and is spread throughout the grounds of the Texas State Capitol and along Austin\u2019s iconic Congress Avenue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Among the acclaimed authors scheduled <\/span><\/span><\/span>to appear at <\/span><\/span><\/span>TBF <\/span><\/span><\/span>this October<\/span><\/span><\/span> is award-winning author of The Things They Carried<\/em>, former reporter for the Washington Post<\/em>, and adopted Texan Tim O\u2019Brien<\/strong>, who will present his most recent work, Dad\u2019s Maybe Book<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> in which<\/span><\/span><\/span> he shares wisdom from a life of letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons. O\u2019Brien was awarded the 1979 National Book Award for his bestseller Going After Cacciato <\/em>and won the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJames Beard Award-winning chef of Houston\u2019s Underbelly Hospitality and cookbook author Chris Shepherd<\/strong> will present Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World, <\/em>where he shares the names of the cooks who have inspired him and teaches readers how to respectively and creatively work with flavors and cultures of Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, and others. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New Orleans native Sarah M. Broom<\/strong> will present her critically acclaimed debut memoir, The Yellow House. <\/em>Raised in New Orleans East, Broom takes us through the history of New Orleans as seen through her family\u2019s past and her iconic childhood home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTV personality, James Beard Award-winning chef, and cookbook author<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/strong>Aar\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> will present h<\/span><\/span><\/span>is memoir<\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Where I Come From: Life Lessons From a Latino Chef<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>, which <\/span><\/span><\/span>offers an intimate look into the chaotic and unorthodox life of a professional chef and television personality. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNew York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> bestselling author, historian, and leading antiracist voice Ibram X. Kendi, <\/strong>whose nonfiction book <\/strong>Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America <\/em>won the <\/strong>National Book Award for Nonfiction, <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>will present his <\/span><\/span><\/span>most recent work, How to Be an Antiracist<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>Kendi <\/strong>leads readers through a widening circle of ideas, <\/span><\/span><\/span>weaving a combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story, asking readers to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJami Attenberg <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>will present her new novel, <\/span><\/span><\/span>All This Could Be Yours, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>a timely, piercing exploration of family secrets and the web of a toxic patriarch. Attenberg<\/span><\/span><\/span> is the author of sev<\/span><\/span><\/span>en books of fiction, including The Middlesteins<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>which <\/span><\/span><\/span>appeared on <\/em>the New York Times <\/em>bestseller list and was published in ten countries<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nFormer US Ambassador to the United Nations and Pulitzer Prize-winning <\/span><\/span><\/span>author <\/span><\/span><\/span>Samantha Power<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> will present her most recent work, <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>, which traces Power’s distinct American journey from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room. Powers is a leading global voice on human rights and international affairs, as she served four years as President Barack Obama\u2019s human rights advisor and eventually served in his Cabinet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nChris Ware,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> award-winning cartoonist, novelist, and contributor to The New Yorker,<\/em> will present Rusty Brown<\/em>, his newest a graphic novel that features a young Nebraska boy and his obsession with superheroes. The novel depicts the melancholic, yearning thoughts of Midwestern characters moving through realities shared and cloistered. Ware also created Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth <\/em>and Building Stories<\/em>, which won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the Times<\/em> (London) in 2009.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNational Book Award finalist and New York Times <\/em>bestselling author