{"id":279,"date":"2018-12-31T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:33:53","slug":"special-events-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Special Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"u38627-30\">\n<li id=\"u38627-8\"><span id=\"u38627-6\">Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio<\/span><span id=\"u38627-7\">, September 1 &#8211; October 8<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-11\"><span id=\"u38627-9\">Amazing Houston Comic Con,<\/span> September 4 &#8211; 6<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-14\"><span id=\"u38627-12\">Langdon Review Weekend,<\/span> Granbury, September 9 &#8211; 12<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-17\"><span id=\"u38627-15\">Texas Word Wrangler Festival, <\/span>Giddings, September 11<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-20\"><span id=\"u38627-18\">Alamo City Comic Con,<\/span> San Antonio, September 11 &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-23\"><span id=\"u38627-21\">DFW Literary Soulfest,<\/span> Fort Worth, September 11 &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-26\"><span id=\"u38627-24\">National Cowboy Symposium &#038; Celebration,<\/span> Lubbock, September 11 &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-29\"><span id=\"u38627-27\">David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum<\/span> exhibit, Abilene, National Children\u2019s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-33\">Sunday, Sept. 6<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-35\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-38\">\n<li id=\"u38627-37\">The Wild Detectives, the inaugural DALLAS ZINE PARTY!, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-41\">Monday, Sept. 7<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u38627-48\">\n<li id=\"u38627-47\">It&#8217;s Labor Day, so no bookish types are laboring (at least not in public). Y&#8217;all go read <span>Working<\/span> by <span>Studs Terkel.<\/span> Happy Labor Day!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-51\">Tuesday, Sept. 8<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-53\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-58\">\n<li id=\"u38627-55\">BookPeople, Taking the Heat &#8211; Women Chefs Panel: featuring DEBORAH HARRIS &#038; PATTI GIUFFRE speaking &#038; signing Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen, with chef panelists Jennifer Costello &#8211; The Bonneville, Erica Beneke &#8211; Max&#8217;s Wine Dive, Jodi Eliott &#8211; Bribery Bakery, and Erica Waksmunski &#8211; Red Star Southern, moderated by Austin American-Statesman Food Editor ADDIE BROYLES, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-57\">Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Story Department presents MEET ME AT THE BIKE RACKS with storytellers Stephanie Noll, Carol Ramsey, and Katherine Moore, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u38627-61\">\n<li id=\"u38627-60\">Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-64\">Fort Worth<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-67\">\n<li id=\"u38627-66\">The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-70\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-75\">\n<li id=\"u38627-72\">River Oaks Bookstore, Mark Pople reads and signs Rogers Park, 5PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-74\">University of Houston &#8211; Downtown, reading by US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY, 5:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-78\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-81\">\n<li id=\"u38627-80\">The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-84\">Wednesday, Sept. 9<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-86\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-91\">\n<li id=\"u38627-88\">BookPeoople, Debut Novelist MELISSA DECARLO speaking &#038; signing The Art of Crash Landing, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-90\">BookWoman, Georgia Huston discusses and signs Pain: An Owner&#8217;s Manual, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-94\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-97\">\n<li id=\"u38627-96\">Jewish Community Center of Dallas, Dr. Michael Weisberg, author of THE HOSPITALIST, will conduct a book discussion, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-100\">Granbury<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-103\">\n<li id=\"u38627-102\">Langdon Center, Postcards from Texas: a celebration of Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem &#038; Song moderated by Donna Walker-Nixon, Cassy Burleson, Rachel Crawford,and Anne McCrady, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-106\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-111\">\n<li id=\"u38627-108\">Houston Public Library &#8211; Central, US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY launches The Favorite Poem Project, 6PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-110\">Murder By the Book, Reed Farrel Coleman will sign and discuss Robert B. Parker&#8217;s The Devil Wins, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-114\">Marfa<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-117\">\n<li id=\"u38627-116\">Marfa Book Company, Ray Caballero, former mayor of El Paso, will read from Lynching Pascual Orozco, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-120\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-123\">\n<li id=\"u38627-122\">Viva! Bookstore, literary evening with Voices de la Luna, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-126\">Thursday, Sept. 10<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-128\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-139\">\n<li