• TCU Language & Culture Festival 2017, Fort Worth, October 24-26
• National Black Book Festival, Houston, October 26-28
• Literary Lubbock 2017, October 27
• 1st Annual Lubbock Book Festival, October 28
• Halloween ComicFest 2017, statewide, October 28
• 45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28–November 12

Ongoing Exhibits

• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 20 Years of Art, Abilene, September 14–October 28
• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1

Sunday, October 22

Austin

• BookPeople, DAVID LAUTERSTEIN speaking & signing Life in the Bones, 2PM
• BookPeople, WILL KOSTAKIS speaking & signing The Sidekicks, and ADI ALSAID speaking & signing North of Happy (in conversation with Katie of Mundie Moms), 6PM
• BookWoman, Sharon Harrigan reading and signing Playing with Dynamite, and Amanda Eyre Ward reading and signing The Nearness of You, 3:30PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author JB Bean will sell and sign her book Mister’s Garden, a story about a wild Texas cottontail rabbit, and local author James L. Capra will sell and sign his books including Leadership at the Front Line, 1PM
• Interabang Books, Terry Virts discusses and signs VIEW FROM ABOVE: AN ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPHS THE WORLD, 3PM
• The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas presents “Scrivener 101 Seminar” with Blake Atwood, 3PM

Frisco

• Frisco Public Library, Sisters In Crime – North Dallas meeting: “What To Expect When You’re Publishing” with Kendel Lynn, 2PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: NaNoWriMo Prep: 10 Easy Steps to Turn News into a Novel with Marian Szczepanski, 3PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Public Library – Central, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library 2017 Arts & Letters Awards, 2PM
• Witte Museum, Lewis Fisher will have a reception for his book, Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend, 2PM

Monday, October 23

Austin

• BookPeople, ALAN JACOBS speaking & signing How to Think, 7PM
• Dozen Street, Chicon Street Poets and Lit City Press present “Rally in the Word” with poet Amanda Johnson, 7PM

Dallas

• CBS Radio Performance Showroom, World Affairs Council DFW hosts Milan Vaishnav discussing and signing When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics, 6:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Wordspace Dallas presents Kelly Baker (the “Angry Filmmaker”) discussing and signing Road Dog, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Mark Bowden discussing and signing HUE 1968, 7PM

Perryton

• Perry Memorial Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 12PM

Tuesday, October 24

Austin

• BookPeople, MASHA GESSEN speaking & signing The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (in conversation with Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune), 7PM [ticketed event]
• Jessen Auditorium, Harry Ransom Lecture: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Slam hosted by Christopher Michael, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Park, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam book signing with Mark Bowden, 7PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Wiley Cash reads and signs The Last Ballad (with Ben Fountain), 7PM
• Interabang Books, Christine Wicker discussing and signing THE SIMPLE FAITH OF FDR, 7PM
• SMU – McFarlin Auditorium, Tate Lecture Series: freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, author of A House in the Sky: A Memoir, 8PM

Fort Worth

• TCU, Live Oak Reading Series featuring poet and fiction writer Jarita Davis, 6:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam book signing with Mark Bowden, 7PM

Houston

• The Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting featuring Elizabeth White Olsen of Writespace, 6:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Cassie Beasley will sign her new book, TUMBLE AND BLUE, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Cristina Rivera Garza reading and signing THE ILIAC CREST, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Stuart Woods will sign his new Stone Barrington novel, Quick and Dirty, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Country Club, Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation presents 2nd Annual Power of Literacy Luncheon, 12PM
• University of Houston – Dudley Recital Hall, Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Art History: Thomas Crow, author of No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art, 6:30PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Workshop: “12 Steps to Writing a Novel” with Kirk von der Heydt, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM

Wellington

• Collingsworth County Public Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 7PM

Wednesday, October 25

Abilene

• Hardin-Simmons University, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 8PM

Anson

• Anson Public Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 12PM

Austin

• Alamo Drafthouse – South Lamar, screening of Anna Faris’s film The House Bunny, followed by a live Q&A with Faris in the theater, + all guests will receive a copy of Faris’s debut book, Unqualified, with a signed bookplate, 8PM
• Austin Public Library – Terrazas, Aural Literature: Local writers read their own work aloud for the public, 7PM
• BookPeople, Chris Guillebeau speaking & signing Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days, 7PM

Boerne

• Terraces at Cibolo Clubhouse, Walter Danley will read selections from his Wainwright Mystery series  novels The Tipping Point and Inside Moves, 4PM

