Lilly Gonzalez is the executive director of the San Antonio Book Festival. She discusses this year's exciting author line-up at the April 13 all-day event.
Rowan Beaird discusses her novel The Divorcées. It’s set in the 1950s on a divorce ranch, a place where women could live for six weeks to establish residency in order to be able to file for divorce in a Nevada court.
Tommy Orange discusses Wandering Stars. The novel traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.
In All the Little Bird-Hearts, debut novelist Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has created a richly drawn psychological drama set in the late 1980s about a woman, Sunday Forrester, who is autistic. The author is also autistic. The novel was longlisted for
Elizabeth Crook's latest novel, The Madstone, is a thrilling story set in Texas in the late 1860s. Protagonist Benjamin Shreve sets out on a long journey to help a pregnant mother and her little son evade a murderous gang.
In James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, we are in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1972. A human skeleton has been discovered at a construction site. Who holds the secrets of this discovery? The answer might be found among the residents
Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls and millions have followed the saga of Donald “Sully” Sullivan. Richard Russo discusses Somebody’s Fool, the third book in his North Bath trilogy.
Cristina García discusses her latest novel, Vanishing Maps. The novel follows the del Pino family we first met in García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban.
Isabel Allende's novel traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in El Salvador in 2019. Each finds refuge in the U.S.
When a mall that has been the town’s gathering place for decades is scheduled to close down, the community must face the ways they live their lives. Karin Lin-Greenberg discusses her novel, You Are Here.