Grunge and Ocean Air

Eat, drink read: Seattle getaway offers refreshing change of place

By Sofia Sokolove

03.16.14 | 5:00 pm

Our latest favorite city to lust after? Seattle. It's a long plane ride away to the so-called Emerald City, but the northwest jewel offers a refreshing getaway for Texans looking for a change o ...

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: Anne Carson

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

04.28.14

Inprint presents an evening with renowned poet Anne Carson as part of the 2013/14 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Carson will give a reading from her work followed by a book sale

Authors & Asia Young Readers Edition: Astronaut Kalpana Chawla: Reaching for the Stars by Ai-Ling Louie

Asia Society Texas Center

03.08.14

Kalpana Chawla, born in northern India, achieved notoriety by becoming both the first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space. Her connections to Texas include a degree in aerospa

XII Hispanic Book Festival of Houston

04.27.14

The XII Hispanic Book Festival of Houston brings approximate one hundred writers, poets, artists and art lovers as well as college students and students from primary and secondary schools. Artists

Greater Houston Teen Book Convention: TeenBookCon 2014

04.26.14

Join keynote speaker Laurie Halse Anderson, closing speaker Matt de la Pena plus 26 additional critically acclaimed young adult fiction authors and graphic novelists at the fifth annual TeenBookCon

Calendar Closeup

Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — including the book sale of all book sales

By Joel Luks

01.22.14 | 12:54 pm

How does a week that includes a mega book sale, a cultural film festival, a concert with Cuban soul, an outdoor shopping fete and a performance that shows off local movers and shakers sound to you? ...

Book signing and reading: Laurent Binet

Brazos Bookstore

11.23.13

Join for a conversation with French award-winning author Laurent Binet at Brazos Bookstore. Along with Robert Cremins, professor at the University of Houston's Honors College, Binet will d

Books in Conversation series: Amy Tan's The Valley of Amazement

Asia Society Texas Center

12.16.13

The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shroude

Books in Conversation series: Dipak Basu in Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Asia Society Texas Center

12.08.13

Mission to Teach, released in May 2013, is the memoir of a courageous young woman who took on American science education reform against deeply established practices. She suffered several tragedies

Books in Conversation: Jung Chang in Conversation with Anne Chao

Asia Society Texas Center

11.17.13

Internationally known for the bestselling Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang has returned with her first book in eight years. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern