Texas Book Festival
The Texas Book Festival boasts a full weekend of readings, book signings, cooking demonstrations, and more. A complete schedule can be found here, and we've included some information below to highlight events featuring past Prize-winners and finalists.
Saturday, Oct. 26, 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.: In the Hands of Our Hubris: Human Behavior in the Face of Climate Change
Pulitzer Prize finalist Gilbert Gaul is in conversation with Terry Tempest Williams and Nathaniel Rich as they discuss the continued effects of putting short-term human goals before ecological remedies to combat climate change. Gaul is a two-time finalist, recieving recognition for his discovery of corruption in the American blood industry (1990) and of abuses in America's nonprofit tax laws (1994). His latest book The Geography of Risk investigates costal amenities and the cost of increasingly frequent and destructive natural disasters.
Saturday, Oct. 26, 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.: The Education of an Idealist: Samantha Power in Conversation
Samantha Power shares her story from immigrating to the United States to being named US Ambassador to the United Nations. Throughout her life experiences, including positions as a war correspondent and presidential Cabinet official, Power balanced tense power structures with personal ideals, culminating in a unique journey along an impressive career path. Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for her work "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide.
Saturday, Oct. 26, 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.: Toni Morrison: A Celebration