Austin

• BookWoman, Anne Key reading from her book, Burlesque, Yoga, Sex and Love: A Memoir of Life Under the Albuquerque Sun, + poetry readings, 3PM

Houston

• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Tale-ing through Time: Jewish Storytelling in “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” with storyteller Rabbi Dan Gordon, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Megan Padalecki reading and signing Big Mo, 11AM

Stonewall

• Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, Kenneth Hafertepe signs A Guide to the Historic Buildings of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County, 5PM

Sugar Land

Half Price Books, local musician, author and inspirational speaker Undrai Fizer will sell and sign The Excuse-less Life: 34 Inner-Laws for Living Above Distraction, 12PM

Monday, Dec. 21

Austin

• Brave New Books, Holiday Party: potluck and white elephant gift exchange, 7PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Year End Celebration potluck, 7PM

Tuesday, Dec. 22

Austin

• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Fort Worth

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

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, Dec. 23

Houston

• AvantGarden, Write About Now weekly poetry reading, 7:30PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, Frank Brewster III reads and signs Declaraciones de una Vida/Declarations of a Life, PM

Thursday, Dec. 24  It’s Christmas Eve — go home and read Dickens’s A Christmas Carol or Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Friday, Dec. 25

Merry Christmas, y’all! Lone Star Literary Life hopes everyone is home with their family and friends, opening all of the those books you asked Santa for.

Saturday, Dec. 26

Austin

• Blanton Museum of Art, The Crusader Bible: Gothic Masterpiece, 12:30PM & 3PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa Celebration

Sunday, Dec. 27

Austin

• BookWoman, Book Signing & Wine Event with Stella Mowen, author of Until the Beat Stops, 4PM
• Malvern Books, J. Scott Brownlee launches his first full-length poetry collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, joined by poets John Fry and Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, 2PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa Celebration

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