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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Cheryl W. Thompson
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URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-cheryl-w-thompson/
LOCATION:Malú and Carlos Alvarez Theater and Studio\, 321 W. Commerce St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast: Salman Rushdie
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/salman-rushdie/
LOCATION:Tobin Center for the Performing Arts\, H-E-B Performance Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Eve L. Ewing
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR \n \nEve L. Ewing is a writer\, scholar\, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: Electric Arches\, 1919\, Ghosts in the Schoolyard\, and Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks and has written several projects for Marvel Comics. \nEwing is an associate professor in the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, and many other venues.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/eve-ewing/
LOCATION:Texas Public Radio\, 321 W Commerce St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:SPOTLIGHT: Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford\, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”\, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112. After working as an investment professional for over twenty years he now devotes himself full time to writing. His novels have collectively sold more than six million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. Mr. Towles is the 2023 recipient of the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. \nTowles’ new book is a collection of short stories titled Table for Two. An immediate bestseller\, the New York Times called it “a winner\,” and the Star Tribune said “[his] new book could be his best yet.” \nTowles’ first novel\, Rules of Civility\, which was 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. The book has been translated into over 15 languages\, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012\, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film. \nTowles’ second novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, which was published in 2016\, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune\, the Washington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. The book has been translated into over thirty-five languages including Russian. An eight episode series starring Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead premiered on Paramount+/Showtime with the Guardian calling it “handsome and charming” and the Hollywood Reporter praising its “claustrophobic sumptuousness”.   \nTowles’ third novel\, The Lincoln Highway\, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list\, and was a Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick\, one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021\, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021\, was #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year\, and was one of Bill Gates’ “5 great books for the summer.”  The Lincoln Highway will be made into a movie adapted and directed by Christopher Storer for Warner Brothers. \nTowles is the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination\, part of Amazon’s Forward collection. He also edited and wrote the introduction for The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (Mysterious Press/Penzler Publishers\, September 19\, 2023). He will be guest editor for The Best Short Stories 2024 (Vintage\, September 10\, 2024). \nAmor Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. \n\n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/amor-towles/
LOCATION:Charline McCombs Empire Theatre\, 224 E. Houston Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spotlight
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Paola Ramos
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPhoto credit: Samantha Bloom\nPaola Ramos is an author and Emmy-Award winning journalist. She is a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC\, where she is the host of “Field Report.” Ramos is a former correspondent for Vice News. Prior to her career in journalism\, Ramos was the Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign\, a political appointee during the Obama Administration\, and served in President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. She is also a former Hauser Leader in the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School\, where she received her Master’s in Public Policy\, and recently joined the board of trustees of her alma mater\, Barnard College. She is the author of Finding Latin-X: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity. Ramos was born in Miami to Cuban and Mexican parents\, grew up in Madrid\, and currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\nLaura Garcia is the managing editor at the San Antonio Report. A former evening news editor at The Texas Tribune\, Garcia previously reported on the business of health care at the San Antonio Express-News and has bylines at the Victoria Advocate\, The Roanoke Times\, Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the Longview News-Journal\, as well as The Ranger at San Antonio College. She graduated from Texas State University. Garcia is a past president of the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists and is a regional coordinator (Texas/Oklahoma) for the Society of Professional Journalists. \n\n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/paola-ramos/
LOCATION:Texas Public Radio\, 321 W Commerce St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast: Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR TABLE SPONSORS
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/abraham-verghese/
LOCATION:The Witte Museum Mays Family Center\, 3801 Broadway Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Michele Norris
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR\n \nMichele Norris has earned several honors over a long career\, including Peabody\, Emmy\, Dupont\, and Goldsmith awards. She is a columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section and from 2002 to 2012 she was a cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered. Norris is also the founding director of The Race Card Project\, a Peabody Award–winning narrative archive where people around the world share their reflections on identity—in just 6-words. Her first book\, The Grace of Silence\, was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and The Kansas City Star. Before joining NPR\, Norris spent almost ten years as a reporter for ABC News covering politics\, policy\, and the dynamics of social change. Early in her career\, she also worked as a staff writer for The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nPhoto credit: Eli Turner Photography \n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\nDr. Eric Castillo (he/him/él) is a second-generation Xicano from Yanaguana/San Antonio\, Tejas\, a social justice practitioner\, and a scholar helping to create a just\, compassionate\, and liberated world. He serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts\, Culture\, and Community Impact with the Alamo Community Colleges District.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/michele-norris/
