• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8
• Amazing Houston Comic Con, September 4 – 6
• Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 9 – 12
• Texas Word Wrangler Festival, Giddings, September 11
• Alamo City Comic Con, San Antonio, September 11 – 13
• DFW Literary Soulfest, Fort Worth, September 11 – 13
• National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Lubbock, September 11 – 13
• David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25

Sunday, Sept. 6

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, the inaugural DALLAS ZINE PARTY!, 1PM

Monday, Sept. 7

• It’s Labor Day, so no bookish types are laboring (at least not in public). Y’all go read Working by Studs Terkel. Happy Labor Day!

Tuesday, Sept. 8

Austin

• BookPeople, Taking the Heat – Women Chefs Panel: featuring DEBORAH HARRIS & PATTI GIUFFRE speaking & signing Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen, with chef panelists Jennifer Costello – The Bonneville, Erica Beneke – Max’s Wine Dive, Jodi Eliott – Bribery Bakery, and Erica Waksmunski – Red Star Southern, moderated by Austin American-Statesman Food Editor ADDIE BROYLES, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Story Department presents MEET ME AT THE BIKE RACKS with storytellers Stephanie Noll, Carol Ramsey, and Katherine Moore, 7:30PM

• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• River Oaks Bookstore, Mark Pople reads and signs Rogers Park, 5PM
• University of Houston – Downtown, reading by US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY, 5:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM

Wednesday, Sept. 9

Austin

• BookPeoople, Debut Novelist MELISSA DECARLO speaking & signing The Art of Crash Landing, 7PM
• BookWoman, Georgia Huston discusses and signs Pain: An Owner’s Manual, 7PM

Dallas

• Jewish Community Center of Dallas, Dr. Michael Weisberg, author of THE HOSPITALIST, will conduct a book discussion, 7PM

Granbury

• Langdon Center, Postcards from Texas: a celebration of Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song moderated by Donna Walker-Nixon, Cassy Burleson, Rachel Crawford,and Anne McCrady, 7PM

Houston

• Houston Public Library – Central, US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY launches The Favorite Poem Project, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Reed Farrel Coleman will sign and discuss Robert B. Parker’s The Devil Wins, 6:30PM

Marfa

• Marfa Book Company, Ray Caballero, former mayor of El Paso, will read from Lynching Pascual Orozco, 6PM

San Antonio

• Viva! Bookstore, literary evening with Voices de la Luna, 6PM

Thursday, Sept. 10

Austin

• AGE of Central Texas, Austin Poetry Caravan Reading, 2:30PM
• Benson Latin American Collection – UT, Exhibition Opening – Wood, Paper, String: The Art and History of Brazilian Cordel Literature, 5PM
• BookPeople, Critically Acclaimed Artist MARK MENJIVAR speaking & signing The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition, 7PM
• The Long Center, an evening with author Frank Warren, the founder of The PostSecret Project, 7:30PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Maria Elena Sandovici & Patrice Sarath, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Melissa DeCarlo reads and signs THE ART OF CRASH LANDING, 7PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Patricia Polacco will share her new picture book for children, TUCKY JO AND LITTLE HEART, 5PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, The Red Handkerchief: A Holocaust Memoir discussion and signing with Yvonne Ward-Hughes and Maria Spronk-Hughes, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, William S. Kirby will sign and discuss Vienna, 6:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY talk and launch of ARTlines2 Anthology: Art Becomes Poetry, followed by a signing, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, The DoSeum annual Outside the Lunchbox Luncheon: author Amanda Ripley presents The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got that Way, 12PM
• Viva! Bookstore, Bruce Spohn reads and signs Lovers by the Lake: More Than a Romance, 11AM

San Marcos

• Wittliff Collections, reading by Daniel Orozco, 3:30PM

Friday, Sept. 11

Austin

• BookPeople, the New Writers Project Presents PEN/Faulkner Finalist T. GERONIMO JOHNSON speaking & signing Welcome to Braggsville, 7PM
• Malvern Books, On Rats, Bombs, and Volcanoes: The Power of Emily Dickinson’s Subversions with author and poet Wendy Barker, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Café Libro Open Mic featuring Jasmine Bell, 7PM
• UT University Co-OP, Bower Yousse and Thomas Cryan sign Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football, 5PM
• Westwood Country Club, Texas Book Festival Literary Lunch with Steven Weinberg, author of To Explain the World: The Discover of Modern Science, 11:15AM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Poets on X+ featuring Heather Rose Hatch, 8PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading by Daniel Orozco, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Country Club, Lewis Fisher presents American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, 12PM
• The Southwest School of Art, Khadijah Queen poetry reading and art exhibit, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Marion Jacobson discusses and signs Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, 6PM

