Upcoming Events

7:30 pm, October 21: Glass Mountain Reading Series at Café Brasil (2604 Dunlavy Street) 

12:00 pm, October 22: Brown Bag Gallery Talk – Buildering: Misbehaving in the City featuring Cheryl Beckett, Peter Turchi, Dana Kroos and Jonathan Lopez (Blaffer Art Museum, 4173 Elgin Street)

7:00 pm, October 23: An evening with Valeria Luiselli (Faces in the Crowd) and Tiphanie Yanique (Land of Love and Drowning) at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:00 pm, October 24: Carmen Boullosa reads from Texas: The Great Theft at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:00 pm, October 27: Murray Farish reads from Inappropriate Behavior at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:00 pm, October 29: Smith Henderson reads from Fourth of July Creek at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:00 pm, October 30: Ligatures: Authors and Artists in Conversation featuring poets, translators, performing and visual artists, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennifer Scappettone, Autumn Knight, and Clarissa Tossin (Historic El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin St)

8:30 pm, October 30: Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Garnett Kilberg-Cohen, Smith Henderson, Peter Turchi (Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer Rd)

4:00 pm, November 4: UH Campus Visit: Discussion and Q&A with Alain Mabanckou (Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library)

7:00 pm, November 4: Peter Turchi reads from A Muse and a Maze at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:30 pm, November 5: Rice/UH Visiting Writers Series featuring Adrien Matejka (Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Boulevard)

6:30 pm, November 6: Gulf Coast Gala featuring Keynote Speakers Jen Hofer and John Pleuker

7:00 pm, November 7: Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Elizabeth Lyons, Talia Mailman, Caitlin Horrocks, and Luisa Muradyan (Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Drive)

7:30 pm, November 8: Kaboom Books presents Mike Young, Tyler Gobble, and Katie Condon (3116 Houston Avenue)

1:00 pm, November 10: UH Campus visit* with Michael Cunningham (Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library)

* Campus visits are made possible through Inprint. For more information please contact Giuseppe Taurino (gtaurino@uh.edu). Spaces are limited.

7:30 pm, November 10: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Michael Cunningham (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )

4:00 pm, November 11: UH Campus Visit: Discussion and Q&A with Ngugi Wa Thiong’ o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC, Irving (Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library)

5:30 pm, November 12, UH Poetry & Prose Reading Series featuring Ngugi Wa Thiong’ o and Peter Kimani (Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library)

7:00 pm, November 14: Erika Jo Brown reads from I’m Your Huckleberry at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

8:30 pm, November 20: Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Gulf Coast editors (Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer Rd)

7:00 pm, November 21: An evening of poetry with Malachi Black (Storm Toward Morning) and Roger Reeves (King Me) at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:30 pm, December 2: Glass Mountain Reading Series at Café Brasil (2604 Dunlavy Street) 

7:00 pm, January 14: Chang-rae Lee reads from On Such a Full Sea at Brazos Bookstore (2421 Bissonnet St)

7:00 pm, January 23: Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Carlos Hernandez, Katie Condon, and Jennifer Lowe (Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Drive)

1:00 pm, January 26: UH Campus visit* with Karen Russell (Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library)

* Campus visits are made possible through Inprint. For more information please contact Giuseppe Taurino (gtaurino@uh.edu). Spaces are limited.

7:30 pm, January 26: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Karen Russell (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )

7:00 pm, February 20: Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Rhianna Brandt, Erika Jo Brown, Noah Eli Gordon, and Laura Jok (Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Drive)

1:00 pm, February 23: UH Campus visit* Mary Szybist (Graduate Student Library, Roy G. Cullen Bldg.)

* Campus visits are made possible through Inprint. For more information please contact Giuseppe Taurino (gtaurino@uh.edu). Spaces are limited.

7:30 pm, February 23: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Mary Szybist & Kevin Young (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )

7:30 pm, March 23: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Kazuo Ishiguro (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )

7:00 pm, March 27: Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Jennifer McFarland & Sam Mansfield (Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Drive)

7:30 pm, April 20: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Cristina Henriquez & Marlon James (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )

7:00 pm, April 24: Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Karyna McGlynn, Sam Dinger, and David Tomas Martinez (Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Drive)

7:30 pm, May 11: Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series featuring Geoff Dyer (Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue )