keynote Presentation: An evening with New Yorker cartoonist and author Roz Chast, 5:30PM

San Antonio
JW Marriott Hill Country Resort, Seamus Mullen, award-winning New York chef, cookbook author, and health and wellness expert, will share his own personal healing journey during Viva Fresh Expo’s Keynote Luncheon, 11:30AM

Our Lady of the Lake, Fajardo-Anstine gives a reading from her forthcoming book, Sabrina & Corina, followed by a discussion, Q&A, and book signing, 6:30PM

UTSA, The Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet Evie Shockley, 6PM

Southlake
B&N, Shelly Brown signing Mustaches for Maddie and Squint, 6PM

Saturday, April 27:
Austin
BookPeople, story time with local author Lori Samocha and illustrator Lauri Johnston, sharing their book, W Is for Weird: An Austin Alphabet, 10:30AM

Malvern Books, the launch of E.C. Belli’s Objects of Hunger, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, featuring readings from E.C. Belli, Jay Deshpande, Marina Blitshteyn, and Diana Khoi Nguyen, 7PM

Boerne
Patrick Heath Public Library, The Art of Writing Workshops: poetry & prose with D. Ellis Phelps, 1PM

Dallas
Interabang Books, Local authors Dan Peeler and Charlie Rose reading and signing their Dragon books + marionettes and crafts, 11AM

Denton
UNT, American Literary Review Graduate Student Reading Series, 6PM

Edinburg
Museum of South Texas History, Preservation Week: Pass the Pages will provide your old books with new life, 10AM

El Paso
El Paso Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "Bebop Impressionism: Breathing Between the Lines" with Richie David Marrufo, 12:45PM

Gufo di Milano, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series presents a Songwriter and Poetry Showcase Open Mic, 7PM

San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso Public Library hosts Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros, 10AM

Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Tales From the Hood Spoken Word Event, 7PM

Galveston
Galveston Bookshop, Clay Coppedge signing Texas Singularities, 1PM

Houston
B&N - River Oaks, James Glassman signing the Houstorian Calendar: Today in Houston History, 12PM

B&N - River Oaks, Jackie Anders Phoenix signing Field of Mars, 2PM

Blue Willow Bookshop, Ray Viator will discuss and sign his book HOUSTON: SPACE CITY USA, 1PM

Brazos Bookstore, Barbara Epler, president and publisher of New Directions Publishing, and translator Philip Boehm discussing New Directions, translation, and Boehm's two newest books for NDP, MALINA and THE FOX AND DR SHIMAMURA, 7PM

Carnegie Branch Library, International Poetry Celebration, 12PM

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

Murder By the Book, Pamela Fagan Hutchins will sign and discuss Sick Puppy, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, S.C. Perkins signing Murder Once Removed, 3PM

Stanaker Branch Library, celebrating El Dia de los Niños, 1:30PM

Writespace, Workshop: "Ten Easy Steps to Writing Timely and Provocative Stories" with Marian Szczepanski, 9:30AM

Irving
East Irving Library, Día de los Niños, Día de los Libros, 2:30PM

Lubbock
B&N, Cowboy book signing with Bob Holt, 2PM

New Braunfels
The Book Haus, One year Anniversary and Independent Bookstore Day, 10AM

Pflugerville
Pflugerville Public Library, Annual poetry reading from entrants in the poetry month contest and members of the Pflugerville Poetry Society, 2PM

Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, Meet & Greet with author Thomas Schulte, 3PM

San Antonio
Gemini Ink, Workshop: "Writing Place: Homelands in Literature" with Kali Fajardo-Anstine, 10AM

Love Shack Boutique, BookishAF: Pop-Up Book Fair, 3PM

San Marcos
Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, Barrio Writers Youth Zine-Making Workshop, 12PM

Sunday, April 28:
Austin
BookWoman, Brooke Axtell reading and signing Beautiful Justice, 4PM

Dallas
B&N - Preston/Royal, Dr. Michael F. Weisberg, M.D. signs In the End and The Hospitalist, 2PM

Deep Vellum Books, Michelle Tea presents Astro Baby, 6PM

Half Price Books Mother Ship, fantasy thriller author Emma Christopher will sell and sign Project Starfall, and self-help author Amy Susanna Copeland will sell and sign Love & The Art of Saying No: A Journey Out of Co-Dependence, People-Pleasing, & Over-Commitment, 1PM

Houston
River Oaks Bookstore, Oh Austen the Hippo children’s reading hour & author signing with April Spotsville, 2PM

Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas: "How to Find Your Plot: A Storytelling Seminar" with J.R. Forasteros, 3PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, poet John Poch signing Texases, 12PM



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