id=\"u38627-130\">AGE of Central Texas, Austin Poetry Caravan Reading, 2:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-132\">Benson Latin American Collection &#8211; UT, Exhibition Opening \u2013 Wood, Paper, String: The Art and History of Brazilian Cordel Literature, 5PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-134\">BookPeople, Critically Acclaimed Artist MARK MENJIVAR speaking &#038; signing The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-136\">The Long Center, an evening with author Frank Warren, the founder of The PostSecret Project, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-138\">Malvern Books, Novel Night with Maria Elena Sandovici &#038; Patrice Sarath, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-142\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-153\">\n<li id=\"u38627-144\">Brazos Bookstore, Melissa DeCarlo reads and signs THE ART OF CRASH LANDING, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-146\">Blue Willow Bookshop, Patricia Polacco will share her new picture book for children, TUCKY JO AND LITTLE HEART, 5PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-148\">Holocaust Museum Houston, The Red Handkerchief: A Holocaust Memoir discussion and signing with Yvonne Ward-Hughes and Maria Spronk-Hughes, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-150\">Murder By the Book, William S. Kirby will sign and discuss Vienna, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-152\">Museum of Fine Arts Houston, US POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY talk and launch of ARTlines2 Anthology: Art Becomes Poetry, followed by a signing, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-156\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-161\">\n<li id=\"u38627-158\">Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, The DoSeum annual Outside the Lunchbox Luncheon: author Amanda Ripley presents The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got that Way, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-160\">Viva! Bookstore, Bruce Spohn reads and signs Lovers by the Lake: More Than a Romance, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-164\">San Marcos<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-167\">\n<li id=\"u38627-166\">Wittliff Collections, reading by Daniel Orozco, 3:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-170\">Friday, Sept. 11<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-172\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-183\">\n<li id=\"u38627-174\">BookPeople, the New Writers Project Presents PEN\/Faulkner Finalist T. GERONIMO JOHNSON speaking &#038; signing Welcome to Braggsville, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-176\">Malvern Books, On Rats, Bombs, and Volcanoes: The Power of Emily Dickinson\u2019s Subversions with author and poet Wendy Barker, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-178\">Resistencia Bookstore, Caf\u00e9 Libro Open Mic featuring Jasmine Bell, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-180\">UT University Co-OP, Bower Yousse and Thomas Cryan sign Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football, 5PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-182\">Westwood Country Club, Texas Book Festival Literary Lunch with Steven Weinberg, author of To Explain the World: The Discover of Modern Science, 11:15AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-186\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-189\">\n<li id=\"u38627-188\">Lucky Dog Books &#8211; Oak Cliff, Poets on X+ featuring Heather Rose Hatch, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u38627-195\">\n<li id=\"u38627-194\">Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading by Daniel Orozco, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-198\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-205\">\n<li id=\"u38627-200\">San Antonio Country Club, Lewis Fisher presents American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio&#8217;s River, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-202\">The Southwest School of Art, Khadijah Queen poetry reading and art exhibit, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-204\">The Twig Book Shop, Marion Jacobson discusses and signs Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-208\">Webster<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-211\">\n<li id=\"u38627-210\">B&#038;N, George Arnold signing Fire and Ice &#8211; Beyond Alchemy, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-214\">Saturday, Sept. 12<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-216\">Arlington<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-219\">\n<li id=\"u38627-218\">Half Price Books &#8211; Lincoln Square, Brad Cotton will sell and sign Thinking 101: Fundamentals of a Successful Mindset, 4PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-222\">Amarillo<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-225\">\n<li id=\"u38627-224\">Cavender\u2019s Boot City, Jodi Thomas will sell and sign Ransom Canyon, 12PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-228\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-237\">\n<li id=\"u38627-230\">Austin Book Arts Center, Open House to celebrate the inaugural season, 10AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-232\">Legacy Oaks, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-234\">Malvern Books, An Evening with Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Tyler Gobble &#038; Ben Kopel, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-236\">St. Edward&#8217;s University, \u201cNever Let Me Go: How to Grab the Attention of Readers, Editors, and