{"id":131,"date":"2018-12-31T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:52:06","slug":"special-events-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Special Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"u19852-17\">\n<li id=\"u19852-9\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.utexas.edu\/exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition,<\/a><\/span> Austin, February 10\u2013July 6, 2015<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-14\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu\/exhibitions-events\/exhibitions\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u19852-10\">Armadillo Rising: Austin\u2019s Music Scene in the 1970s<\/span>,<\/a> Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 \u2013 July 3, 2015<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-16\">A Hemispheric Conversation: Queer\/Feminist Independent Publishing Projects \u2018Belleza y Felicidad\u2019 and \u2018Belladonna\u2019 exhibit, Austin, April 14 &#8211; May 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-20\">Sunday, May 3<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-22\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-31\">\n<li id=\"u19852-24\">B&#038;N &#8211; Arboretum, Meet &#038; Greet Book Signing With Francis Boafo, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-26\">BookPeople, Author ANNE BUSTARD speaking &#038; signing Anywhere But Paradise, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-28\">BookWoman, The Gender Book Reading &#038; Signing, 3:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-30\">Malvern Books, The Lion &#038; The Pirate Unplugged, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-34\">Monday, May 4<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-36\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-43\">\n<li id=\"u19852-38\">Austin Java on Parkway, ACC Literary Coffeehouse featuring the students of W. Joe Hoppe\u2019s advanced poetry class, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-40\">BookPeople, Instagram Personality &#038; Yoga Teacher RACHEL BRATHEN speaking &#038; signing Yoga Girl, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-42\">Opal Divine&#8217;s, MysteryPeople Presents NOIR AT THE BAR featuring authors JAMIE KORNEGAY, GEORGE WEIR, BRUCE REHBURG and JESSE SUBLETT, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-46\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-49\">\n<li id=\"u19852-48\">Brazos Bookstore, Kathleen Lee reads and signs ALL THINGS TENDING TOWARDS THE ETERNAL, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-52\">Tuesday, May 5<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-54\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-59\">\n<li id=\"u19852-56\">BookPeople, Debut Authors: DINA GUIDUBALDI reads and signs How Gone We Got: Stories and MELISSA FALCON FIELD reads and signs What Burns Away, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-58\">Spider House Cafe &#038; Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-62\">College Station<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-65\">\n<li id=\"u19852-64\">B&#038;N, Jean Reagan signs How to Surprise a Dad, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-68\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-73\">\n<li id=\"u19852-70\">B&#038;N &#8211; Lincoln Park, Charlaine Harris to Discuss and Sign Day Shift, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-72\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, Jon Acuff reads and signs Do Over, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-76\">Fort Worth<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-79\">\n<li id=\"u19852-78\">The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-82\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-87\">\n<li id=\"u19852-84\">Brazos Bookstore, Jamie Kornegay reads and signs SOIL, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-86\">Murder By the Book, Greg Iles will sign and discuss The Bone Tree, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-90\">Irving<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-93\">\n<li id=\"u19852-92\">Irving Public Library &#8211; Valley Ranch, Author Visit with Kelly Light, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-96\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-99\">\n<li id=\"u19852-98\">Briscoe Western Art Museum, Cowboy Poetry, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-102\">Wednesday, May 6<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-104\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-111\">\n<li id=\"u19852-106\">BookPeople, Author AMELIA GRAY speaking &#038; signing Gutshot: Stories, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-108\">Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Gregg Dimmick, author of Sea of Mud, tells stories behind his archeological findings at San Jacinto, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-110\">Malvern Books, An Evening with Noel Crook &#038; Kirk Wilson, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-114\">El Paso<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-117\">\n<li id=\"u19852-116\">UTEP Library, launch of the graphic novel La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico, 4:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-120\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-127\">\n<li id=\"u19852-122\">Blue Willow Bookshop, Jan-Philipp Sendker will discuss and sign his new book, WHISPERING SHADOWS, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-124\">Brazos Bookstore, Geoff Rips reads and signs THE CALCULUS OF FALLING BODIES &#038; Carol Flake reads and signs WRITTEN IN WATER, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-126\">Murder By the Book, Charlaine Harris will sign and discuss Day Shift, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-130\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-135\">\n<li id=\"u19852-132\">Southwest School of Art, A Crown for Gumecindo Book Launch Party with Laurie Ann Guerrero, Poet Laureate, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-134\">The Twig Book Shop, David Heymann reads and signs My Beautiful City Austin, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-138\">Thursday, May 7<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-140\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-143\">\n<li id=\"u19852-142\">BookPeople, Internationally Recognized Speaker, Poet, Author JESSIE CLOSE speaking &#038; signing Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-146\">Conroe<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-149\">\n<li id=\"u19852-148\">Dosey Doe Coffee House &#8211; Music Cafe, 24th Annual Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration and Poetry Reading, 5:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-152\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-159\">\n<li id=\"u19852-154\">B&#038;N &#8211; Lincoln Park, Becky Wade Discussing A Love Like Ours, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-156\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen will read, discuss and sign her new novel Saint Anything, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-158\">Perot Museum of Nature and Science at Victory Park, National Geographic LIVE! Paul Nicklen: Polar Obsession followed by a book signing, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-162\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-167\">\n<li id=\"u19852-164\">Blue Willow Bookshop, Jean Reagan will discuss and sign her picture book, HOW TO SURPRISE A DAD, 5PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-166\">The Houston Club, Join John DeMers for Cocktail Hour and some Delicious Mischief, 5:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-170\">Friday, May 8<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-172\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-179\">\n<li id=\"u19852-174\">B&#038;N &#8211; Arboretum, Discussion and Signing With Robert Taylor: Finding the Right Psychiatrist: A Guide for Discerning Consumers, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-176\">BookPeople, Austin Author MARK FALKIN speaking &#038; signing Contract City, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-178\">UT &#8211; Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center for Writing Spring 2015 Graduating MFA Class readings, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-182\">College Station<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-185\">\n<li id=\"u19852-184\">B&#038;N, Lindsay Cummings signs Balance Keepers #1 The Fires of Calderon, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-188\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-191\">\n<li id=\"u19852-190\">McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), WordSpace presents an evening performance from internationally acclaimed poet Anne Waldman, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-194\">Fort Worth<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-197\">\n<li id=\"u19852-196\">B&#038;N &#8211; Hulen Center, Marc Cameron signs Day Zero (Jericho Quinn Series #5), 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-200\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-211\">\n<li id=\"u19852-202\">B&#038;N &#8211; River Oaks, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice &#8211; Beyond Alchemy, 4PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-204\">Brazos Bookstore, Gwendolyn Womack reads and signs THE MEMORY PAINTER, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-206\">Discovery Green, Orbit Poetry Slam, 6PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-208\">Fundamentally Toys, Lawson Gow signs Silly Shoes, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-210\">River Oaks Bookstore, Grady Gaines reads and signs I&#8217;ve Been Out There, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-214\">Round Rock<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-217\">\n<li id=\"u19852-216\">B&#038;N &#8211; La Frontera, Cedar Ridge High School Poetry Night, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-220\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-223\">\n<li id=\"u19852-222\">The Twig Book Shop, Eric Blehm reads and signs Legend: A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret&#8217;s Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-226\">Saturday, May 9<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-228\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-233\">\n<li id=\"u19852-230\">Brush Square behind the O. Henry and Susanna Dickinson Museums, 38th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships, 11AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-232\">Malvern Books, Hothouse Literary Journal Premiere, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-236\">El Paso<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-239\">\n<li id=\"u19852-238\">B&#038;N &#8211; Fountains at Farah, Paul Garcia Signing The Adventures of Rocky Bear, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-242\">Fort Worth<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-245\">\n<li id=\"u19852-244\">B&#038;N &#8211; Hulen Center, Authors Johnell Kelley and Robbyn Foster a.k.a. Joan Rylen sign Upstate Uproar, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-248\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-265\">\n<li id=\"u19852-250\">B&#038;N &#8211; River Oaks, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice &#8211; Beyond Alchemy, 10AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-252\">Blue Willow Bookshop, Dianna Aston will discuss and sign her picture book, A NEST IS NOISY, 11AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-254\">Blue Willow Bookshop, Author Tricia Barr will celebrate the release of ULTIMATE STAR WARS, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-256\">Houston Pubic Library, Vikram Chandra, author of GEEK SUBLIME, will be interviewed by Houston author Chitra Divakaruni with book signing to follow, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-258\">Katy Budget Books, local author Christy Esmahan reading and signing her new book, The Laptev Virus, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-260\">Murder By the Book, John Lescroart will sign and discuss his new Dismas Hardy novel, The Fall, 4:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-262\">River Oaks Bookstore, Shirley Jordan-Bellamy reads and signs A Trip to the Barber Shop, 1PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-264\">Writespace, Anything Goes: All Genre Open Mic, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-268\">Hurst<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-271\">\n<li id=\"u19852-270\">B&#038;N &#8211; NE Mall, Book Signing With Author Lara Lacombe: Killer Exposure, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-274\">Irving<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-277\">\n<li id=\"u19852-276\">Irving Public Library &#8211; South Branch, local author Jenny Martin\u2019s launch party celebrating her debut YA novel Tracked, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-280\">Plano<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-283\">\n<li id=\"u19852-282\">B&#038;N &#8211; Preston\/Park, Beautiful Evil Winter &#8211; Author Signing, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-286\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-291\">\n<li id=\"u19852-288\">B&#038;N &#8211; La Cantera, Jesse Sublett signs 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-290\">Viva! Bookstore, Book Signing and Reading: Joy Beyond Agony with San Antonio Author Jane Roach, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-294\">Terrell<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-297\">\n<li id=\"u19852-296\">Book &#038; Crannies, Release Party for Taylor Anderson&#8217;s Straits of Hell, 4PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-300\">Webster<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-303\">\n<li id=\"u19852-302\">B&#038;N &#8211; Baybrook II, A Special Mother&#8217;s Day Signing With Shanalee Sharboneau, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u19852-306\">Sunday, May 10\u00a0\u00a0 MOTHER&#8217;S DAY<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u19852-308\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-313\">\n<li id=\"u19852-310\">Malvern Books, Mother\u2019s Day Reading with Revolution Writing Workshop, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u19852-312\">Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette, 4PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-316\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-319\">\n<li id=\"u19852-318\">B&#038;N &#8211; River Oaks, George Arnold signs Fire and Ice &#8211; Beyond Alchemy, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-322\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-325\">\n<li id=\"u19852-324\">The Twig Book Shop, Clayton Dorn Coburn and Sharon Dorn Gill read and sign Had to Take Break: Bicycling Misadventures, 10AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-328\">Southlake<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u19852-331\">\n<li id=\"u19852-330\">B&#038;N &#8211; Town Square, Author Signing &#8211; Tracked by Jenny Martin, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u19852-334\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10\u2013July 6, 2015 Armadillo Rising: Austin\u2019s Music Scene in the 1970s, Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 \u2013 July 3, 2015 A Hemispheric Conversation: Queer\/Feminist Independent Publishing Projects \u2018Belleza y Felicidad\u2019 and \u2018Belladonna\u2019 exhibit, Austin, April 14 &#8211; May 9 Sunday, May 3 Austin B&#038;N [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}