LOCATION:Carver Community Cultural Center\, 226 N. Hackberry St.\, San Antonio\, 78202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Luis Alberto Urrea
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR & MODERATOR\nLuis Alberto Urrea\, © JP Calubaquib\nHailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart\,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love\, loss and triumph. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway\, now in its thirty-fourth paperback printing\, Urrea is the author of numerous other works of nonfiction\, poetry\, and fiction\, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The House of Broken Angels\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award\, among many other honors\, he lives outside Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago. \n  \n\n \n \n \nYvette Benavides is a professor of English and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. She hosts the Texas Public Radio podcasts “Book Public” and “The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner.” She is an editor-at-large with Trinity University Press. She co-authored the book San Antonio 365: On This Day in History with David Martin Davies. She is proud to be a founding member of the advisory board of the San Antonio Book Festival.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/goodnightirene/
LOCATION:Malú and Carlos Alvarez Theater and Studio\, 321 W. Commerce St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with John Paul Brammer
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URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/hola-papi/
LOCATION:Scobee Education Center & Planetarium\, 1198 San Pedro Avenue\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:New Friday Night Event: Lit Happens
DESCRIPTION:About Literary Death Match \nPart literary event\, part comedy show\, part game show\, Literary Death Match brings together four writers to compete in an edge-of-your-seat read-off critiqued by three judges. The performance is concluded by a slapstick showdown to decide the ultimate champion.  \nAdrian Todd Zuniga is the host/creator of Literary Death Match and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. He has been featured in Gopher Illustrated and Stymie\, and online at Lost Magazine and McSweeney’s. He lives between Los Angeles and London. \n\nParking & Map\nLit Happens takes place at three different venues but they are all walking distance from each other. Legacy Park is only 0.1 miles from Texas Public Radio. There are plenty of paid parking options nearby…plus Lit Happens is FREE!
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/lit-happens-2023/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Lit Happens
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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/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Book It! Luncheons
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast: James McBride
DESCRIPTION:TABLE SPONSOR LEVELS\nPEN/Faulkner Sponsor ($2\,500)\n– One (1) table for ten guests\n– Sponsor recognition on event program (time permitting) and website\n– Complimentary valet parking for all guests \nNational Book Award Sponsor ($5\,000)\n– Everything included in the PEN/Faulkner Sponsor level\n– Two (2) tickets to the private Epilogue author party Saturday evening following the 11th annual Book Festival on April 15\, 2023 \nPulitzer Sponsor ($10\,000)\n– Everything included in the National Book Award Sponsor level\n– Private reception with James McBride prior to the program for ten (10) guests \n– Two (2) tickets to the private Author Breakfast on Saturday morning before the 11th annual Book Festival on April 15\, 2023  \nKirkus Prize Sponsor ($15\,000)\n– Everything included in the Pulitzer Sponsor level\n– Invitation for two (2) to private receptions at year-round SABF events\n– Two (2) VIP passes to the 11th annual Book Festival\, including reserved seating at all venues\, access to the VIP room\, and VIP parking \nNobel Sponsor ($25\,000)\n– Everything included in the Kirkus Prize Sponsor level\n– Two (2) tickets to a Book It! luncheon with a featured author on Friday\, April 14\, 2023\n– Recognition as Major Sponsors of the 11th annual San Antonio Book Festival
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/james-mcbride/
LOCATION:The Witte Museum Mays Family Center\, 3801 Broadway Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Danielle Prescod
DESCRIPTION:About the Author & Moderator\nDanielle Prescod\nDanielle Prescod is a fifteen-year veteran of the beauty and fashion industry and graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. A lifelong fashion obsessive\, she was most recently the style director of BET.com. With Chrissy Rutherford\, Danielle cofounded 2BG Consulting\, which aids fashion and beauty brands and influencers on their anti-racism journeys. She dedicates her time to researching how feminism and social justice intersect with pop culture. An avid reader and writer\, Danielle also loves TikTok\, the arts\, staying active\, horseback riding\, and exercising at any hour of the day. \n  \nCynthia Freeman Gibbs\nCynthia Freeman Gibbs is a writer based in San Antonio\, Texas and a native of Lansing\, Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and her MBA from Florida A&M University. Her writing career began in 2016 after twenty-two years spent in Corporate America working at various Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies. Cynthia has written two books in her Dr. Olivia C. Maxwell novel series. She co-authored Writing Is Essential which was published by United Black Writers Association in 2019. Currently\, Cynthia is working on a screenplay for an educational film. \n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/token-black-girl/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:GET LIT with Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHOR & MODERATOR\nJavier Zamora. Photo credit: Gerardo del Valle\nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was a year old\, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection\, Unaccompanied\, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. \nRobert Rivard\nRobert Rivard is the founder of the nonprofit San Antonio Report\, and previously served as the longtime editor of the San Antonio Express-News and as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at Newsweek magazine. He also is the author of the nonfiction book\, Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True\, about the disappearance and murder of Express-News Mexico correspondent Philip True in the Sierra Madre in 1998. \n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/solito/
LOCATION:Alamo Colleges District Boardroom\, 2222 N. Alamo Street\, San Antonio\, 78215
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220519T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220519T130000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20220320T212021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T185507Z
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast: Susan Orlean
DESCRIPTION:TABLE SPONSOR LEVELS\nPEN/Faulkner Sponsor ($2\,500)\n– One (1) table for ten guests\n– Sponsor recognition on event program (time permitting) and website \nNational Book Award Sponsor ($5\,000)\n– Everything included in the PEN/Faulkner Sponsor level\n– Two (2) tickets to the private “Esquire Tavern Epilogue” author party Saturday evening following the 10th annual Book Festival on May 21\, 2022 \nPulitzer Sponsor ($10\,000)\n– Everything included in the National Book Award Sponsor level\n– Private reception with Susan Orlean prior to the program for ten (10) guests \n– Two (2) tickets to the private Author Breakfast on Saturday morning before the 10th annual Book Festival on May 21\, 2022  \nKirkus Prize Sponsor ($15\,000)\n– Everything included in the Pulitzer Sponsor level\n– Two (2) VIP passes to the 10th annual Book Festival\, including reserved seating at all venues\, access to the VIP room\, and VIP parking \nNobel Sponsor ($25\,000)\n– Everything included in the Kirkus Prize Sponsor level\n– Recognition as Major Sponsors of the 10th annual San Antonio Book Festival
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/susan-orlean/
LOCATION:The Witte Museum Mays Family Center\, 3801 Broadway Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20211026T030840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T142606Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT at the Greenline at Brooks
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE AUTHORS & MODERATOR\n \nBryan Burrough is the author of six books\, including The Big Rich\, Days of Rage\, Public Enemies\, and the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Barbarians at the Gate. \nChris Tomlinson is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News and the author of the New York Times-bestselling Tomlinson Hill about his family’s slave-owning history in Texas. From 1995-2007\, he reported from more than 30 countries and nine wars for the Associated Press. \nJason Stanford is a writer whose bylines have appeared in Texas Monthly\, the Austin-American Statesman\, the Los Angeles Times\, MSNBC\, the Texas Tribune\, and Texas Highways. The former communications director for Austin Mayor Steve Adler\, Stanford previously worked as a political consultant and helped elect or re-elect more than 30 members of Congress. He now publishes a weekly newsletter called The Experiment. \nSarah Zenaida Gould\nSarah Zenaida Gould\, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute\, a project to collect and disseminate Mexican American civil rights history. A longtime public historian\, she has curated over a dozen exhibits on history\, art\, and culture\, and was formerly founding director of the Museo del Westside and lead curatorial researcher at the Institute of Texan Cultures. She received a BA in American Studies from Smith College and an MA and PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. She is a former fellow at the National Museum of American History\, the Winterthur Museum\, and the American Antiquarian Society.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/forget-the-alamo/
LOCATION:The Greenline at Brooks\, 2532 Sidney Brooks\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78235\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T130000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20191014T183504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T144239Z
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast: Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:OUR SIGNATURE LUNCHEON IS NOW A VIRTUAL EVENT TAKING PLACE ON APRIL 8\, 2021. ALL TABLE SPONSORS HAVE BEEN CONTACTED. IF YOU NEED TO REACH US REGARDING YOUR TABLE PURCHASE\, EMAIL MARITZA CIRLOS.\n\nThe Book Festival is proud to present its annual Literary Feast: the Book Appétit luncheon featuring novelist AMOR TOWLES. Don’t miss this special opportunity for an exclusive sneak peek into Towles’ forthcoming new novel\, The Lincoln Highway\, which will be released this fall. The singular fundraiser for the Book Festival\, the 2021 Book Appétit luncheon will be held virtually for the safety of everyone involved. \nAll our Book Appétit guests will receive book-themed goodie bags\, furthering the Book Festival’s mission to celebrate literary culture. To thank everyone for their patience (you’ve waited a whole year!)\, we are also extending complimentary admission to one of our ticketed Book Festival sessions and a free\, signed copy of one of the books featured in this year’s Festival (options are pre-selected by staff). \nSPECIAL THANKS: \nHonorary Co-Chairs: Connie & Sandy McNab // Lyn & Pete Selig \nEvent Committee: Cynthia & Taylor Collins • Catherine & Craig Comeaux • Georgia Erck • Katy & Ted Flato • Liecie & Nick Hollis • Sherry & Ed Layman • Belinda & Will Nixon •  Angela & Trey Rabke • Josie & Frates Seeligson • Amy Stieren Smiley • Shannon & David Stephens • Burgin Streetman • Laura Morris Walls \n\nAbout Amor Towles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmor Towles\, © Bill Hayes\nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. \nHis first novel\, Rules of Civility\, which was 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. The book has been translated into over 15 languages\, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. \nMr. Towles’s second novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, which was published in 2016\, has been on The New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune\, The Washington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. In the summer of 2017\, the novel was optioned by EOne and the British director\, Tom Harper\, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries. \n\n\n\n\nHaving 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\n\n\n\n\nPurchase a ticket to join us.\nOnline Form – Book Appetit Literary Feast 2021 – Individual Ticket
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-appetit-literary-feast-2021/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL EVENT
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Antonio Book Festival":MAILTO:sabf@sabookfest.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20201125T035519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T230246Z
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SUMMARY:PIE Bake Along with Erin Jeanne McDowell
DESCRIPTION:*Photography © 2020 by Mark Weinberg. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/pie-bake-along-with-erin-jeanne-mcdowell/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL EVENT
