Of course, tomorrow is the beginning of the Texas Book Festival, if anything else – to prove that some of us here in Texas do in fact read.
Here’s what events look good to me:
- Saturday
- 11:45 – 12:30: H.W. Brands, Lone Star Nation
Reading and Q&A introduced by Greg Curtis
Location: Auditorium - 12:30 – 1:30:
James Ellroy: Destination: Morgue!
Jessee Sublett: Never the Same Again
Reading and Q&A introduced by Kip Stratton
Location: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Main Hall - 12:45 – 1:30: Dayton Duncan, Lewis and Clark
Reading and Q&A introduced by Regan Gammon
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.028 - 2:00 – 3:00: What’s So Funny About Politics?
Jim Hightower, Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush
Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report
Panel discussion by Evan Smith
Location: House Chamber - 2:15 – 3:00: Men Behaving Badly:
Adam Johnson, Parasites Like Us
Kyle Smith, Love Monkey
Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir
Reading and panel discussion moderated by Neal Pollack
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.010 - 7:00 – 9:45: Texas Book Festival After Hours: Movies
Location: Alamo Drafthouse–Downtown –
Oscar-winner Peter Bogdanovich will introduce two of his favorite films: 7 p.m.: Targets & 9:45 p.m.: Saint Jack.
- 11:45 – 12:30: H.W. Brands, Lone Star Nation
- Sunday
- What’s Cooking in Texas
John DeMers, Houston: Culinary Capital
Fernando Saralegui, Our Latin Table
Linda Bauer, Historic Recipes from Texas and American Sampler Cookbook
Panel discussion moderated by Virginia Wood
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.014 - 12:30 – 1:15: Meghan Daum, The Quality of Life Report
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams
Reading and Q&A introduced by Mary Margaret Farabee
Location: Senate Chamber - 2:00 – 2:45: Mind of a Killer
Michael McGarrity, Slow Kill
David Lindsey, The Face of the Assassin
Reading and panel discussion moderated by Gary Lavergne
Location: House Chamber
- What’s Cooking in Texas