Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Tex., presented Lauren Hough (r.), author of Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America (Pantheon), in conversation with Keri Blakinger, author of Corrections in Ink (Griffin). They were joined by Hough's travel companion, Woody Guthrie (front). Oliver the Good Boy, part-time shopdog, photobombed the group picture.