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Antonio Book Festival":MAILTO:sabf@sabookfest.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20201105T211513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T172344Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit: Brit Bennett in conversation with Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Jason Reynolds\, © James J. Reddington\nAbout the moderator: Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author\, a Newbery Award Honoree\, a Printz Award Honoree\, a two-time National Book Award finalist\, a Kirkus Award winner\, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner\, an NAACP Image Award Winner\, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. Reynolds is also the 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include When I Was the Greatest\, The Boy in the Black Suit\, All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely)\, As Brave as You\, For Every One\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Look Both Ways\, and Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington\, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-brit-bennett/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL EVENT
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20200803T015321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T192259Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit with Maria Hinojosa
DESCRIPTION:Diane Guerrero\, © Jeffrey Mosier\nAbout the moderator: Diane Guerrero appeared on the hit shows Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin. She was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S.\, she was able to remain in the country and continue her education\, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself\, without the support system of her family. She has written about her family in the Los Angeles Times and her book In the Country We Love\, and she has appeared on CNN to discuss immigration issues. She also volunteers with the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Resource Center. She lives in New York City. \n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-maria-hinojosa/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL EVENT
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200820T193000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20200807T165658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T203541Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Sheryl Sculley
DESCRIPTION:The San Antonio Public Library\, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation\, and the San Antonio Book Festival proudly presented A Conversation with SHERYL SCULLEY\, featuring the former City Manager’s new book\, Greedy Bastards: One City’s Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis. Former City Council member Rey Saldaña moderated the event. \nHow to get a copy of the book: Books are available to check out from the San Antonio Public Library. You can also purchase a signed copy from The Twig Book Shop. Proceeds from book sales support the San Antonio Public Library and the San Antonio Book Festival.  \n[maxbutton id=”11″ ]  \n\n \nAbout the author: Sheryl Sculley is an award-winning city manager who is considered an authority on city management. She gained national attention for dealing with unsustainable benefits for San Antonio’s police and fire unions—and in doing so\, steered the city away from a future financial crisis. \nDuring her tenure\, San Antonio achieved a AAA bond rating and invested billions of dollars into critical infrastructure updates and additions. Prior to serving in San Antonio\, Sculley was the assistant city manager in Phoenix and city manager of Kalamazoo\, Michigan. \nSculley is a life member of the International City Management Association and a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration. After 45 years of public service\, Sculley retired from city management in 2019. \nAbout the book: When Sheryl Sculley was recruited to serve as San Antonio’s new city manager in 2005\, the organization she inherited was a disorganized mess. City infrastructure was crumbling\, strong financial policies and systems were nonexistent\, many executive positions were vacant\, public satisfaction was low\, ethical standards were weak\, and public safety union salaries and benefits were outpacing revenues\, crowding out other essential city services. Simply put: San Antonio was on the verge of collapse. \nGreedy Bastards tells the story of Sheryl and her new team’s uphill battle to turn around San Antonio city government. She takes you behind closed doors to share the hard changes she made and the strategies she used to create mutually beneficial solutions to the city’s biggest problems. \nMany of the issues Sheryl found in San Antonio are present in cities across the US. Packed with wins and losses\, lessons learned\, and pitfalls encountered\, Greedy Bastards is a guidebook for any city official tasked with turning around a struggling city. \n \n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/a-conversation-with-sheryl-sculley/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL EVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200205T193000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20200113T211926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T214952Z
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SUMMARY:LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY for the 8TH ANNUAL SABF
DESCRIPTION:Be the first to hear the full author lineup for the 8th annual San Antonio Book Festival! You’ll learn which authors are coming to the Festival on April 4\, get the behind-the-scenes scoop on building the lineup from our Literary Director\, and be able to purchase your books so you can start reading your faves!  \nThe lineup announcement party is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Ride sharing is encouraged (Uber\, Lyft\, etc.). There is some first-come\, first-served parking available at SAY Sí\, as well as street parking. Parking is also available at Blue Star across the street or at the COSA Development Services Dept lot at 1920 S. Alamo. \nPLUS we’ll reveal our NEW Friday night event for Book Festival weekend and unveil our 2020 Fiesta medal\, exclusively available to Book Festival Members. Anyone who signs up to become a Member for the 2020 Festival will be entered to win a $100 Barnes & Noble gift card. *Must be present on February 5 to win.* \nSign up to become a Festival Member here.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/lineup-reveal-2020/
LOCATION:Say Sí\, 1518 S. Alamo Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191015T190000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20190903T044705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T203248Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit with Stephen Harrigan
