THE SLIP: A BIG TEXAS NOVEL

10:00 am - 10:45 am
| Location of Session: Launch SA Center
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 11:00 AM
| Signing Location: Adult Signing Tent

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About the Event

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing: The Slip by Lucas Schaefer. This Kirkus Prize Winner bobs, weaves, and levitates around a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, from 1998 to 2014, and this session will be a knockout.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Greg Marshall

Lucas Schaefer

Lucas Schaefer’s debut novel, The Slip, is the winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and is a national bestseller. He lives with his family in Austin.

Moderator

Isa Arsén

Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog.

Her work has been featured in Stone of Madness Press, The McNeese Review, and several independent anthologies and audiovisual projects. Her novels include Shoot the Moon (Putnam, 2023), and The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf (Putnam, 2025).

When not wrangling prose, Isa is a dialogue engineer & writer for interactive media.