• 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

• Austin Writergrrls Book Fest, December 4

Sunday, December 4

Austin

• Malvern Books, Vision + Voice Anthology Release Party, 2PM
• The Writing Barn, Secret Origins: How to Write Comics and Graphic Novels with New York Times Bestselling Comics Author Paul Benjamin, 3:30PM

Dallas

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

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen Center, The Changelings book signing with Christina Soontornvat, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House, 5PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Katharine Folkes signs The Worst Five Months Ever, 2PM
• First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio, program with Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven, 3PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Linda Davis reads and signs A Christmas to Remember, 11AM

San Marcos

• Alkek Library, The Wittliff Collections presents Bill Wittliff discussing, reading, and signing The Devil’s Sinkhole, 2PM

Tyler

• B&N, The Myth of Santa’s Beard book signing with Sharon Thayer, 2PM

Monday, December 5

Austin

• BookPeople, Designer & Editor JESSICA ROMM PEREZ speaking & signing domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home, 7PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Chanan Tigay discusses and signs The Lost Book of Moses, 7PM

Fort Worth

• Texas Christian University Bookstore, Max Krochmal discusses and signs Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, 5PM

Lubbock

• Groves Branch Library, Jodi Thomas discusses and signs her Ransom Canyon series, 7PM

• B&N, Republic of Football book signing with Chad Conine, 6PM

Tuesday, December 6

Austin

• Austin History Center, Meet the Author Series: Mike Miller and Susan Rittereiser will discuss Historic Movie Houses of Austin, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, CAROL DAWSON & ROGER ALLEN POLSON speaking & signing Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department, 7PM
• BookWoman, Jessica Luther will discuss and sign Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape, 7PM
• Chez American Bistro, Author-Speaker Series featuring James Hornfischer discussing The Fleet at Flood Tide, 6:15PM
• The North Door, Own Egerton’s One Page Salon featuring Neal Pollack and his son Elijah Pollack, L.B. Deyo, Carolina Kuczynski Reid, Seth Meeks, Tom Booker, and Margaret Burns, 7:30PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 2008 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Recipient Dr. David Greenberg will discuss and sign Republic of Spin, 6PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, Historian Douglas Smith discusses and signs Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs, 6PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Café Brasil, Glass Mountain Volume 17 launch party and reading, 6PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: Carter Hydrick discusses and signs Critical Mass: Hiroshima Bomb and Nazi Uranium, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Melanie Jarrell discusses and signs Refinement of Manner, 4PM

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, December 7

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Cepeda Branch, Holiday Open House: Choctaw storyteller and author Tim Tingle tells Christmas stories, 5:30PM
• BookPeople, MICHAEL MOORCOCK speaking & signing GLORIANA Or, the Unfulfill’d Queen, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Ben Wright discusses Seeing Texas History, 12PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Marie Cariker will sell and sign her novel Emily: 1873, 1PM
• Malvern Books, release of the Fall 2016 edition of Austin Community College’s journal, The Rio Review, 7PM

Bryan

• Brazos Center, As part of the Texas Plant Protection Conference, Rod Bovey will discuss Mesquite: History, Growth, Biology, Uses and Management, TBA

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Michael Farris discusses and signs A Death in the Islands, 7:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:15PM
• B&N – River Oaks, J Scott Savage signs Gears of Revolution, 6PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Ramona Marek Discussion & Signing: Cats for the GENIUS, 7PM

Thursday, December 8

Austin

• BookWoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring Sasha West, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Amanda Downum, Marshall Ryan Maresca, and Yasser Bahjatt, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Burnet

• Herman Brown Free Library, Coffee Talks reading series: Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon read and sign The Paragraph Ranch, 1:30PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, First Hearings Series from Wordspace Dallas: Christopher Carmona reads an signs The Road to Llorona Park, 7:30PM

Houston

• Architecture Center Houston, Authors in Architecture: Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack present The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston’s Iconic Astrodome, 5:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The 41st Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium – Degas & the 20th Century presented by independent scholar Richard Kendall, author of Picasso Looks at Degas, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Bill Herrington discuses and signs Contraflow: From New Orleans to Houston, 5PM

The Woodands

• Black Walnut Cafe, Writers in Performance presents the 26th Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Celebration & Gathering of Poets, 7PM

