Best-selling authors Rebecca Makkai and Jane Smiley their first appearances at the free San Antonio festival.
"I moved here from Chicago back in 2015, and I did feel like I was losing that a bit, because very high profile authors weren't making stops in San Antonio as often as they did in Chicago," Gonzalez said."I wanted to be a part of changing that for San Antonio, and we're getting there.
The main event is Saturday. Those who can't be there in person can stream sessions in the Russell Hill Rogers Tent on the festival's YouTube channel and the sessions in the Texas Monthly tent on the festival's Facebook page.will be making her San Antonio Book Festival debut in the Texas Monthly Tent, where she will talk about her new book,"A Dangerous Business."
The fast-moving book is straightforward about sex and the ways that women prevent unwanted pregnancies, including a potion that Eliza takes early in the book. Those scenes evoke current battles on that front, and those 21st century issues were very much on Smiley's mind as she was writing.
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