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SUMMARY:Book It! with Reza Aslan\, Ada Calhoun\, or Dean King
DESCRIPTION:Read about our Book It! authors; purchase seats below. \nReza Aslan\n \nReza Aslan is a leading expert in world religions\, a renowned writer\, professor\, and an Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award\, Aslan is the author of three internationally bestselling books\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller\, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His producing credits include the acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers. Aslan is the host and executive producer of two other original television programs: Rough Draft with Reza Aslan on Topic\, and CNN’s documentary series\, Believer. His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville. \nPhoto credit: Peter Konerko \n\nAda Calhoun\n \nAda Calhoun is the New York Times-bestselling author of Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara\, My Father\, and Me; Why We Can’t Sleep; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give; and St. Marks Is Dead. She has written for The New York Times\, New Republic\, and Washington Post. \n  \n  \nPhoto credit: Kathleen Hanna \n  \n\nDean King\n \nDean King is an award-winning author of 10 nonfiction books. His writing has appeared in Granta\, Garden & Gun\, National Geographic Adventure\, Outside\, Travel & Leisure\, New York Magazine\, and The New York Times. He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and is a producer of its nonfiction series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning. A world traveler and an internationally known speaker\, King has also appeared on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation\, ABC World News Tonight\, PBS American Experience\, BBC Radio\, and TEDx. He is a partner of Gum Street Productions\, which is currently developing a feature documentary for Netflix. His latest book\, Guardians of the Valley\, explores the life of legendary environmentalist John Muir and the eventual creation of Yosemite National Park. \nPhoto credit: Jessica King \n\nOnline Form – Book It! 2023
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-it-2023/
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SUMMARY:Book It! with Cristela Alonzo\, Sarah Bird\, Helen Ellis\, Beowulf Sheehan\, or Lawrence Wright
DESCRIPTION:Our Book It! authors have been revealed!\nHave you made your lunch plans for April 6? Why don’t you Book It! with a Festival author at Club Giraud? Book It! luncheons are an opportunity to sit down to an intimate lunch with a Festival author and eight companions. These luncheons are growing in popularity every year as more people discover what a special experience they are. \nFor the 7th annual SABF on April 6\, we are offering five opportunities to Book It! with a an author: Cristela Alonzo\, Sarah Bird\, Helen Ellis\, Beowulf Sheehan\, or Lawrence Wright. All funds raised from Book It! luncheons will benefit the San Antonio Book Festival. \n\nEvent Details\nBook It! individual seat $200\nBook It! table $1\,600 (seats 8 guests plus SABF author and moderator) \nSaturday\, April 6\nNoon – 1:00 PM\nClub Giraud\, 707 N. St. Mary’s \n\nRead about our Book It! authors; purchase seats below. \nCristela Alonzo\nCristela Alonzo made history in 2014 when she became the first Latina to create\, produce and star in her own network sitcom\, “Cristela” for ABC. During that same year\, she split her time between LA and NYC to serve as one of ABC’s favorite guest hosts on their hit daytime talk show\, “The View”. In 2017\, Cristela made history once again when she became the first Latina lead in a Disney Pixar film when she voiced the part of “Cruz Ramirez” in Cars 3. Her first hour stand-up special\, “Lower Classy” is currently streaming on Netflix. Cristela was born and raised on the Texas/Mexico border; her forthcoming memoir will be published by Atria Books in the fall of 2019. \n  \nSarah Bird\nSarah Bird’s previous novel\, Above the East China Sea\, was long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award. Sarah has been selected for the Meryl Streep Screenwriting Lab\, the B&N Discover Great Writers program\, NPR’s Moth Radio series\, the Texas Literary Hall of Fame\, and New York Libraries Books to Remember list. Her latest novel is titled Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen\, which is the compelling\, hidden story of Cathy Williams\, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. She first heard Cathy Williams’ story in the late seventies while researching African-American rodeos. \n \n  \nHelen Ellis\nHelen Ellis is the acclaimed author of Eating the Cheshire Cat\, the New York Times bestseller American Housewife\, and most recently\, Southern Lady Code. She is a poker player who competes on the national tournament circuit. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. \n \n \n  \nBeowulf Sheehan\nBeowulf Sheehan is a photographer of figures and performance in the arts\, entertainment\, and the humanities. Through 2018\, he has photographed better than 800 biographers\, journalists\, novelists\, poets\, and playwrights from more than 50 countries. That work has been published and exhibited internationally\, in the likes of Elle\, Esquire\, The New Yorker\, Newsweek\, Time\, Vanity Fair\, and Vogue and at the Museum of the City of New York\, Dostoevsky Museum\, International Center of Photography\, and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan is his first book.\n \n  \nLawrence Wright\nLawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of nine books of nonfiction\, including God Save Texas\, In the New World\, The Looming Tower\, Going Clear\, Thirteen Days in September\, and The Terror Years\, and one novel\, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes and honors\, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower (now a series on Hulu). He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He is a longtime resident of Austin\, Texas. \n \nOnline Form – Book It!
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LOCATION:Club Giraud\, 707 N. St. Mary's Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book It! Luncheons
DESCRIPTION:Our four Book It! authors have been revealed! \nBook It! Luncheons are an opportunity to sit down to an intimate lunch with a Festival author and eight companions. They’re based on the premise that everyone needs to eat while they’re at the Book Festival\, so why not dine with a Festival author?  \nFor the 6th annual SABF on April 7\, we will once again offer four Book It! Luncheons at the nearby Club Giraud. All funds raised from Book It! luncheons will benefit the San Antonio Book Festival.  \n\nEvent Details\nBook It! individual seat $150\nBook It! table $1\,500 (seats 10\, including SABF author and moderator) \nSpecial thanks to our media sponsor\, The Rivard Report \n \n\nRead about our Book It! authors; purchase seats below. \n \nFrancisco Cantú\nFrancisco Cantú served as an agent for the United States Border Patrol in the deserts of Arizona\, New Mexico\, and Texas from 2008 to 2012. A former Fulbright fellow\, he is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award. His essays and translations have been featured on This American Life and in Best American Essays\, Harper’s\, Guernica\, Orion\, n+1 and Ploughshares. He lives in Tucson\, Arizona. The Line Becomes a River will be published by Riverhead Books in February 2018. \n  \nElizabeth Crook\n \nElizabeth Crook has published five novels\, including The Night Journal\, which received the Spur Award from Western Writers of America\, Monday\, Monday\, winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from The Texas Institute of Letters\, and The Which Way Tree\, published recently by Little\, Brown and optioned for film by Robert Duvall and co-producers at Maverick Films LLC\, with Duvall to star. Elizabeth lives in Austin with her family.  \n  \n  \n  \nDavid Litt\n \nDavid Litt entered the White House in 2011 and left in 2016 as a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speechwriter. Described as the “comic muse for the president\,” David was the lead writer on four White House Correspondents’ Dinner presentations and has contributed jokes to President Obama’s speeches since 2009. He is currently the head writer/producer for Funny or Die’s office in Washington\, DC. David has also written for The Onion\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Cosmopolitan\, Vanity Fair\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times. He lives in Washington with his girlfriend and their two goldfish\, Humphrey and Camille. \n  \nLuis Alberto Urrea\n \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway\, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird’s Daughter\, Into the Beautiful North\, and Queen of America\, as well as the story collections The Water Museum\, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award\, an Edgar Award\, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother\, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nDisclaimer: Book It! purchases are non-refundable. In the event of a last-minute author cancellation\, SABF will notify Book It! seat holders and make every effort to find an alternate author. However\, no refunds will be issued for author cancellations. \n\n<a href=”https://sabookfest.formstack.com/forms/book_it_” title=”Online Form”>Online Form – Book It!</a>
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-it-2018/
LOCATION:Club Giraud\, 707 N. St. Mary's Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book It! Luncheons