Friday, December 9

Austin

• BookPeople, Poet JOE FRANCIS DOERR speaking & signing Tocayo: New and Selected Poems and Songs, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Mike Lala reads and signs Exit Theater, which won the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry (with Rebecca Liu), 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, poetry with Pandora’s Box: A Hard Candy Christmas featuring Darius Ajai Frasure, Gnadia Wolnisty, Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, Logen Cure, Joe Milazzo, MH Clay, Paul Koniecki, Christopher Soden, Gayle Reaves, Mark David Noble, and Dan Collins, 7:30PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs his children’s books, 4PM
• Discovery Green, Orbit Slam Series: youth workshop and poetry slam, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Matt Coyle will sign and discuss Dark Fissures, and Jonathan Woods will sign and discuss Kiss the Devil, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• National Ranching Heritage Center – Cogdell’s General Store, As part of “Candlelight at the Ranch,” Texas State Photographer Wyman Meinzer will sell and sign Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut, and Nathan Dahlstrom will sell and sign The Green Colt, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Poetry reading from the Yearlong Gemini Ink Poetry Workshop: “Across the Seasons: Cultivating Deep Listening to Poetic Voice,” 6PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Gordon Atkinson reads and signs Foy: On the Road to Lost, 6PM

Saturday, December 10

Abilene

• Texas Star Trading Company, Carlton Stowers signs On Texas Backroads: Stories Found Along the Way, 12PM

Amarillo

• Washington Avenue Christian Church, Jodi Thomas discusses and signs her Ransom Canyon series, 11:30AM

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Manchaca Branch, Holiday Open House, Book Sale, and Author Event with Marge Wood, 12PM
• Austin Public Library – Milwood Branch, First Annual Indie Author Day: panel discussions and meet and greet with local authors, 10AM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Lyman Mitchell will sell and sign his children’s book Pee Wee Saves Christmas, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Texas Poetry Calendar 2017 reading, 4PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Crowdfunding Your Book” with Jodi Egerton, 9AM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Robin Scofield: “St. Lucy’s Day,” 12:45PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Pat Jakobi and Nancy House sign Galveston Art League: A Century of Island Art, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs his children’s books,, 10AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack will discuss and sign THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD: THE LIFE OF HOUSTON’S ICONIC ASTRODOME, 1PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, all day
• Houston Public Library – Freed/Montrose Branch, second annual “Literacy in the Bag” Book Drive with iWRITE Literacy Organization (iWRITE), Texas Tamale Company, and the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, 10AM
• Murder By the Book, James Hannibal will sign and discuss his new thriller, The Lost Property Office, 4:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, MFAH Author’s Talk: Kathryn Calley Galitz will discuss and sign The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterpiece Paintings, 4PM
• Printing Museum, Workshop: constructing a hard cover accordion book, 12PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Molly and Gary Whitney read and sign Thistle Downe, and Gay Yellen reads and signs The Body Next Door, 3PM

Lubbock

• National Ranching Heritage Center – Cogdell’s General Store, As part of “Candlelight at the Ranch,” Texas State Photographer Wyman Meinzer will sell and sign Horses to Ride and Cattle to Cut, and Nathan Dahlstrom will sell and sign The Green Colt, 6:30PM

Midland

• Midland County Public Library, James Dennis will read from and sign his new poetry collection, Correspondence in D Minor, 2PM

Round Rock

• Half Price Books, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, all day

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Illustrator Carolyn Dee Flores discusses and signs A Surprise for Teresita, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Catherine Cooke discusses and signs Juan O’Gorman: A Confluence of Civilizations, 11AM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Barbara Lamar reads and signs True Families, 1PM

Webster

• Tradicao Brazilian Steakhouse, Annual Gulf Coast Poets luncheon featuring Gwendolyn Zepeda, Houston’s first Poet Laureate, 11:30AM [RESERVATIONS REQUIRED]

Sunday, December 11

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Yarborough Branch, Sisters in Crime: solve a murder with author Valerie Chandler, 2:15PM
• BookWoman, Robin Bradford launches her new book of poems, Confidence, 4PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Tangled Webs”, 4PM

Bryan

• Revolution Cafe & Bar, Poetry Slam, 8:30PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Nancy Churnin discusses and signs The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game, 2PM
• Half Price Books Mothership Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, George Arnold signs his children’s books, 10AM
• B&N – Westheimer, Constance Parks signs The Secret Place: The Garden of Love, 12PM
• Chapelwood United Methodist Church Bookstore, Holiday Open House and book signing with poet Mark Jodon, 10AM

Mansfield

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

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Faith Harper discusses and signs The Revolution Will Include Cookies: Recipes to de-Colonize Your Kitchen, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Barbara O’Connor reads and signs Virgin at the Speedway, 2PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Lynn Wilson signs At Ease – A Salute to Creative Entertaining, 1PM
• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Pam Franks signs Magic Gingerbread House, 4PM

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