Days before San Antonio, Texas, holds its popular annual Fiesta, the city will hold a celebration with a literary bent.
Geraldine Brooks (Horse), Sandra Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You), and Kiese Laymon (Long Division) are among the authors who will appear April 15 at the 2023 San Antonio Book Festival, which aims “to unite readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture.”
This year’s festival will take place at the city’s central library and the southwest campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio. It will include a “live storytelling event” featuring authors Rafael Agustin (Illegally Yours), Mahogany L. Browne (Vinyl Moon), Rebecca Makkai (I Have Some Questions for You), and Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart Is a Chainsaw).
Other authors scheduled to appear include Adam Silvera (The First to Die at the End), Elizabeth McCracken (The Hero of This Book), Jane Smiley (A Dangerous Business), V. Castro (The Haunting of Alejandra), Ana Reyes (The House in the Pines), and Tracey Rose Peyton (Night Wherever We Go).
The first San Antonio Book Festival, founded by a coalition of groups including the San Antonio Public Library and the Texas Book Festival, was held in 2013. More information about the festival, which is free to attend, is available on its website.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