Dallas

• Alamo Drafthouse – Cedars, screening of Anna Faris’s film The House Bunny, followed by a Q&A via Skype with Faris, + all guests will receive a copy of Faris’s debut book, Unqualified, with a signed bookplate, 8PM
• Deep Vellum Books, poet Andrew Wessels reads and signs A Turkish Dictionary, 7PM
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Friends of the SMU Libraries present Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow discussing and signing GRANT, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Mark Bowden discussing and signing HUE 1968, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, the first night of a new storytelling series, “Rejected: Stories Unsold,” 7:30PM

Denton

• University of North Texas, 18th- and 19th-Century Studies Colloquium: “Blood Sugar Boycotts, Gender, and British Abolitionist Literature” presented by Dr. Patricia Matthew, 3:30PM

Fort Worth

• The Fort Worth Club, World Affairs Council DFW hosts Mark Bowden discussing and signing Hue 1968 – A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, 11:30AM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Wiley Cash will discuss and sign his new novel, THE LAST BALLAD, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Tom Philpott discussing and signing GLORY DENIED, 7PM
• The Tasting Room, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Jeremi Suri discussing and signing The Impossible Presidency, 7:15PM

Junction

• Kimble County Library, Dana Glossbrenner will discuss and sign The Lark and Women Behind Stained Glass, 12PM

Pasadena

• B&N – Fairway Market, April Henry signing her Girl, Stolen series, 7PM

Thursday, October 26

Austin

• BookPeople, WILEY CASH speaking & signing The Last Ballad, 7PM [ticketed event]
• LBJ Presidential Library, Secretary Madeleine Albright signs Madam Secretary and Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box, and Bob Schieffer signs Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News, 4:30PM

Ballinger

• Ballinger Memorial Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 12PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Nicole Krauss reads and signs Forest Dark, 7PM
• B&N – Lincoln Park, Jon Acuff signs Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done, 7PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Nonfiction Authors Association meeting: “Book Design Matters: What You Need to Know about Book Design” with Melinda Martin, 7PM
• First United Methodist Church of Dallas, Arts & Letters Live hosts Walter Isaacson discussing and signing Leonardo da Vinci, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Collectible Conversations: Understanding Cemetery Symbols with Tui Snider, 6PM
• SMU – Cox School of Business, Have dinner with feminist author and founder of “Feministing” Jessica Valenti, 6PM (followed by a lecture and book signing at 8PM)
• SMU Central Libraries, Discussion: From Paying to Read to Paying to Publish: Is the Shift Inevitable?, 4PM
• SMU – James M. Collins Executive Education Center, “Cities, Suburbs, and the New America: Minorities, Immigrants, and Millennials in America’s Favorite Geography” featuring presentations and expert panels with former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, author Joel Kotkin, and MIT Professor Alan Berger, 7:15AM
• The Wild Detectives, poet Derrick C. Brown reads and signs How the Body Works the Dark, 7:30PM

Houston

• Body Mind & Soul, Awaken Your Inner Fire workshop and book signing with HeatherAsh Amara, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Jaye Wells will sign and discuss Volatile Bonds, 7PM
• Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Roger Reeves, Zachary Caballero, and Onyinye Ihezukwu, 8PM
• Rice University, The O’Brien Medieval and Early Modern Studies Guest Lecture Series: “Ghost Stories” by Dr. Scott Bruce, author of the forthcoming The Penguin Book of Hell: Three Thousand Years of Torment, 8PM

Lubbock

• LHUCA’s Firehouse Theater, 2017-18 TTU Creative Writing Program Reading Series hosts Alexander Chee, award-winning author of The Queen of the Night, 7PM

Menard

• Menard Public Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 6PM

Richmond

• George Memorial Library, Gulf Coast Reads: historical re-enactment of Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd’s role of reading the news to rural Texans in 1870, from the novel News of the World by Paulette Jiles, 7PM

San Antonio

• Greater San Antonio Builders Association Ballroom, Friends of Ronald McDonald House Fall Luncheon: Jim Lefko, author of Spurs Nation, will be the guest speaker + book signing, 11:30AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Miles Arceneaux reads and signs Hidden Sea, 7PM
  

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Victoria

• University of Houston, American Book Review Reading Series present Ru Freeman, 12PM

Friday, October 27

Austin

• BookPeople, MARK BOWDEN speaking & signing Hue 1968, 7PM [ticketed event]
• Malvern Books, I Scream Social Reading Series: Halloween Edition featuring Kelsey Williams, Jourden Sander, and Sunny Leal, 7PM [costumes encouraged!]

