Jodi Picoult

NEW LOCATION: MOODY PERFORMANCE CENTER

In conversation with Lisa Wingate

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire told in intertwining timelines rooted in primary historical sources.   

Two women born centuries apart are determined to create, despite the prejudices they face. Melina Green has just written a new play inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor, but fears that she’ll never get her work produced on stage due to lingering discrimination against women, even in the 21st century. As she contemplates risking failure again, her best friend submits her play to a festival under a male pseudonym. Meanwhile, in 1581, Emilia Bassano, endowed with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, forms a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.  

Jodi Picoult is the author of 29 novels, including Wish You Were Here, A Spark of Light, and My Sister’s Keeper. 

All books purchased as part of a ticket and book bundle will be pre-signed and include priority access to a post-event photo opportunity with Jodi Picoult. There will not be a post-event book signing.

DATES

Aug 27th 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$50

Public Tickets

$55

Join Barnes & Noble - Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, TX ,on Friday, August 9, 2024, at 4PM CT as we welcome New York Times bestselling authors, Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Maureen Johnson for a discussion and signing to celebrate the release of their new books, The Grandest Game and Death at Morning House, respectively.

The Grandest Game is a lush new chapter in the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games saga. Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches.

Death at Morning House is a new stand-alone YA novel about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself.

BONUS: Each ticket that includes The Grandest Game will receive a signed copy of the B&N Exclusive version of The Grandest Game, which features an alternate jacket and includes bonus content!

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*Customers can purchase either The Grandest Game B&N Exclusive or Death at Morning House to gain admission to the discussion or signing line only. The purchase of one book/ticket is required for entry. The other author's book will be available for purchase & signing at the store. YOU SHOULD NOT PURCHASE BOTH BOOKS ON EVENTBRITE in order to get both signed at the event. ONE TICKET PER PERSON.

The ticket options are:

DISCUSSION Admission - $21.64 (Admission to the discussion + one copy of either title + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of either The Grandest Game B&N Exclusive or Death at Morning House.

• Admission to the event space and signing line with Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Maureen Johnson.

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SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission - $21.64 (SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission + one copy of either title + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One copy of either The Grandest Game B&N Exclusive or Death at Morning House.

• Admission to the SIGNING LINE ONLY with Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Maureen Johnson.

NO ADMITTANCE, Shipped Book ONLY - $28.63 (one copy of either title + tax + shipping fee): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One signed (signature only) copy of The Grandest Game B&N Exclusive and/or Death at Morning House shipped to you.

• This ticket is only for those who would like a signed copy of The Grandest Game B&N Exclusive and/or Death at Morning House shipped to them. This ticket DOES NOT gain admittance to the in-person event at B&N Stonebriar in Frisco, TX.

• Books will be shipped AFTER the event. They will arrive in 8–10 business days.

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REFUNDS

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ABOUT The Grandest Game:

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games saga.

Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.

Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year’s game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits—physically, mentally, and emotionally—it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes delivers a brand-new series in the world of The Inheritance Games, where fan-favorite and new characters collide in a game you’ll never forget.

About Death at Morning House:

The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist.

With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that’s how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It’s easy enough, giving tours. Low risk of fire. High chance of getting bored talking about stained glass and nut cutlets and Prohibition.

Oh, and the deaths. Did anyone mention the deaths?

Maybe this job isn’t such a gift after all. Morning House has a horrific secret that’s been buried for decades, and now the person who brought her here is missing.

All it takes is one clue to set off a catastrophic chain of events. One small detail, just like a spark, could burn it all down—if someone doesn’t bury Marlowe first.

Deborah Harkness

Deborah Harkness returns with The Black Bird Oracle, the highly anticipated fifth novel in her beloved All Souls series. Harkness first introduced readers to Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, they bonded over the battle to recover a lost enchanted manuscript.  

Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. With a new formal demand from the Congregation, and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path to ensure her family’s safety and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed.  

Deborah Harkness is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships.