DESCRIPTION:Book It! Luncheons are an opportunity to sit down to an intimate lunch with a Festival author and eight companions. They’re based on the premise that everyone needs to eat while they’re at the Book Festival\, so why not dine with a Festival author?  \nFor the 5th annual SABF\, we are offering four Book It! Luncheons at the nearby Club Giraud. All funds raised from Book It! luncheons will benefit the San Antonio Book Festival.  \nRead about our Book It! authors; purchase seats below. \n\nJessica Luther\nJessica Luther is an independent writer and investigative journalist living in Austin\, Texas. Her work on sports and culture has appeared in the Texas Observer and the Austin Chronicle\, and at Sports Illustrated\, Texas Monthly\, Vice Sports\, Guardian Sport\, and Bleacher Report. Luther’s work gained national attention in August 2015 when writing for Texas Monthly; she and Dan Solomon broke open the story about a Baylor football player on trial for sexual assault\, a case known by only a few in the community and not reported in the media for nearly two years. She is the author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct. \nAmor Towles\n \nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His first novel\, Rules of Civility\, published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. His second novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, published in 2016\, was also a New York Times bestseller and was named as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune\, The Washington Post\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. Both novels have been translated into over fifteen languages. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years\, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan\, where he lives with his wife and two children. \n  \nBill Wittliff\nBill Wittliff is a distinguished screenwriter and producer whose credits include Lonesome Dove\, The Perfect Storm\, The Black Stallion\, and Legends of the Fall\, among others. His fine art photography has been published in the books A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove\, La Vida Brinca\, and Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy. \nIn honor of his accomplishments\, he was awarded the Texas Medal of Arts in 2007. \n  \nAlexandra Zapruder\nAlexandra Zapruder began her career on the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. A graduate of Smith College\, she later earned her master’s degree in education at Harvard University. She is the author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. She also served as the guest curator for an exhibition of original diaries at Holocaust Museum Houston. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here\, a documentary film for young audiences based on Salvaged Pages\, which was awarded the Jewish Image Award for Best Television Special by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and was nominated for two Emmy awards. Alexandra has traveled around the country and spoken to thousands of teachers\, students\, and others about her work. \n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-it-2017/
LOCATION:Club Giraud\, 707 N. St. Mary's Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book It Luncheons
DESCRIPTION:Take a quick break to dine with a Festival author: New this year\, Book It Luncheons are an opportunity to sit down to an intimate lunch with a Festival author and eight companions. We are offering four Book It luncheons – one the day prior to the Festival at a private home and three on the day of the Festival at the nearby Club Giraud. Book It luncheons will be ticketed and all funds will benefit the San Antonio Book Festival. Luncheons will be held from Noon to 1:00 pm. \nFEATURED AUTHORS \nKate Bolick is the author of the New York Times bestseller Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own\, a contributing editor for The Atlantic\, and host of “Touchstones at The Mount\,” an annual literary interview series at Edith Wharton’s country estate in the Berkshires. Her writing also appears inCosmopolitan\, Elle\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and Vogue\, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. — THIS LUNCHEON IS SOLD OUT. \nH. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author\, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. \nSarah Bird of Austin\, Texas is the author of ten novels\, including Above the East China Sea and The Yokota Officers Club. She has been a columnist for Texas Monthly\, a storyteller for NPR’s Moth Radio Hour\, and a writer for the New York Times\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, Salon\, and the Daily Beast\, among others. \nSkip Hollandsworth has been a feature writer for Texas Monthly magazine for more than 25 years. In 2010\, he won the National Magazine Award for feature. With Richard Linklater\, he co-wrote the movie Bernie\, which was released in 2011. \nTHIS LUNCHEON IS SOLD OUT.
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