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry & Arts, 7PM
• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents OPP Slam, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Terry Virts discussing and signing VIEW FROM ABOVE, 7PM
• Writespace, Frightspace Halloween: recreate the friendly competition that inspired Mary Shelley to write her gothic monster tale Frankenstein in 1816 with a Terrifying Tales Contest and open mic, 7:30PM

Junction

• Kimble County Library, Stew Magnuson giving a multimedia presentation of The Last American Highway in Texas, 12PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Christopher Carmona reads and signs The Road to Llorona Park, 5PM
  

Saturday, October 28

Arlington

• Half Price Books – South Cooper, local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign Prompts and Prompts, Too, collections of fictional war stories based on real accounts, 1PM

Austin

• B&N – Lakeline, Book signing for Texas Hill Country: A Scenic Journey by Eric Pohl, 1PM
• Black Box Theatre, Latinx Writers Showcase featuring Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Natalia Sylvester, ire’ne lara silva, Rios de la Luz, and Leticia Urieta, 5PM
• BookPeople, KATE WINKLER DAWSON speaking & signing Death in the Air (in conversation with Becka Oliver of the Writers’ League of Texas), 6PM
• Elizabeth Street Café, Elizabeth Street Cafe Cookbook brunch and Texas Book Festival panel, 11:30AM [sold out]
• Sharp Noggin, Cider Spoon Stories workshop: “Writing & Publishing Self-Help and Business E-Books” with Jess Hagemann, 10AM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Bob Schieffer discussing and signing OVERLOAD: FINDING THE TRUTH IN TODAY’S DELUGE OF NEWS, 7PM
• Opening Bell Coffee, book launch for EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by JR Forasteros, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Ghost Scribes present “Poe in the ‘Hood” with storytellers Priscilla Rice, Decee Cornish, and JB Edwards, 6PM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Bruce Berman discussing and signing Walking Juárez, 2PM
• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “On My Altar Place” with poet Raquel Mejía , 12:45PM
• Literarity Book Shop, A Reading of The Notebook of Nancy Lea by Adair Margo, founder of the Tom Lea Institute, 2:30PM

Fort Worth

• Half Price Books – Ridgmar/Westover Village, local author Darrell D. Bartell will sell and sign his paranormal book Barry and the Vampire in the Rosedale Encounter, 1PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Melanie Shankle will discuss and sign her newest book, CHURCH OF THE SMALL THINGS, 11AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, celebrate with Liara Tamani as she launches CALLING MY NAME, her debut novel for teens, 4PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Cory Putnam Oakes reading and signing WITCHTOWN, 3PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Murder By the Book, Kris Lackey will sign and discuss Nail’s Crossing, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Charles Carroll and John David Mann discuss and sign The Recipe: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Ingredients of Greatness, 3PM

Pearland

• Half Price Books, local author Professor J will sell and sign his children’s book, Jacques, 12PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, meet legendary soccer coach Gordon Jago as he signs his autobiography, A Soccer Pioneer, 12PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Cynthia Levesque signing Backfill, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Margie Meyers signs Unsuspecting Prey, 11AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Texas Poetry Calendar 2018 launch and poetry reading, 4PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Jason Morgan signing A Dog Called Hope, 1PM
• B&N – Town Square, John Finch signing The Father Effect, 4PM

Sunday, October 29

Austin

• BookPeople, Hayden Gilbert, Jeremy Hepler, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Bryce Wilson, RJ Joseph, and Bret McCormick speaking & signing ROAD KILL: Texas Horror by Texas Writers VOL 2 (moderated by E.R Bills), 2PM
• BookPeople, author Taisia Kitaiskaia and illustrator Katy Horan speaking & signing Literary Witches, 5PM
• First United Methodist Church, VAN JONES speaking & signing Beyond the Messy Truth (in conversation with Forrest Wilder of The Texas Observer), 4PM [ticketed event]
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of Kathryn Lane’s Backyard Volcano and Other Mysteries of the Heart, an anthology of short stories (with Lowell Mick White), 4PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Do It Again: Conventions and Experiments in the Art of Revision” with Adam Soto, 3:30PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Kena Sosa will sell and sign her children’s book, The Unhuggables, and local author Earlina Green will sell and sign her self-help book, The Beginner’s Guide to Finding Your Brave, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, illustrator, artist, and graphic novelist Nidhi Chanani will discuss and sign her debut graphic novel, Pashmina, 5PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Texas artist and Tarot deck author Taylor Ellis will be performing readings, 12PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Find an Agent” with Joy Preble, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Pat Hammond signs Name Them–They Fly Better: Pat Hammond’s Theory of Aerodynamics, 12PM
  

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