Webster

• B&N, George Arnold signing Fire and Ice – Beyond Alchemy, 6PM

Saturday, Sept. 12

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, Brad Cotton will sell and sign Thinking 101: Fundamentals of a Successful Mindset, 4PM

Amarillo

• Cavender’s Boot City, Jodi Thomas will sell and sign Ransom Canyon, 12PM

Austin

• Austin Book Arts Center, Open House to celebrate the inaugural season, 10AM
• Legacy Oaks, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 3PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Tyler Gobble & Ben Kopel, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, “Never Let Me Go: How to Grab the Attention of Readers, Editors, and Agents with Your Opening Pages” with Michael Noll, 9AM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Cindy Dees will discuss and sign The Sleeping King, 3PM
• LuminArte Gallery, Authorlink Sociable Lecture Series with Sarah Bird, Bryan Mealer, and Hugh Aynesworth, 3PM
• The Wild Detectives, Bonehouse poetry reading, 3PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Valentin Sandoval workshop: Visual/Lyrical Confluence (a Tumblewords Project), 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Library Cafe, S.L.A.M. The Spoken Language Arts Movement, 7:30PM

Galveston

• The Witchery, author Ellen Dugan meet & greet, classes and book signing, 11AM

Houston

• Bark Plaza Pet Hotel, Annie England Noblin will sign sit! stay! speak!, 11AM
• Kaboom Books, DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE exhibition by artist and book designer Russell Etchen, 7PM
• Katy Budge Books, PF Karlin (aka local authors Linda Fagala and Karen Pugh) reads and signs Destiny Reborn, 1PM
• M.D. Anderson Library, Debra Winegarten presents Oveta Culp Hobby, 2:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Kay Finch will sign and discuss Black Cat Crossing, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Katherine O’Sullivan reads and signs Rose-Colored Glasses: A Memoir, 3PM
• Writespace, Intro to Novel Writing Workshop with author Chris Rogers, 9:30AM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Book Signing With Author Janice Jones: In Her Blood, 1PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Adult Coloring Event and signing with Artist Cher Kaufmann, 2PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, Melissa Hood signs Memoirs of an ADHD Mind, 2PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Shina James discusses and signs Like a Dream, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, poets Russell Evatt and Jaime Brunton read from and sign The Future is a Faint Song, 6PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Rebecca Ratliff signing Around the World in 80 Men, 3PM

Spring

• Harris County Public Library – Barbara Bush Branch, Saadia Faruqi Author Talk and Book Signing: Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage from Pakistan, 2PM

Tyler

• B&N, Melissa DeCarlo signs The Art of Crash Landing, 2PM

• Rufi’s Cocina, Nuestra Voces open mic featuring poet & publisher, Sarah Frances Moran, 7PM

Sunday, Sept. 13

Arlington

Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, Isaac Rowewill sell and sign I Love Anger, 1PM

Austin

• Bookpeople, DREW DAYWALT speaking & signing The Day the Crayons Came Home, 2PM
• BookWoman, book launch for Paige Schilt’s QUEER ROCK LOVE: A Family Memoir, 5:30PM
• Homer Rainey Hall, Conspirare presents The Poet Sings: Emily Dickinson, 4PM
• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Fani Papageorgiou, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Kurt Heinzelman, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Spark of Madness”, 3PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live series: R.L. Stine and Marc Brown present The Little Shop of Monsters, 4PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Robin Preiss Glasser will share her new FANCY NANCY book, NANCY CLANCY: SOCCER MANIA, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Harry Huniscker will sign and discuss The Grid and Mark Pryor will sign and discuss Hollow Man, 2PM

Irving

• Hackberry Creek Country Club, Jane Austen Society of North Texas presents author and Professor Patricia Michaelson discussing “Speaking Volumes: Women and Words in the Novels of Jane Austen,” 2PM

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