The 10th Annual San Antonio Book Festival Schedule<\/p>\n

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The 10th Annual San Antonio Book Festival<\/a>  has announced its official 2022 schedule for this year\u2019s festival, taking place on May 21, 2022, at the Central Library and Southwest School of Art.  The festival will feature over 90 national, regional, and local authors and 60 sessions for guests to attend, and is FREE and open to all ages, featuring literary works for the whole family. A full list of all the sessions at the festival is available online<\/a><\/strong>. A full list of participating authors can be found here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2022 HELPFUL LINKS:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author lineup<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author and book cover photos<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Book Festival photos<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Book Festival b-roll<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Book Festival logos<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2022 NOTEWORTHY SESSIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ASSIMILATION AND BELONGING<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival\u2019s YouTube channel)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In You Sound Like a White Girl, bestselling author Julissa Arce questions the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants and calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Julissa Arce<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moderator: Cat Cardenas, Texas Monthly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A CONVERSATION WITH JERICHO BROWN AND NATALIE DIAZ<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival\u2019s YouTube channel)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Jericho Brown (The Tradition) and Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem) take center stage at the San Antonio Book Festival. They read from their latest collections, and discuss their transcendent work \u2013 both on the page and in their communities \u2013 and why engaging with verse is a vital and accessible literary act. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors: Jericho Brown and Natalie Diaz<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moderator: Roger Reeves<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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THIS TIME TOMORROW WITH EMMA STRAUB<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival\u2019s YouTube channel)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story in her latest novel, This Time Tomorrow. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Emma Straub<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moderator: Kathy Blackwell, Texas Monthly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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THE MAYOR AND THE JUDGE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium (this session will be taped and aired at a later date on C-SPAN\u2019s Book-TV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In The Mayor and The Judge, San Antonio Texas Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson W. Wolff fought to keep citizens safe at a time when the country was largely divided by political mayhem and disinformation. Including personal accounts of his family’s reaction, the impact of the COVID-19, and the death of his best friend, Wolff writes candidly about how a global pandemic hit too close to home. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors: Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Judge Nelson W. Wolff
Moderator: David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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AMERICAN REBOOT WITH WILL HURD<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time:  2:30 PM – 3:15 PM  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium (this session will be taped and aired at a later date on C-SPAN\u2019s Book-TV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd\u2019s American Reboot is a political playbook rooted in the ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Will Hurd
Moderator: Robert Rivard, San Antonio Report<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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TRANS LITERATURE & ART<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: San Antonio Book Festival Virtual Tent<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a culture of attacks on transgender and queer rights, there is a deep need for narratives that embrace queerness and break heteronormative expectations. Authors Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Eileen Myles, Denne Michele Norris, and Torrey Peters pay homage to the beauty and resiliency of queer and transgender art and discuss the importance of art to their own liberation as both writers and readers. The panel is dedicated to those who seek to see themselves in literature and those fighting back against unjust laws. It will be a celebration of the power of art to create change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Eileen Myles, Denne Michele Norris, and Torrey Peters
Moderator: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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SAN ANTONIO DEBUTS TAKE OVER PURA BELPR\u00c9 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Coates Chapel<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pura Belpr\u00e9 Honor recipients Jonny Garza Villa and Marcia Mickelson tackle issues of identity, love in its many forms, and heartfelt relationships and their struggles. In Mickelson\u2019s Where I Belong, a Guatemalan American teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home. Garza Villa\u2019s Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun is a poignant novel about coming out, first love, and being your best true self.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors: Jonny Garza Villa and Marcia Mickelson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moderator: Anel Flores <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Introduced by: students from the Young Women’s Leadership Academy <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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GRAPHIC STORYTELLING: PAST AND PRESENT<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: Coates Chapel<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In The Witch Owl Parliament, all-star Latinx authors David Bowles and Ra\u00fal the Third emerge readers into a steampunk-inspired 19th-century Mesoamerica saga of forbidden alchemy. Laura Gao\u2019s compellingly layered graphic memoir Messy Roots depicts a multidimensional account of growing into queer Asian American identity and nuanced <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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CASTRO FAMILY TIES<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: McNutt Middle-Grade Garden<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Monica Brown and Rep. Joaquin Castro read from Small Room, Big Dreams: The Journey of Juli\u00e1n and Joaquin Castro \/ Peque\u00f1a habitaci\u00f3n, grandes sue\u00f1os: El viaje de Juli\u00e1n y Joaqu\u00edn Castro \u2013 a bilingual storytime<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors: Monica Brown, Joaquin Castro
Introduced by: students from the Young Women’s Leadership Academy <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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ULTIMATE ILLUSTRATOR SKETCH-OFF<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Location: McNutt Middle-Grade Garden<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Making its return to the San Antonio Book Festival, renowned illustrators compete in the ultimate sketch-off. Topics are capricious and mercurial based on audience suggestions and ideas. More than a dozen sketches will be signed and given to lucky audience members. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Laura Gao, Adriana Garcia, Xavier Garza, Shawn Harris, Don Tate
Hosted by: Library Chica Zinnia Bayardo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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