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with THE ALAMO\, the San Antonio Book Festival proudly presents GET LIT with Stephen Harrigan\, New York Times best-selling author of Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas. Harrigan will be joined in conversation by Clay Smith\, SABF’s Literary Director. \nWritten in fast-paced prose\, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place\, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes\, it is a big book about a big subject\, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious\, gruesome\, epically sprawling story of Texas. \nEvent Details:\n4:30 PM Book sales & signing\n6:00 PM Conversation \n7:00 PM Book sales & signing\nFree & open to the public – PLEASE RESERVE YOUR TICKETS BELOW \nGet TicketsBuy Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n \n\nStephen Harrigan© Kenny Braun\nAbout the author: Stephen Harrigan was born in Oklahoma City in 1948 and has lived in Texas since the age of five\, growing up in Abilene and Corpus Christi. He is the author of 11 books of fiction and non-fiction\, including The Gates of the Alamo\, which became a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book\, and received a number of awards. Harrigan is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly\, and his articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of other publications as well\, including The Atlantic\, Outside\, The New York Times Book Review\, The Wall Street Journal\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Audubon\, Travel Holiday\, Life\, American History\, National Geographic and Slate. A 1970 graduate of the University of Texas\, Harrigan lives in Austin\, where for twenty years he taught at UT’s James A. Michener Center for Writers. He is the recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writers Award\, the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters\, the Texas Medal of Arts award from the Texas Cultural Trust\, and has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Stephen Harrigan and his wife Sue Ellen have three daughters and six grandchildren. \nAbout the book: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood\, invasion and war\, boom and bust\, and the myriad peoples who\, over centuries of conflict\, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. \nBig Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research\, New York Times-bestselling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas\, including Spanish explorers\, American filibusters\, Comanche warriors\, wildcatters\, Tejano activists\, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation\, not just a state\, but an indelible idea. \n  \n\n\n
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-stephen-harrigan/
LOCATION:The Alamo\, 300 Alamo Plaza\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190407T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20190307T053941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T203022Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit with Susan Page
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Trinity University Press\, the San Antonio Book Festival proudly presents GET LIT with Susan Page\, Washington Bureau Chief of USA Today and the author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. Page will be joined in conversation by Karen Tumulty\, political columnist for The Washington Post. \nBarbara Pierce Bush was one of the country’s most popular and powerful figures\, yet her full story has never been told…until now\, with this vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush\, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. \nEvent Details:\n6:00 PM Program\n7:00 PM Book signing\nTicket Price $30 (includes a copy of The Matriarch) \n \n\n \n  \nSPECIAL  THANKS  TO  OUR  SPONSORSPLUS CAPPY & SUZY LAWTON \n\n  \nSusan Page by Robert Deutsch\nAbout the author: Susan Page is the award-winning Washington Bureau chief of USA Today\, where she writes about politics and the White House. Susan has covered six White House administrations and ten presidential elections. She has interviewed the past nine presidents and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. (She interviewed Nixon\, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter after they had left the White House.) She has appeared as an analyst on the PBS NewsHour\, CBS’ Face the Nation\, Fox News Sunday\, NBC’s Meet the Press\, CNN’s State of the Union\, CBS This Morning and other TV and radio programs. She lives in Washington\, D.C. \nAbout the book: THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. This biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members\, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life\, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. THE MATRIARCH examines not only her public persona but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As a girl in Rye\, New York\, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother\, barbs that left lifelong scars. As a young wife\, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia\, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age\, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide. And as first the wife and then the mother of American presidents\, she made history as the only woman to see — and advise — both her husband and son in the Oval Office. \nAs with many women of her era\, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated\, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved First Lady. She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America\, played a critical role in the end of the Cold War\, and led the way in demonstrating love and compassion to those with HIV/AIDS. With her cooperation\, this book offers Barbara Bush’s last words for history — on the evolution of her party\, on the role of women\, on Donald Trump\, and on her family’s legacy.\n\n\nAbout the moderator: Karen Tumulty is a columnist for The Washington Post. In her previous role as a national political correspondent for the newspaper\, she received the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. She joined The Post in 2010 from Time magazine\, where she had held the same title. During her more than 15 years at Time\, Tumulty wrote or co-wrote more than three dozen cover stories. Tumulty is a native of San Antonio\, where she began her career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light. Tumulty holds a bachelor of journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard Business School. \n\n\nBuy Tickets
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-susan-page/
LOCATION:Trinity University Chapman Center\, Great Hall\, E Rosewood Avenue\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78212
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190406T130000
DTSTAMP:20260826T211935
CREATED:20190310T182546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190317T173412Z
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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!
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-it/
LOCATION:Club Giraud\, 707 N. St. Mary's Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book It! Luncheons
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SUMMARY:7th annual San Antonio Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:It’s our 7th anniversary\, and we are working hard on the 2019 Book Festival—bigger\, better and more bookish than ever! \nCentral Library & Southwest School of Art\n600 Soledad St\nSan Antonio\, TX 78205
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/7th-annual-san-antonio-book-festival/
LOCATION:Central Library & Southwest School of Art\, 600 Soledad St\, San Antonio\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Moth Mainstage 2019
DESCRIPTION:Tickets available via Ticketmaster and the Majestic Theatre box office on Friday\, February 22.\nFor the third year in a row\, SABF is proud to bring The Moth Mainstage to San Antonio as part of Book Festival weekend. Stories are important—whether they’re told in books\, like those presented at the Book Festival\, or in the age-old tradition of true stories told live. Stories are what unite us. Come join us at the Majestic Theatre on FRIDAY\, APRIL 5\, for a memorable night of storytelling. The theme of the night will be “Occasional Magic.”  \nThe Moth is an international storytelling show that features five storytellers on stage\, without notes\, sharing a true and authentic story from their personal experiences. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme\, and the storytellers explore it\, often in unexpected ways. The shows dance between documentary and theater\, creating a unique\, intimate\, and often enlightening experience for the audience. \n\nEvent Details\n6:00 p.m. Doors open to the public\n7:00 p.m. Program begins\n9:30 p.m. VIP party at Hotel Valencia with Moth storytellers and producers\, SABF authors\, and complimentary food and drink (requires VIP ticket) \nTicket pricing\nGeneral Seating $25-$45\nVIP Seating $100 (includes premier seating + admission to VIP party) \nAudience and Age\nAge requirement 16+
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/the-moth-2019/
LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 224 E. Houston St.\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Moth
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SUMMARY:Book Appétit Literary Feast
DESCRIPTION:The Book Festival is proud to present its annual Literary Feast: the Book Appétit luncheon\, featuring historian RON CHERNOW. Don’t miss this special opportunity. The singular fundraiser for the Book Festival\, the 2019 Book Appétit luncheon will be held at the Witte Museum’s Mays Family Center. \nPLUS! Enter our special raffle to win FOUR premium tickets to see “Hamilton” at the Majestic Theatre in May!\nSpecial thanks \nLiterary Feast Underwriters: Anne & Chuck Parrish\, Ann & Chico Newman\, and Katy & Ted Flato \nHonorary Co-Chairs: Anne & Chuck Parrish \nEvent Co-Chairs: Katy Flato and Marcia Logan \nEvent Committee: Wendy Atwell\, Catherine & Craig Comeaux\, Tisha Cortines\, Stephanie & Cris Eugster\, Liecie & Nick Hollis\, Bradley Kayser\, Gemma Kennedy\, Sherry & Ed Layman\, Angela Rabke\, Josie & Frates Seeligson\, Lyn & Pete Selig\, Stephanie & Banks Smith\, Shannon & David Stephens\, Burgin Streetman\, Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran\, Laura Morris Walls\, and Richey Wyatt \nRaffle donors: Las Casas Foundation and Saks Fifth Avenue \nUPDATE: This event is sold out. We’ll see you April 5th!\n\nAbout Ron Chernow\nAn honors graduate of Yale College and The University of Cambridge\, Ron Chernow is one of the most distinguished commentators on history\, politics\, and business in America today. He has won virtually every major prize in American letters.  \nRon Chernow\nMr. Chernow’s much-anticipated biography of Alexander Hamilton was published in April 2004 to extraordinary acclaim. Starting in 2008\, Mr. Chernow began working with Lin-Manuel Miranda as the historical consultant on the sensational Broadway musical “Hamilton\,” inspired by his book and considered the biggest Broadway hit of the past fifty years. \nIn October 2017\, the Penguin Press published Mr. Chernow’s seventh book\, Grant\, to universal praise. The New York Times named it one of the ten best books published in 2017. \nThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch has hailed him as “one of the pre-eminent biographers of his generation” while Fortune magazine has called him “America’s best business biographer.” The Washington Post cited him as one of the “five most important public intellectuals in America today.” In September 2017\, President Obama conferred upon him a National Humanities Medal at the White House and he was honored the same week by the National Archives in Washington. \n\nNobel Sponsor ($25\,000)\n\nPrivate reception with Ron Chernow prior to the program for ten (10) guests \nSponsor recognition across all signage\, event program and media\nTen (10) signed copies of Grant\nTwo (2) seats to a “Book It” luncheon at Club Giraud on Saturday\, April 