The 2016 TBF will launch, as usual, with the First Edition Literary Gala, held this year on Fri., Nov. Scott Brownlee ( Requiem for Used Ignition Cap).įounder of the Texas Book Festival and former First Lady? Check! Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush Hager will discuss their new children's book, Our Great Big Backyard.Īnd that's not even taking into account the authors of crime fiction, memoirs, humor books, graphic novels, rock music biographies, film histories, art books, and so much more. Eileen Myles ( I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014) J. Stine ( Young Scrooge) Jon Scieszka ( Frank Einstein and the Evoblaster Belt) Lois Lowry ( Looking Back: A Book of Memories) Kwame Alexander ( Booked) NFL player Trevor Pryce ( Amphibians’ End: A Kulipari Novel). Diana Kennedy ( Nothing Fancy) Padma Lakshmi ( The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs) Marcus Samuelsson ( Red Rooster Cookbook). Along with "He Blinded Me With Science" icon Thomas Dolby ( The Speed of Sound), there's actress and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Jane Alexander ( Wild Things, Wild Places) Parks & Recreation star Nick Offerman ( Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at the Offerman Workshop) singer Kelly Clarkson ( River Rose and the Magical Lullaby) actress Maria Semple ( Today Will Be Different) Orange Is the New Black's Diane Guerrero ( In the Country We Love: My Family Divided). Titans of entertainment turned authors? Check. the President) investigative journalist Jessica Luther ( Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape). Austin's favorite New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright ( The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State) will be back plus, there's Texas true-crime specialist Skip Hollandsworth ( The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer) presidential biographer H.W.
For starters, try Emma Cline, author of one of the summer's hottest reads, The Girls former Austin Chronicle columnist Amy Gentry ( Good as Gone) and Yaa Gyasi, whose multigenerational saga of a family in Ghana has won wide acclaim ( Homegoing). Lincoln) and Houston-based horror master Justin Cronin ( The City of Mirrors). Boyle ( The Terranauts), Lone Star screenwriter and novelist Bill Wittliff ( The Devil's Backbone), Stephen Harrigan ( A Friend of Mr. Besides the previously mentioned DeLillo, who will discuss his latest, Zero K, in a conversation with local screenwriter and novelist Noah Hawley (the FX series Fargo, the new book Before the Fall), the festival will include T. 5 & 6 this year, the slate of attendees covers almost every kind of book people read. Zero K author Don DeLillo (Photo by Joyce Ravid)Īs is the norm for the Lone Star State's annual literary extravaganza, taking place Nov.
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