All books purchased as part of a ticket and book bundle will be pre-signed and include priority access to a post-event photo opportunity with Deborah Harkness. There will not be a post-event book signing.

DATES

Jul 25th 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$50

Public Tickets

$55

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances.

"You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone.
      But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. 
      From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SHAUN HAMILL received his BA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His debut novel, A Cosmology of Monsters, was published in 2019. His fiction has appeared in Carve and Come Join Us By the Fire 2. His nonfiction has appeared at Crimereads and Tor Nightfire. He lives and works near Dallas-Fort Worth.

ALEX TEMBLADOR is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Secrets of the Casa Rosada, Half Outlaw, and Writing An Identity Not Your Own. She is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Alex lives in Dallas, Texas, where she runs a literary panel series called LitTalk.

Thursday, July 25th, 6:00PM

Joyce Maynard

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns with How the Light Gets In, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways. 

In this heartrending multigenerational story, the indomitable matriarch Eleanor and her family navigate through 15 years as their lives play out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world—climate change, the January 6 insurrection, school violence—along with later-life love, parental alienation, and steadfast friendship. With touching insight, Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new who are making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call “home.” 

Joyce Maynard is the author of 12 previous novels and 5 books of nonfiction, as well as the syndicated column “Domestic Affairs.” Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into 16 languages. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were both adapted for film.  

Books will ship to virtual ticket holders after the event date. 

DATES

Jul 12th 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$20

Public Tickets

$25

Tracy Chevalier

From bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier comes The Glassmaker, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. 

It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes. 
 
Skipping like a stone through the centuries, the story follows Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure. 

Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of 10 previous novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into 45 languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, a play, and an opera. 

6:30 p.m.
The pre-event tour highlighting glassworks in the DMA's collection is at capacity. 

Books will be shipped to virtual ticket holders after the event date. 

DATES

Jun 25th 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$50 (includes a copy of "The Glassmaker")

Public Tickets

$55 (includes a copy of "The Glassmaker")

Join us at Whose Books for a special event with local photographer Richard Doherty! 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024 🕖 Time: 7 PM 📍 Location: Whose Books Richard Doherty will be sharing his stunning book of photography, Framing Oak Cliff. Dive into the vivid, sweeping panoramic images that beautifully capture the essence of the main business drag, Jefferson Boulevard. Don't miss this opportunity to meet the photographer and explore the visual stories of Oak Cliff!

A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST

Sign up: https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-big-texas-author-talk-online-lecture-series

Up Next: Alex Temblador, with moderator Daniel Peña, discussing Alex's new book on the craft of writing, Writing an Identity Not Your Own.

About Writing an Identity Not Your Own

A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.  

Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It's not a subject that's generally taught in creative writing programs, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar, class, or workshop, there's nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historically marginalized identities.  

In Writing an Identity Not Your Own, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is "identity," and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You'll learn about identity terms, stereotypes, and tropes, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities, sexual and romantic orientations, gender identities, disabilities, nationalities, and more. Through writing strategies, exercises, and literary excerpts, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines, dialogue, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phase through the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why it's important to get them right.

ABOUT ALEX TEMBLADOR
Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has appeared in PALABRITAS, D Magazine, Colorado Review, among others. Alex is the creator and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books and the Executive Director of Write Here DFW, the Dallas-Fort Worth literary calendar. In addition to teaching creative writing classes, she is an award-winning travel, arts, and culture journalist whose work has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Texas Monthly, among others. 

ABOUT DANIEL PENA

Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Formerly, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig, Germany, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, the Kenyon Review, Texas Monthly, NBC News, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel, Bang, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Big Texas Author Talk is a *free* lecture series devoted to showcasing Texas authors from across our big state.   Each month we feature one Texas author in conversation with another—from New York Times bestsellers living in Dallas, Houston, and Austin to our rich Texas Latinx border authors living in Laredo and McAllen, not to mention from other deep pockets and corners of our culturally diverse state.  

Our lecture series is as entertaining as it is informative—and like Texas itself, we offer a vast array of storytellers who represent the spirit of our extremely distinct Lone Star State and continue to keep us on the literary map. 

In the past, we’ve featured novelists such as Kathleen Kent, Marisol Cortez, Joe Lansdale, and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Texas poet laureates such as Carmen Tafolla, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Jenny Brown, and Emmy Perez. 

If you’ve visited with us over the last three years, you know who we are and what we do, and we thank you for your ongoing support. We value your presence and love seeing your faces! 

If you’re new to the Big Texas Author Talk and are just discovering who we are and what we do, we welcome you to join us virtually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7 pm CST.  

Steven Rowley

In conversation with Bradley Pritchett, Chief Experience Officer at the DMA 

Steven Rowley, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, returns with The Guncle Abroad, a charming sequel to his heartwarming bestseller The Guncle.  

It has been five years since Patrick O’Hara spent the summer caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother’s passing. When his brother announces he’s getting remarried in Italy, the now moody young teens are not thrilled. As they travel through Europe on their way to the wedding, Patrick tries his best to help them understand love, much as he once helped them comprehend grief. But when they arrive in Italy, Patrick is overextended managing a groom with cold feet, a recklessly flirtatious sister, and a growing rivalry with the kids’ charming soon-to-be-launt (lesbian aunt), all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner. 

Using his signature blend of humor and heart, Steven Rowley charms with a story about the complicated bonds of family, love, and what it takes to rediscover yourself, even at the ripe age of 50. 

Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book; The Editor, an NPR Best Book of the Year; The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Novel of the Year; and The Celebrants, a Today show Read with Jenna Book Club pick.  

Books will ship to virtual ticket holders after the event date. 

DATES

Jun 18th 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$20

Public Tickets

$25

Doris Kearns Goodwin

In conversation with Jim Falk, President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

Location: Moody Performance Hall

Presented in partnership with the Gail Koppman Lecture Series at the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth 

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history to portray the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, embarked upon in the last years of his life.  

The last great adventure of their 42-year marriage involved sifting through more than 300 boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia, an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s. This project imbued Dick’s final days with a sense of purpose and afforded them an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives.  

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson launched her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed that up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her last book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. 

This event does not have a virtual option. 

DATES

Jun 14th 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$35

Public Tickets

$40

About the event:

Join us for an evening of engaging book discussions, vibrant community, and an exclusive book signing. You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from Jonny about their latest book, get your copy autographed, and mingle with other wonderful book lovers.

About the auhtor:

JONNY GARZA VILLA (they/them) is an author of contemporary young adult literature with characters and settings inspired by their own Tejane, Chicane, and queer identities, including the Pura Belpré Honor Book Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun and Ander & Santi Were Here, a Bookshop.org Best YA of 2023 selection. Whatever the storyline, Jonny ultimately hopes Latines, and, more specifically, queer Mexican American young people will feel seen in their writing. When not writing, Jonny enjoys reading, playing Dungeons and Dragons, visiting taquerías, listening to Selena, and caring for their many cacti children. They live in San Antonio.

About the book:

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot--what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.

In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the cutest guys he's ever met.

Now eight months later, Rafie's ready for one final win. What he didn't plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his group while dealing with the loss of the most important person in his life--his beloved abuelo. Another hitch in his plan: The Selena Quintanilla-Perez Academy's Mariachi Todos Colores already has a lead vocalist, Rey Chavez--the boy Rafie made out with--who now stands between him winning and being the great Mariachi Rafie's abuelo always believed him to be. Despite their newfound rivalry for center stage, Rafie can't squash his feelings for Rey. Now he must decide between the people he's known his entire life or the one just starting to get to know the real him.

Canto Contigo is a love letter to Mexican culture, family and legacy, the people who shape us, and allowing ourselves to forge our own path. At its heart, this is one of the most glorious rivals-to-lovers romance about finding the one who challenges you in the most extraordinary ways.