6\, 2019\nTen (10) tickets to the private “Esquire Tavern Epilogue” author party Saturday evening\n\nPulitzer Sponsor ($10\,000)\n\nPrivate reception with Ron Chernow prior to the program for ten (10) guests \nSponsor recognition across all signage\, event program and media\nTen (10) signed copies of Grant\nFive (5) tickets to the private “Esquire Tavern Epilogue” author party Saturday evening\n\nNational Book Award Sponsor ($5\,000)\n\nPrivate reception with Ron Chernow prior to the program for two (2) guests\nSponsor recognition on event program and website\nTwo (2) tickets to the private “Esquire Tavern Epilogue” author party Saturday evening\n\nPEN/Faulkner Sponsor ($2\,500)\n\nOne (1) table for ten guests\nSponsor recognition on event program (time permitting) and website\n\n\nBook Appétit Literary Feast Sponsors\n\n 
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/book-appetit-literary-feast-2019/
LOCATION:The Witte Museum Mays Family Center\, 3801 Broadway Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Appétit
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SUMMARY:Get Lit with Julián Castro
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE 10/10: This event will be live streamed. \nThe San-Antonio Express-News will be at GET LIT with Julián Castro to live stream the event\, which will be hosted on their Facebook page. Texas Public Radio will also be in attendance recording the event\, and will available on their website following the event. \nUPDATE 9/25: This event is sold out. To be added to the waitlist\, sign up below. \nThe San Antonio Book Festival proudly presents GET LIT with Julián Castro\, former Mayor of San Antonio\, the 16th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama\, and the author of An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream. Castro will be joined by his brother Joaquín\, the Congressman for Texas’s 20th district\, for a discussion about this new memoir. \n5:30 PM – Reception & cash bar\n6:00 PM – Program\n7:00 PM – Book sales & signing \nRSVP REQUIRED! Scroll down to save your seat!\n(FYI: Tickets may arrive in your junk email. Please check your spam folders for your RSVP confirmations. You do NOT need to print your tickets. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend\, please email Josh McCormack.) \n \n\nJulián Castro by Beowulf Sheehan\nAbout the author: After more than two decades on the national stage\, one of the leading political figures of his generation\, Julián Castro\, will finally tell his story\, in the new memoir AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY: Waking Up from My American Dream. With the heated midterm elections fast approaching and our country appearing more splintered than ever\, we’ll look for assured voices of reason like Castro’s to empower us to move forward together. \nWhen President Obama introduced Julián Castro to the world\, he said\, “Julián\, you have lived the American Dream.” And indeed he had. Julián and his twin brother were raised by a single mother and bounced around rental homes in a San Antonio\, Texas\, barrio. Graduating from Stanford and Harvard Law School\, Julián was elected to public office at the age of 26 and went on to become his hometown’s mayor at just 35\, making him the youngest mayor of a top-50 American city. Named to the World Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders in 2010\, he was recognized by Time as one of “40 under 40” rising stars in American politics. \n \nAbout the book: In AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY\, Castro poignantly explores his family’s story\, beginning in 1922\, with the border crossing of a seven-year-old orphan girl\, his grandmother—Victoria Castro—from Mexico into America. His beloved grandmother “Mamo” grew up without her parents and struggled to raise her daughter Rosie as a single parent\, all while working as a maid. Rosie would go on to plunge herself into activism in the late 1960s during the Chicano Movement\, the push for Mexican American civil rights amid prejudice and limited opportunities. Just two generations later\, this immigrant family’s long-sought American Dream would be fulfilled as Rosie’s sons\, Julián and Joaquin\, experienced tremendous success. \nRosie instilled in both of her sons a true grit and desire to achieve—they harnessed an intense sibling rivalry\, driving each other to new heights. But Julián faced setbacks both financially and professionally\, including nearly losing his home to foreclosure after he quit his law firm job\, and losing his first campaign for mayor of San Antonio\, in 2005. He persevered\, and eventually as mayor revitalized and transformed San Antonio into one of the country’s leading economies. \nThe national spotlight fell upon him and he rose to the occasion\, as keynote speaker for the 2012 Democratic National Convention—selected by Barack Obama. As the first mayor to deliver that speech\, Castro’s charisma and eloquence won hearts and minds. The international press was quick to draw parallels between him and Obama\, himself a little-known keynote speaker just eight years earlier. President Obama welcomed him as the 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development\, and Castro sheds light on those whirlwind early days of the administration. \nShortlisted as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016\, Castro had an insider’s view of one of the biggest upsets in American politics. Now\, in the post-Obama era\, Castro’s unforgettable experiences and family story underscore both our right to pursue the American Dream and our responsibility to defend it.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-julian-castro/
