2010 Festival Lineup Announced
Now that the list of writers appearing at the 2010 Texas Book Festival is online, make your plans to be at the Texas State Capitol the weekend of October 16-17 to hear the nation’s best writers talk about their latest books, all for free. Jonathan Alter, T.A. Barron, Holly Black, Alton Brown, Laura Bush, Meg Cabot, Matt de la Peña, Jennifer Egan, Sam Harris, Jeff Lindsay, Michele Norris, P.J. O’Rourke, Eugene Robinson, David Wiesner, and Jeffrey Zaslow will all be at the Festival, among many others. We’ll post the Festival schedule in mid-September. For more details, see the press release.
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Festival Venues Expand
Festival-goers will find a more streamlined and navigable Festival this year – there will be one tent at the corner of 13th & Colorado where children’s book writers will be signing, and one tent on Congress Avenue between 10th & 11th streets where adult writers (including young adult writers) will be signing. The House and Senate chambers in the Texas State Capitol are being renovated this year and will not be in use during the Festival. However, as in years past, TBF sessions will be held in the Capitol Extension. The Children's Chapter has moved from 11th Street to Colorado at 13th Street. Please also be aware that the Capitol has installed metal detectors at each of the building's four entrances, so you can use any Capitol entrance to get to Festival sessions in the Extension. We'll have a Festival map online soon.
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What to Expect at the 2010 Festival
We’ll post the Festival schedule in mid-September, but get ready for panels about famous fugitives, America’s gilded age, the drug wars on the border, strangely funny crime fiction, the history of Latino civil rights struggles, the life of David Foster Wallace, capital punishment, medical mysteries, and awkward family photos. On Saturday night, October 16th, we’ll have a smackdown between zombies and unicorns and a collaboration with Austin’s Teleportal Readings, among other events.
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