Special Events

Sunday, March 29

Austin

  • B&N Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing with Nery Roman: The Inability to See the Other Side of Reality!, 2PM

Houston

  • B&N Westheimer, Tarif Youssef-Agha Signing A Journey Around the Arab-Spring Revolutions The Quest for Freedom, Dignity and Democracy, 1PM

Monday, March 30

Austin

  • BookPeople, Chris Cander speaking & signing Whisper Hollow, 7PM
  • Monkeywrench Books, Former Austinite Andrew Maraniss discusses Strong Inside: Sports and Race in the South, 6PM

Dallas

  • The Wild Detectives, Grub Street Grackle release party, 7:30PM

Houston

  • B&N River Oaks, Another Day with Her: Lost in Diagnosis, Understanding Bipolar Disorder, 6:30PM
  • Brazos Bookstore, Megan Kruse – Call Me Home, 7PM

Tuesday, March 31

Austin

  • BookPeople, Artist, Author, & Musician Alan Schaefer & Joe Nick Patoski speaking & signing Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, 7PM
  • Harry Ransom Center, novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje converses with writer Geoff Dyer in a Harry Ransom Lecture, 7PM
  • Malvern Books, An Evening with David Abel & David Longoria, 7PM
  • Resistencia Bookstore, Poets on the Road, 7PM
  • Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

  • Dallas Public Library – Skillman Southwestern Branch, Doug J. Swanson will read and discuss his latest book, Blood Aces, 6PM

Frisco

  • Frisco Heritage Center, Meet the Author—Reavis Z. Wortham, 7PM

Houston

  • Brazos Bookstore, LaShonda Katrice Barnett – JAM ON THE VINE, 7PM
  • Katy Budget Books, Gena Showalter is offering signed copies of her next book, The Closer You Come, exclusively through Katy Budget Books

San Antonio

  • B&N La Cantera, Chad Morris presents The Impossible Race, 7PM
  • The Twig Book Shop, Kathi Appelt celebrating her two newest books: When Otis Courted Mama and Counting Crows, 3:30PM

Tyler

  • University of Texas at Tyler – R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center, Rod Canion presents his new book, Open: How Compaq Ended IBM’s PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing followed by book signing and reception, 7:30PM

Wednesday, April 1

Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington – Planetarium, Jeffrey Bennett presents What is Relativity?, 7:30PM

Austin

  • BookPeople, Neurobiologist & Author David J. Linden speaking & signing Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind, 7PM
  • BookWoman, Red Hen Press Reading: Kate Gale, Peggy Shumaker, and Ellen Meeropol, 7PM

Dallas

  • Kiwi Club, Carolyn Kneese presents Bragging Rights: The Dallas-Houston Rivalry, 12PM
  • Tower Club, Carolyn Kneese presents Bragging Rights: The Dallas-Houston Rivalry, 6:30PM

Houston

  • Brazos Bookstore, Noel Crook – Salt Moon, 7PM

Thursday, April 2

Austin

  • Benson Latin American Collection, ¡A Viva Voz! Migraciones: An Evening of Latin@ Poetry and Spoken Word, 7PM
  • BookPeople, LaShonda Katrice Barnett speaking & signing Jam On The Vine, 7PM
  • Resistencia Bookstore, Traces of Soul & Spirit: a History of Latina/o Writing, 7PM
  • University of Texas, Avaya Auditorium, Michener Writing Series Spring Reading Series featuring Fiona McFarlane & Michael McGriff, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

  • Fort Worth Public Library – Central Branch, Robert Haddock from Random House will buzz about forthcoming books and give readers the inside scoop on spring and summer titles, 6:30PM

Houston

  • B&N Town & Country, Best Selling Author Chad Morris presents The Impossible Race, 5:30PM
  • Blue Willow Bookshop, Katherine Center will discuss and sign her newest novel, HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS, 7PM
  • Fifth Ward Multi-Service Center, Space City Slam: Jupiter Preliminary, 6PM
  • Murder by the Book, , 6:30PM
  • Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building, MFAH Lecture & Book Signing – BIG Little House: Small Houses Designed presented by architect and author Donna Kacmar, 7PM

San Marcos

  • Wittliff Collections, reading with Kim Addonizio, 3:30PM

Friday, April 3

Austin

  • B&N – Arboretum, join Megan Kruse for a reading from her debut novel, “Call Me Home,” with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert, along with event moderator Vincent Scarpa, managing editor of The Austin Review, 7PM

Houston

  • Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Robin Davidson, 8:30PM
  • Murder by the Book, Peter V. Brett will sign and discuss the newest book in the Demon Cycle, The Skull Throne, 6:30PM
  • Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading with Kim Addonizio, 7:30PM

Saturday, April 4

Austin

  • BookPeople, Paige Britt speaking & signing The Lost Track of Time, 4PM
  • Malvern Books, A Speculative Evening with Eugene Fischer, Janalyn Guo & Jessica Reisman, 7PM

Dallas

B&N – Preston/Royal, Local Author Tanner McElroy Signs War of Wings, 2PM

El Paso

  • B&N Fountains at Farah, Cynthia Bond: Ruby, 2PM
  • B&N Sunland Park, Tom Brown: Spiritual Gifts for Spiritual Warfare, 1PM

Houston

  • B&N Westheimer, Robert Johnston Signing Sanctification, 1PM
  • Blue Willow Bookshop, Meredith Moore will discuss and sign her novel for young adults, I Am Her Revenge, 2PM
  • Murder by the Book, M.J. Carter will sign and discuss The Strangler Vine, 4:30PM

Hurst

  • B&N Northeast Mall, Book Signing With Author Nell Christianson: Borrowed Goods It All Belongs to Him, 1PM

Midland

  • B&N, Author Signing: The Alastrine Legend by Debbie Nordman, 1PM

Plano

  • B&N Preston/Park, Rebarkable Lilly – Book Signing, 2PM

San Antonio

  • B&N San Pedro, Megan Kruse: Reading and Signing of Call Me Home, 1PM

Tyler

  • B&N, Lea Valle presents Sweet Paleo, 12PM
  • B&N Woodlands Mall, Chris Hernandez: Line in the Valley, 2PM

Sunday, April 5

No readings on Easter Sunday

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