Join Half Price Books for an event with bestselling author Lisa Wingate, as she discusses and signs her new book, Shelterwood. Tickets, which include a copy of the book, must be pre-purchased through Eventbrite for this event.

About Shelterwood

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of land barons hungry for power and oil wealth.

“A seamlessly crafted tale of tragedy, resilience, and triumph . . . Lisa Wingate once again gives poignant voice to the ‘lost’ children of American history.”—Lisa Scottoline, author of Eternal and Loyalty

Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the remote Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them . . . or worse.

Oklahoma, 1990. Law enforcement ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at newly minted Horsethief Trail National Park seeking a quiet place to balance a career and single parenthood. But no sooner has Valerie reported for duty than she’s faced with local controversy over the park’s opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. Val’s quest for the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

In this emotional and enveloping novel, Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law and the battle to see justice done. Amid times of deep conflict over who owns the land and its riches, Ollie and Val traverse the rugged and beautiful terrain, each leaving behind one life in search of another.

About Lisa Wingate

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than three million copies and been translated into over forty languages worldwide. The co-author, with Judy Christie, of the nonfiction book Before and After, Wingate is a Goodreads Choice Award winner, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, a Southern Book Prize winner, and was named among the 2023 Distinguished Alumni of Oklahoma State University. She lives with her husband in North Texas and Central Colorado.

Kevin Kwan, the iconic author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, presents Lies and Weddings, an outrageous comedy about what happens when a forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding.

Rufus Leung Gresham has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind the glamorous façade lies a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister’s wedding at a luxury eco-resort and seduce a woman with money.

From the black sand beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech, from the glitzy bachelor pads of Los Angeles to the inner sanctums of England’s oldest family estates, Kwan unfurls a hilarious and thrillingly plotted story of love, money, murder, sex, and the lies we tell about them all.

Kevin Kwan has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. The film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians became Hollywood’s highest grossing romantic comedy in over a decade.

All ticket types include a copy of Lies and Weddings. 

Books will be shipped to virtual ticket holders after the event date.

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$50 (includes a copy of "Lies and Weddings")

Public Tickets

$55 (includes a copy of "Lies and Weddings")

About the book:

An unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness from award-winning poet Dorothy Chan.

The speaker in Dorothy Chan’s fifth collection, Return of the Chinese Femme, walks through life fearlessly, “forehead forever exposed,” the East Asian symbol of female aggression. She’s the troublemaker protagonist—the “So Chinese Girl”—the queer in a family of straights— the rambunctious ringleader of the girl band, always ready with the perfect comeback, wearing a blue fur coat, drinking a whiskey neat. They indulge on the themes of food, sex, fantasy, fetish, popular culture, and intimacy.

Chan organizes the collection in the form of a tasting menu, offering the reader a taste of each running theme. Triple sonnets, recipe poems, and other inventive plays on diction and form pepper the collection. Amidst the bravado, Return of the Chinese Femme represents all aspects of her identity—Asian heritage, queerness, kid of immigrants’ story—in the most real ways possible, conquering the world through joy and resilience.

RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME

Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of multiple poetry collections, including BABE (Diode Editions, 2021), Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2023 finalist for the Roethke Poetry Award for Revenge of the Asian Woman, 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club for BABE, a 2020 and 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere.

Chan is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) BIPOC literary arts organization, run by women, femme, and queer editors of color. Chan was the 2021 Resident Artist for Toward One Wisconsin. They were a 2022 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System’s Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ People.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam, winner of a VIDA Award and a GLCA New Writers’ Award. Born in Brooklyn, NY to Bangladeshi immigrants and raised in Texas, Tarfia currently lives in Dallas.

Join us for an evening of engaging book discussions, vibrant community, and an exclusive book signing. You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from Jonny about their latest book, get your copy autographed, and mingle with other wonderful book lovers.

Join us for an electrifying book presentation event featuring two distinguished authors in the realm of psychological science fiction. Chris Panatier will mesmerize you with “The Redemption of Morgan Bright,” a profound exploration of memory, reality, and the horrors human beings can inflict upon one another. Alongside, Ryan Leslie presents “Colossus,” weaving intricate tales that challenge the fabric of reality itself. Both authors skillfully fuse their life experiences with their creative prowess to craft stories that resonate with fans of the genre. Ryan’s background in research contrasts with his ventures into speculative fiction from Austin, Texas, while Dallas’s own Chris Panatier brings his versatile talents in poetry, storytelling, and art to the fore. Embark on a journey through the imaginative landscapes they’ve meticulously crafted.

About the authors

Chris Panatier lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, daughter, and a fluctuating herd of animals resembling dogs (one is almost certainly a goat). He writes poetry, short stories, and novels, and also illustrates book covers and metal albums.

Ryan Leslie is the author of Colossus and The Between, both from Parliament House Press. By day he oversees research for a large health system, where making stuff up is generally frowned upon. His creative outlet has always been writing fiction. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, children’s author Lindsay Leslie, and their two sons.

Nicholas Kristof

In conversation with Krys Boyd, KERA

Promotional Partners: KERA and World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth 

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Nicholas Kristof, Chasing Hope is a gripping memoir about his life in journalism. Since 1984, Kristof has worked for the New York Times, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his path from a small-town farm in Oregon to reporting from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, while traveling to India, Africa, and Europe. Kristof witnessed and wrote about century-defining events: the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, and the wave of addiction that swept through working-class America.

This is a candid memoir of vulnerability and courage, humility and purpose—a singular tale of the trials, tribulations, and hope to be found in a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth.

Nicholas Kristof has co-authored several books with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, including A Path Appears, Half the Sky, and Tightrope. Together they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China. They also received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. He won his second Pulitzer Prize for his columns on Darfur.

Books will ship to virtual ticket holders after the event date. 

LOCATION

Horchow Auditorium

TICKET INFO

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$30

Public Tickets

$35

Erik Larson in conversation with JK Nickell, Texas Monthly 

Master storyteller Erik Larson returns with The Demon of Unrest, a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War. This suspense-filled narrative illuminates the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. 

Larson offers a gripping account of these chaotic months. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, he gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late. 

Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940–41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is in development at Disney Studios, and In the Garden of Beasts is in development with StudioCanal and Playtone. 

This event does not have a virtual option. 

Members Only

No

Member Tickets

$40 (includes a copy of "The Demon of Unrest")

Public Tickets

$43 (includes a copy of "The Demon of Unrest")

Women of the Wild explore: Body, Friendship, Love with guest of honor Colombe Schneck, in conversation with Merrit Tierce. In celebration of women words and voices.

On the programme:

5pm – 6pm: OPEN STAGE – readings about Body, Friendship, Love (in English, French, Spanish)
6:30pm – 8pm: CONVERSATION – Join us for an exclusive evening as we host French writer Colombe Schneck and Texan author Merrit Tierce. They will be in conversation with AF Director Emeline Colson (talk in Englush with a French touch).
8pm – 10 pm: MUSIC AND DANCE – DJ Female artists playlist

About the authors

Colombe Schneck, is an award-winning French writer with experience directing film documentaries, a background in journalism, and the author of twelve published novels. Schneck’s literary accomplishments have been recognized by many prestigious awards from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des Gens de Lettres. Schneck will be releasing a new book titled Swimming in Paris on May 14th 2024, four days prior to this event.

Born and raised in Texas, Merritt Tierce is an exceptional author whose literature has been recognized by the Whiting Foundation and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her most recent publication, Love me Back, was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for “Best First Published Fiction.” Tierce has a background in being an advocate for women’s rights, particularly in terms of abortion. Further, Tierce has experience screenwriting, and wrote for two seasons of the Netflix show, Orange is the New Black.

Join us for an enlightening evening with acclaimed writer Andrés Neuman as we delve into two of his remarkable books, “Once Upon Argentina” and “Sensitive Anatomy.” This special event will be moderated by Chad Post from Open Letter Publishing, offering a deep dive into Neuman’s diverse literary world.

