Nearly 100 authors will visit the Central Library and UTSA Southwest Campus downtown for the 2024 San Antonio Book Festival on April 13.
It's our privilege to produce journalism that fosters democracy this election year, but we can't do it alone. Will you contribute today to helpWith an estimated 400,000 new books published each year in the United States, San Antonio Book Festival Literary Director Anna Dobben had quite the task narrowing her selection down to 100 authors for this year’s one-day festival on April 13.
But she readily accepts the challenge of programming the annual festival, narrowing her focus by paying attention to local market preferences, Texas authors and which books and authors are spurring conversation nationwide. “The beauty of San Antonio,” said Brooklyn-based Dobben, is that “there are so many people here who have different interests.”“There’s books for everybody here,” Dobben said, recommending a choose your own adventure-style approach for festival patrons. She said she’s strategically mapped out the various panels so that a person focused on hard-hitting nonfiction or on young adult novels can attend multiple panels throughout the day.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. And if an attendee is conflicted between two compelling panels happening at the same time, Dobben said she takes that quandary as a compliment to her programming and the range of interests of San Antonio readers.
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