Agents with Your Opening Pages\u201d with Michael Noll, 9AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-240\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-247\">\n<li id=\"u38627-242\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, Cindy Dees will discuss and sign The Sleeping King, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-244\">LuminArte Gallery, Authorlink Sociable Lecture Series with Sarah Bird, Bryan Mealer, and Hugh Aynesworth, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-246\">The Wild Detectives, Bonehouse poetry reading, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-250\">El Paso<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-253\">\n<li id=\"u38627-252\">Memorial Park Public Library, Valentin Sandoval workshop: Visual\/Lyrical Confluence (a Tumblewords Project), 12:45PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-256\">Fort Worth<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-259\">\n<li id=\"u38627-258\">The Library Cafe, S.L.A.M. The Spoken Language Arts Movement, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-262\">Galveston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-265\">\n<li id=\"u38627-264\">The Witchery, author Ellen Dugan meet &#038; greet, classes and book signing, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-268\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-283\">\n<li id=\"u38627-270\">Bark Plaza Pet Hotel, Annie England Noblin will sign sit! stay! speak!, 11AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-272\">Kaboom Books, DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE exhibition by artist and book designer Russell Etchen, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-274\">Katy Budge Books, PF Karlin (aka local authors Linda Fagala and Karen Pugh) reads and signs Destiny Reborn, 1PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-276\">M.D. Anderson Library, Debra Winegarten presents Oveta Culp Hobby, 2:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-278\">Murder By the Book, Kay Finch will sign and discuss Black Cat Crossing, 4:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-280\">River Oaks Bookstore, Katherine O&#8217;Sullivan reads and signs Rose-Colored Glasses: A Memoir, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-282\">Writespace, Intro to Novel Writing Workshop with author Chris Rogers, 9:30AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-286\">Hurst<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-289\">\n<li id=\"u38627-288\">B&#038;N &#8211; NE Mall, Book Signing With Author Janice Jones: In Her Blood, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-292\">Plano<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-295\">\n<li id=\"u38627-294\">B&#038;N &#8211; Creekwalk Village, Adult Coloring Event and signing with Artist Cher Kaufmann, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-298\">Round Rock<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-301\">\n<li id=\"u38627-300\">B&#038;N &#8211; La Frontera, Melissa Hood signs Memoirs of an ADHD Mind, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-304\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-309\">\n<li id=\"u38627-306\">The Twig Book Shop, Shina James discusses and signs Like a Dream, 11AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-308\">The Twig Book Shop, poets Russell Evatt and Jaime Brunton read from and sign The Future is a Faint Song, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-312\">Southlake<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-315\">\n<li id=\"u38627-314\">B&#038;N &#8211; Town Square, Rebecca Ratliff signing Around the World in 80 Men, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-318\">Spring<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-321\">\n<li id=\"u38627-320\">Harris County Public Library &#8211; Barbara Bush Branch, Saadia Faruqi Author Talk and Book Signing: Brick Walls: Tales of Hope &#038; Courage from Pakistan, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-324\">Tyler<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-327\">\n<li id=\"u38627-326\">B&#038;N, Melissa DeCarlo signs The Art of Crash Landing, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u38627-333\">\n<li id=\"u38627-332\">Rufi\u2019s Cocina, Nuestra Voces open mic featuring poet &#038; publisher, Sarah Frances Moran, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u38627-336\">Sunday, Sept. 13<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u38627-338\">Arlington<\/p>\n<p id=\"u38627-340\">Half Price Books &#8211; Lincoln Square, Isaac Rowewill sell and sign I Love Anger, 1PM<\/p>\n<p id=\"u38627-343\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-354\">\n<li id=\"u38627-345\">Bookpeople, DREW DAYWALT speaking &#038; signing The Day the Crayons Came Home, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-347\">BookWoman, book launch for Paige Schilt&#8217;s QUEER ROCK LOVE: A Family Memoir, 5:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-349\">Homer Rainey Hall, Conspirare presents The Poet Sings: Emily Dickinson, 4PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-351\">Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Fani Papageorgiou, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Kurt Heinzelman, 1PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u38627-353\">Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents \u201cSpark of Madness\u201d, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u38627-357\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u38627-360\">\n<li id=\"u38627-359\">Dallas Museum of Art, Arts &#038; Letters Live series: R.L. 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