“Sensitive Anatomy” explores our relationship with our bodies in an era dominated by digital manipulation and idealized images. Through thirty brief yet profound chapters, Neuman invites us to celebrate the body’s every aspect, challenging societal norms and embracing a more inclusive view of beauty. This work merges the poetic with the political, crafting a hedonistic journey across what truly makes us human.

“Once Upon Argentina” takes us on a different journey, blending autobiography with fiction in a narrative rich with the echoes of Argentina’s cultural and personal history. The story unfolds through a series of interconnected lives, revealing the intricate tapestry of immigrant identity and the poignant realities of Neuman’s homeland.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the intersections of identity, memory, and culture with one of Latin America’s most daring and insightful authors. Join us for a night of thoughtful discussion, literary exploration, and a celebration of Andrés Neuman’s contributions to contemporary literature.

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Build financial literacy, improve your money management skills, and make the dinero work for you!

In many immigrant households, money isn’t often a topic of discussion, so financial education can be minimal—especially when a family is just trying to survive the day-to-day. Despite being the largest minority group in the United States, the Latino community still faces cultural and systemic barriers that prevent them from building wealth. As a first-generation Latina, Jannese Torres, award-winning money expert, educator, and podcaster, knows these unique challenges well. She set out to pursue the traditional American Dream, becoming the first woman in her family to graduate from college, climb the corporate ladder, and secure the six-figure paycheck, only to find herself miserable and unfulfilled. She soon realized that everything she’d been taught about money and success wasn’t as it seemed. After discovering the true meaning of wealth, Torres resolved to pave her own path, leaving the life she was told she should want for one of entrepreneurship, autonomy, and financial freedom.
 
In Financially Lit! Torres offers you culturally relevant and relatable personal finance advice that will allow you to finally feel seen, heard, and understood. Whether it’s the guilt you feel from being the first person to “make it” while members of your family are still struggling, or the way financial trauma manifests itself in negative and limiting beliefs around money, Torres is here to guide you through it all.
 
With the warmth and no-nonsense wisdom of someone who’s been there before, Torres will teach you how to:

• set boundaries with your dinero

• protect yourself from financial abuse

• navigate the complicated relationship between amor and money

• invest like a white dude—or better!

 
With Financially Lit! at your side, you’ll harness the powerful ways money can be used to create the life of your dreams, and be empowered to step into financial freedom.
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jannese Torres is an award-winning Latina Money Expert, Educator, Speaker, Writer and Business Coach. She became an accidental entrepreneur after a job loss led her to create a successful Latin food blog, Delish D’Lites. She’s a wildly-successful serial entrepreneur who has built several 6-figure online businesses and achieved financial independence at age 35. Now, she teaches women of color how to identify their gifts and turn them into businesses that allow them to pursue financial freedom and independence.

Tuesday, May 14th, 6:00PM

Come join Melissa Cundieff and Rebecca Bernard for an afternoon of reading on the roof!

Melissa Cundieff received an MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and is a lecturer for the English department at Harvard. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in places such as Best of the Net, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Four Way Review, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, and Tongue: A Journal of Writing and Art. She has published a chapbook, Futures With Your Ghost.

Rebecca Bernard’s debut collection of stories won the 2021 Non/Fiction prize from The Journal and was published by Ohio State’s Mad Creek Books in August 2022. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Wigleaf, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Fiction from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work received notable mention in the Best American Short Stories of 2018. She is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Angelo State University.  She serves as a Fiction Editor for The Boiler.

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The first book in a laugh-out-loud early graphic novel series perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly! Quiet-loving Moose's life is turned upside down by free-wheeling Duck. The two will need to put their differences aside if they're ever going to be neighbors...or friends!

Moose loves peace and quiet, relaxing, living alone, and spring! He can't wait for the arrival of sun, flowers, and...a new neighbor?! Duck just landed himself a new home. He loves parties, karaoke, and living with—and on—Moose's head. Moose tries everything he can to send Duck away, but he soon finds that this persistent neighbor might just be the best thing spring could bring.