LOCATION:The Pearl Stable\, 307 Pearl Pkwy\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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SUMMARY:Get Lit with Mimi Swartz
DESCRIPTION:The San Antonio Book Festival proudly presents Get Lit with Mimi Swartz\, author of Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart. Swartz will be joined in conversation by Bonnie Petrie\, bioscience and medicine reporter at Texas Public Radio. After audience Q&A\, there will be book sales and signing\, courtesy of The Twig Book Shop. Join us for an evening of lively conversation!\n5:30 PM – Book sales & wine reception 6:00 PM – Presentation 6:45 PM – Audience Q&A 7:00 PM – Book sales and signing NO TICKETS NECESSARY! \n\n\n\nPRAISE FOR TICKER:\n\n\n\n“A riveting medical thriller…Told in an appropriately over-the-top style\, this is a quintessentially Texas story: sprawling\, unpredictable\, and teeming with risk and opportunity.”  -Publishers Weekly\n \n“It doesn’t take an acute interest in the human heart to be hooked after only a few pages of Ticker.” -Vanity Fair\n \n“A developing story about. . . innovation\, daring\, perceived double-crosses\, competition and conflict. . . Ticker beats at an accelerated rate.” -The Houston Chronicle\n \n“Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart tells a story as big as Texas. . .” \n-The Wall Street Journal\n\n \n\nMimi Swartz\nAbout the author: Mimi Swartz is a long-time executive editor at Texas Monthly\, and a two-time National Magazine Award winner and a four-time finalist. The co-author of the national bestseller Power Failure\, with Sherron Watkins\, about the failures of Enron\, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair\, The New Yorker\, Esquire\, Slate\, and her op-ed pieces appear regularly in The New York Times.  \n\n\n\nAbout the book: Part investigative journalism\, part medical mystery\, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation\, recounting fifty years of false starts\, abysmal failures and miraculous triumphs\, as experienced by one the world’s foremost heart surgeons\, O.H. “Bud” Frazier\, who has given his life to saving the un-savable.  His journey takes him from a small town in west Texas to one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions\, The Texas Heart Institute\, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories where calves are fitted with new heart designs. The roadblocks to success—medical setbacks\, technological shortcomings\, government regulations—are immense. Still\, Bud and his associates persist\, finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. A field beside the Nile irrigated by an Archimedes screw. A hardware store in Brisbane\, Australia. A seedy bar on the wrong side of Houston.  Until post WWII\, heart surgery did not exist. Ticker provides a riveting history of the pioneers who gave their all to the courageous process of cutting into the only organ humans cannot live without. Heart surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley\, whose feud dominated the dramatic beginnings of heart surgery. Christian Barnaard\, who changed the world overnight by performing the first heart transplant. Inventor Robert Jarvik\, whose artificial heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwide symbol of both the brilliant promise of technology and the devastating evils of experimentation run amuck.  Rich in supporting players\, Ticker introduces us to Bud’s brilliant colleagues in his quixotic quest to develop an artificial heart: Billy Cohn\, the heart surgeon and inventor who devotes his spare time to the pursuit of magic and music; Daniel Timms\, the Brisbane biomedical engineer whose design of a lightweight\, pulseless heart with but a single moving part offers a new way forward. And\, as government money dries up\, the unlikeliest of backers\, Houston’s furniture king\, Mattress Mack. In a sweeping narrative of one man’s obsession\, Swartz raises some of the hardest questions of the human condition. What are the tradeoffs of medical progress?   What is the cost\, in suffering and resources\, of offering patients a few more months\, or years of life? Must science do harm to do good?  Ticker takes us on an unforgettable journey into the power and mystery of the human heart.
URL:https://sabookfestival.org/event/get-lit-with-mimi-swartz/
LOCATION:Central Library – Auditorium\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Get Lit Author Series
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