Book reading & signing: The Fifth Lash and Other Stories by Anis Shivani

Brazos Bookstore

06.13.13

Long-time Houston resident Anis Shivani's second story collection, The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, was just long listed for the 2013 Frank O'Connor international short story award. His ot

Inprint's Young Professionals Mixer "Books & Bellinis"

Birraporetti's

04.22.13

"Books & Bellinis: Inprint's Young Professionals Mixer" is an annual event for book loving Houstonians featuring drinks, savory appetizers and giveaways. New York Times bestsellin

Book launch, signing and discussion: Desolation Row Kay Kendall

04.27.13

Meet author Kay Kendall and discuss her compelling mystery that depicts the turbulent lives of Vietnam draft-resisters.

Book launch party: The Piper's Story: A Tale of War, Music and the Supernatural by Wendy Isaac Bergin

04.20.13

What might a clairvoyant see in wartime?  In May of 1940, Scottish piper Ian MacGregor's visions lead to a devastating encounter with a supernatural being. Blinded and left for dead by his

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: Amber Dermont & Jesmyn Ward

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

03.25.13

Inprint presents an evening of great fiction with Amber Dermont and National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward as part of the 2012-2013 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Amber Dermont, a

French Cultures Festival: Murder below Montparnasse book signing with Cara Black

03.07.13

Cara Black is a bestselling American mystery writer who is best known for her Aimée Léduc mystery series that feature a female private investigator in Paris. Well known for getting he

Books & Conversations: Shih Shu-Ching: City of the Queen

Asia Society Texas Center

12.09.12

From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of c

Cool Brains

The mother of Hunger Games disaster lit laments the loss of imagination: Lois Lowry unplugged

By Tarra Gaines

10.14.12 | 6:48 am

What would people give up if they could achieve a society without poverty, hate, war, or crime? Would the loss of music, colors, love, choice and memories, both lovely and horrific, be worth living ...

Asia Society Texas Center Lecture: The Entrepreneurial Instinct with Monica Mehta

Asia Society Texas Center

10.23.12

Monica Mehta's latest book, The Entrepreneurial Instinct, looks past the rags to riches stories of self-made entrepreneurs to explore how the mind, behavior and brain chemistry impact ability t

Author talk & book signing: The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

08.23.12

Author Katherine Howe (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane), who grew up in Houston, returns with her latest historical novel. The House of Velvet and Glass is set in 1915 Boston, where a grieving