Filled with zany hijinks and slapstick humor, Kirk Reedstrom's Duck and Moose series showcases unlikely friendships and the power of compromise. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kirk Reedstrom has spent most of his adult life surrounded by books—he currently works for a public library system, and he used to be a bookseller at Blue Willow Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Houston, TX. He has led children’s art workshops at The Kimball Museum and interned with William Joyce at the Moonbot Studios. And he mixes all his past experiences with traditional and digital mediums to develop fun-filled characters with a little bit of mayhem. He enjoys creating books that make people laugh. Find out more about Kirk and his work at www.kirkreedstrom.com.

Saturday, May 11th, 2:00PM

This inspiring book, written by TIME 2021 Kid of the Year Orion Jean, invites readers to join in the kindness movement, because when we dream big and work together, we can change the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Orion Jean was named TIME Magazine’s 2021 Kid of the Year. His amazing accomplishments include donating over half a million books to children, collecting over 100,000 meals for the food insecure, and now he is the author of a second children’s book, Race to Kindness. Orion lives with his family in Mansfield, Texas.

Saturday, May 11th, 10:30AM

From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.

Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it "gathers itself over time to become whole," recovering the speaker's intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman's survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.

Come for an evening of poetry that ponders ideas around language, bodies (human bodies, geographic bodies, even fruiting bodies!), and self-definition. Stephanie Choi‘s debut collection, The Lengest Neoi (selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize) embraces and complicates what it means to err—to wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. Beginning with the collection’s title, which combines a colloquial Cantonese phrase (Leng Neoi / “Pretty Girl”) and the English suffix for the superlative degree (—est), these poems wander, deviate, and flow across bodies, geographies, and languages.

The event will also feature local poets Tarfia Faizullah, Katie Condon, and Samyak Shertok!

About the Author:

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the University of Utah. She is currently the poet-in-residence at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Iowa Press in 2024. Find her at xostephchoi.com.

About the book:

“The Lengest Neoi is a shock to the senses: reminding readers that to write and live through / amid/ between languages is to make new combinations of reality at every turn and that it is a chance to leave the ordinary dimensions of poetics / experience in the dust. Tech fails disconnect a grandmother from her granddaughter, and language play reveals a dramatic history of a family name. Poet Stephanie Choi, having connected body and mind through time and generations, mother tongues and lost lineages, can also make prismatic, melodic, gorgeous stories in emails, crossword puzzles, text chains, lists, and laments. This poet is wily, radical, fluidly ingenious with words, image, emotion. She has to be: there are so many ways to erase Asian American life / perspective / creations, to knock down each individual granddaughter, erase each artist. This poet reinscribes all with nuanced brilliance, photographic sensory memory, and fierce love. She must attend to what needs attention: fix the spine, fix the teeth, speech therapy to fix the impediment. The poet emerges with a voice that has no interest in being fixed: This poet can see from the perspective of her lineage/languages, can see much farther into the past, throw her voice far into the future.”—Brenda Shaughnessy, Judge, Iowa Poetry Prize

“This is an ambitious debut that brings together issues of language loss through assimilation and acculturation, the connection between race and disability, and issues of transcultural Asian and Asian American identity and representation. In a nation where the Asian individual is not always seen as a separate identity but a metonym for a larger nation and community, how does the second-generation Chinese American distinguish herself as a person with agency and particularity, even as she respects that her condition has been shaped by and fundamentally connected to larger historical forces? Likewise, how might a particular physical disability, such as a speech impediment, intersect with socially imagined and reinforced disabilities, such as racial or sexual difference? Formally playful, intellectually rich, Choi’s poems deftly explore these and other issues in devastating but also imaginatively playful forms that reveal the many identities a hyphenated self must inhabit and traverse.”—Paisley Rekdal, Author of Nightingale & West: A Translation (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award)

Eileen Myles will be reading from a "Working Life" (Grove Press) as well as sharing some unpublished new poems at Deep Vellum (3000 Commerce St) on Thursday, May 9th from 7PM-9PM — this is the only stop on the paperback tour for this collection!!

