• Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22
• The Alchemy of Mind and Spirit: Intersections of Science and Poetry, Austin, September 26-January 13

Special Events

• 11th Annual Buns and Roses Romance Tea for Literacy, Richardson, October 23
• 15th Annual Celebration of Reading with the Barbara Bush Foundation, Dallas, October 24
• National Black Book Festival, Houston, October 27-29
• Alamo City Comic Con, San Antonio, October 28-30
• Halloween ComicFest 2016, Houston, October 29
• Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston, October 29-November 13

Sunday, October 23

Austin

• Austin Books & Comics, Andy Hirsch to sign his new graphic novel Varmints, a middle-grade Western, 1PM
• BookPeople, DONNA JANELL BOWMAN speaking & signing Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Ute Carson Book Launch of Save the Last Kiss, 3PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: Page-Turning, Stomach-Churning: Building Suspense in Your Thriller with Amy Gentry, 1PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Dr. Neil Spector signs Gone in a Heartbeat A Physician’s Search for True Healing, 2PM
• Half Price Books Mothership Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors Live! presents Jon Meacham and Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, 7PM

Houston

• Becker’s Books, Leon Hale signs One Man’s Christmas, 3PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Holding Up the Universe book signing with Jennifer Niven, 2PM

Monday, October 24

Austin

• BookPeople, LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON speaking & signing Ashes: Seeds of America, 6PM
• BookWoman, co-editior China Martens and contributor Ariel Gore discuss and sign Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, 7PM

Dallas

• Hotel Crescent Court, DFW World Affairs Council: Parag Khanna discusses and signs Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Young adult authors Kathleen Glasgow, Jennifer Niven, Teresa Toten and Brenna Yovanoff will appear to discuss their books and anything else, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Jonathan Rabb reads and signs AMONG THE LIVING, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Reavis Wortham will sign and discuss Unraveled, 6:30PM
• Lewisville
• B&N – Vista Ridge, annual Wilson Elementary Spooky Poetry Slam!, 6PM

Tuesday, October 25

Austin

• Austin History Center, A UT Tower shooting survivor, historians, and producers from “Texas Standard” will discuss the impact of the Out of the Blue oral history project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the UT Tower shooting, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, Award Winning Novelist JOHN PIPKIN speaking & signing The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, 7PM
• BookWoman, Heather Ash Amara discusses and signs The Warrior Goddess Way: Clarity, Creativity, and Inner Power for Women, 7PM
• The Gallery at Chez Zee American Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series featuring Sarah Bird, 6:15
• Malvern Books, Malvern’s Multi-Verse reading series with ire’ne lara silva & Alan Altimont, hosted by poet Francois Pointeau, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, China Martens reads and signs Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Cara’s Kindness book signing with Kristi Yamaguchi, 7PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, SOUP’S ON: STONE SOUP SHOWCASE with the Writer’s Garret and Jolee Davis, 7PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Laurie Halse Anderson will discuss and sign her new novel ASHES, the conclusion to the Seeds of America trilogy, 5PM
• Bohemeo’s, Glass Mountain reading with fiction writer Rachel Lee, and poets April Lim and Luisa Muradyan Tannahill, 7PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: Scott Solomon discusses Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Rob Hart will sign and discuss South Village, 6:30PM

Pasadena

• San Jacinto College, Jan Jarboe Russell discusses and signs The Train to Crystal City, 10AM

Richardson

• Richardson Public Library, Brown Bag Book Series: Rusty Williams discusses and signs Red River Bridge War: Texas-Oklahoma Boarder Battle, 11:30AM

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, October 26

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Old Quarry, Something Wicked: Tales of Horror Told by Local Authors featuring Owen Egerton, Felix Morgan and AJ Reyes, 7PM
• BookPeople, JACQUELINE KELLY speaking & signing Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet, 6PM
• UT Austin, US Tour of Lina Meruane, author of Seeing Red, ?

Dallas

• Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, An Evening with Author Willard Spiegelman, author of Senior Moments, 6PM
• Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live presents Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, and Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Drema Hall Berkheimer discusses and signs Running on Red Dog Road and Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood, 7:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Ashes book signing with Laurie Halse Anderson, 6PM
• Stonebriar Country Club, DFW World Affairs Council breakfast: Ronald White discusses and signs American Ulysses: A Life of U.S. Grant, 7:30AM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:15PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Brian Stolarz discusses and signs GRACE AND JUSTICE ON DEATH ROW, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Kyle Mills will sign and discuss Order to Kill, 6:30PM

Kingsville

• Texas A&M, Noemi Martinez reads and signs Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, ?

San Antonio

• Trinity University – William Knox Holt Center, environmental historian Char Miller discusses and signs Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream, with Bob Rivard of The Rivard Report, 6PM
• Witte Museum, Wagner Series: author Mary O. Parker and photographer Jeff Parker discuss and sign Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, 6:30PM

Thursday, October 27

Austin

• BookPeople, JOLIE & AMIE SIKES speaking & signing Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wonder & Wander, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Bryce Milligan reads from and signs his new poetry collection, Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers, with W. Joe Hoppe, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Testify storytellers present “Villains,” 7:30PM
• UT Austin, US Tour of Lina Meruane, author of Seeing Red, ?

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, John Pipkin reads and signs The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, 7:30PM

Edinburg

• UT Rio Grande Valley, Noemi Martinez reads and signs Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, ?

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, local author Marta Elva signs American Tumbleweeds, 5PM

Fort Worth

• The Last Word Bookstore, launch of Road Kill, the first anthology of Texas horror stories by a variety of Texas storytellers, 6PM

Fulton

• Paws & Taws Convention Center, Tamara Saviano discusses and signs Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Jay Asher will discuss and sign his new novel for teens, WHAT LIGHT, 7PM
• Box 13 ArtSpace, Multimedia artist Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola presents Eastext: Transforming The East End Into A Moving Canvas For Poetry Projections, 6:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Beverly Lowry discusses and signs WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Ed Lin will sign and discuss Incensed, 6:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Glassell School Core Program Lecture: Wendy Vogel, author of index A to Z: art, design, fashion, film and music in the indie era, 7PM
• Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Alexandra Naumann, Lupe Mendez & Carrie Fountain, 8:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Kimberley Morris reads and signs Take Me to Your Weeder (How to Be an Earthling #3), 5PM

San Antonio

• McNay Art Museum, Craig Bunch discusses and signs The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists- #18 Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series, 6PM

San Marcos

• Texas State University’s Alkek Library, Wittliff Collections reading and signing with Mary Ruefle, 3:30PM

Friday, October 28

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Author JAY ASHER speaking & signing What Light, 7PM
• Malvern Books, I Scream Social reading series featuring Darri Farr and Sam Miller, 7PM
• UT Austin, US Tour of Lina Meruane, author of Seeing Red, ?

Brownsville

• UT Rio Grande Valley, Noemi Martinez reads and signs Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, 2PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Joe Giron and Rex Brown to sign A Vulgar Display of Pantera, 7PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA Adventures in Egypt, 4PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, P.C. Cast will discuss and sign her new book, MOON CHOSEN, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Jessica W. Luther discusses and signs UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, 7PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, KAP Literary Center reading and signing with Mary Ruefle, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Fed & Fit: A 28 Day Food & Fitness Plan to Jumpstart Your Life with Over 175 Squeaky-Clean Paleo Recipes book signing with Cassy Joy Garcia, 7PM
• The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Poet Laureate of Texas and San Antonio native Laurie Ann Guerrero hosts Bards & Brew, 7:30PM
• Trinity University – Holt Center, Gemini Ink Reading: Brian Turner, Iraqi war veteran and award-winning poet & memoirist, 7PM

Saturday, October 29

Athens

• Henderson County Clint W. Murchison Memorial Library, F.C. Pearce will discuss and sign Listen for the Mourning Dove, 10AM

Austin

• BookPeople, BARBARA MORGAN & MAYA PEREZ of the Austin Film Festival speaking & signing On Story—Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Joseph Somoza reads from and signs his new poetry collection, As Far As I Know, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop “Place in Fiction: The Secret Trapdoor to Storytelling” with Brittani Sonnenberg, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, The Eternal Party: Understanding My Dad, Larry Hagman, the TV Star America Loved to Hate book signing with Kristina Hagman, 3PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Kristen Ohlenforst signs Moose the Worry Mutt Goes to Doggie Daycare, 1PM
• Deep Vellum Books, The SMU Russian Studies Department Presents A Panel Discussion: Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Russia: Translation, History, and Literature featuring distinguished guest Rosamund Bartlett, a prominent English writer, scholar and translator, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Bonehouse Poetry Reading, 6PM
• The Writer’s Garret, Partner Zines workshop with Lisa Huffaker, 10AM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Raquel Mejía: Naked Catrina-Humor Me!, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• 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, 4PM

Friendswood

• Friendswood Public Library, David E. Cowen reads and signs his poetry collection, The Seven Yards of Sorrow, 7PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA Adventures in Egypt, 10AM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Ginger Hurta signs GOOD MORNING, GOD!, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems reading, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Kathleen Shanahan Maca will sign and discuss Ghosts of Galveston, 1PM
• Solidarity House, Noemi Martinez reads and signs Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, 2PM
• Writespace, workshop: Technical Writing as a Career Path for the Creative Writer with Andreana Binder, 9:30AM
• Writespace, workshop: Jumpstart Your Writing: Halloween Style with Layla Al-Bedawi, 2PM
• Writespace, Frightspace Terrifying Tales Contest and open mic – costumes encouraged!, 7:30PM

Hunstville

• Texas Prison Museum, Dr. Mitchel Roth discusses and signs Convict Cowboys: The Untold Story of the Texas Prison Rodeo, 11AM

Marble Falls

• Falls on the Colorado Museum, Historian Melvin C. Johnson discusses and signs Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858, 10AM

McAllen

• B&N – Northcross, David Bowles signs Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley, 1PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Dallas Cowboys: Legends of America’s Team book signing with Jim Reeves, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, I Am Alpha and Omega book signing with Jesse Brown Jr., 1PM
• B&N – Northwoods, Marta Elva signs American Tumbleweeds, 1PM
• Gemini Ink, Seminar: The Soldier’s Rucksack: A Workshop with Acclaimed Author and War Veteran, Brian Turner, 10AM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Horror Authors: Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors book signing with the authors David Robledo, Carmen Gray, and Bret McCormick, 1PM

• B&N, local author Elisabeth Stanley signs Mark of the Cabits, 3PM

Sunday, October 30

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Authors discussion and book signing: AMIE KAUFMAN & JAY KRISTOFF – Gemina, KIERSTEN WHITE – And I Darken, JESSICA CLUESS – A Shadow Bright and Burning, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Reading & Book Signing, 1PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic: Halloween Edition, 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA Adventures in Egypt, 10AM

Houston

• Cactus Music, Tamara Saviano discusses and signs Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, with Richard Dobson, John Egan, and Sergio Trevino, 4PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, David Bowles signs Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley, 3PM

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