Paperback as well as hardcover copies will be available for purchase at the event, while supplies last. If you know you're going to want a copy of the book, we suggest choosing the ticket option that includes a copy of the book. If space allows, tickets will be available the night of the event at the door for $5.

A signing will follow the reading/Q&A at the storefront.

Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in Fall of 22. a “Working Life”, their newest collection of poems, is out now. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.

Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author’s Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, endearingly nostalgic novel picks up 50 years later for a folksy, character-driven portrayal of small-town life, split second decisions, and the ways family secrets reverberate through generations.

From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for readers of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Donna Everhart, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeannette Walls, and Rita Mae Brown…

“A vivid blend of sensorial writing, historical detail, and memorable characters await in this compelling, surprising, insightful story of the weight of long-held secrets and the resulting hunger for truth.” – Susan Meissner, USA Today bestselling author of Only the Beautiful

Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. It’s a town that sounds like roadkill and, in Daisy’s eyes, is every bit as dead. Sentenced to spend the summer living with her grandmother, the wry and irreverent town mortician, Daisy draws the line at working for the family business, Flowers Funeral Home. Instead, she maneuvers her way into an internship at the local newspaper where, sorting through the basement archives, she learns of a mysterious tragedy from fifty years earlier…

On a sweltering, terrible night in 1928, an explosion at the local dance hall left dozens of young people dead, shocking and scarring a town that still doesn’t know how or why it happened. Listed among the victims is a name that’s surprisingly familiar to Daisy, revealing an irresistible family connection to this long-ago accident.

Obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of that night, Daisy soon discovers Possum Flats holds a multitude of secrets for a small town. And hardly anyone who remembers the tragedy is happy to have some teenaged hippie asking questions about it – not the fire-and-brimstone preacher who found his calling that tragic night; not the fed-up police chief; not the mayor’s widow or his mistress; not even Daisy’s own grandmother, a woman who’s never been afraid to raise eyebrows in the past, whether it’s for something she’s worn, sworn, or done for a living.

Some secrets are guarded by the living, while others are kept by the dead, but as buried truths gradually come into the light, they’ll force a reckoning at last.

Inspired by the true story of the Bond Dance Hall explosion, a tragedy that took place in the author’s hometown of West Plains, Missouri on April 13, 1928.
The cause of the blast has never been determined.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michelle Collins Anderson grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. A graduate of the University of Missouri with a MFA from Warren Wilson College, she previously worked in advertising and public relations, taught elementary school creative writing, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri and Stephens College. She serves on the board of The Missouri Review and her short fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Literal Latté, Midwestern Gothic, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Bosque, The Lascaux Review, Pooled Ink, Storied Hills: An Anthology of Contemporary Ozark Fiction, and other publications. A mother of three, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and can be found online at MichelleAnderson.me.

Thursday, May 9th, 6:00PM

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman’s World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York’s famed library, but she has no idea their paths will converge in surprising ways across time.

Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janet Skeslien Charles is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Paris Library. Her work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She has spent a decade researching Jessie Carson (Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade) at The Morgan Library, the NYPL, and archives across France. Her shorter work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Sydney Morning Herald, LitHub, and the anthology Montana Noir. To connect, visit her website JSkeslienCharles.com, @JSkeslienCharles on Instagram, or @SkeslienCharles on Twitter.

Wednesday, May 8th, 6:00PM

"Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone and it doesn't have to be this way. In his book Learning to Disagree, John Inazu reveals a surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build new bridges with our neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones--and help us find better ways to live joyfully in a complex society."

John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches criminal law, law and religion, and various First Amendment courses. He writes and speaks frequently to general audiences about pluralism, free speech, religious freedom and other issues. John has written three books and published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, USA Today, Newsweek and CNN.

Whose Books is the partnering bookstore for the auhtor talk and will be onsite with books available to purchase. Registration available on Eventbrite and at clifftemple.org/learning.