{"id":37699,"date":"2025-11-06T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:21:09","slug":"turn-to-chapter-30-the-austin-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37699\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn to Chapter 30\u00a0 \u2022 The Austin Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, the Texas Book Festival<\/a> unites writers and readers from across the globe for the 30th year: A feat all the more impressive as uncovering erased histories, pushing the boundaries of fiction, and encouraging universal literacy \u2013 all essential to the festival\u2019s mission \u2013 remain key targets of our increasingly widespread autocratic regimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among works spanning identity and politics, homelessness and foreign policy, climate and tech, and music and culture, by authors ranging from celebrity scribes like Matthew McConaughey and Chelsea Handler to just-emerging authors, one specific theme appears in the 2025 Book Festival lineup: Texas. It seems obvious, but the event\u2019s Lone Star programming proves as nuanced and expansive as the state itself. Take historian Benjamin Heber Johnson<\/a>, who explores its complex, consequential roots in Texas: An American History, and scholar Jeff Roche<\/a>, whose new offering The Conservative Frontier traces Texas\u2019 role in the rise of the new right. They speak Saturday at the panel \u201cTexas Takes Shape: Perceptions, Power and the Politics of Identity.\u201d If you\u2019re more interested in fiction, dog-ear Austin authors Emily Hunt Kivel<\/a> and Fernando A. Flores<\/a>, who present their latest works at the Michener Center-presented panel \u201cNot the Texas You Know: Unconventional Takes on the Lone Star State\u201d \u2013 or Lucas Schaefer<\/a> and Callie Collins<\/a>, the faces behind \u201cAustin Calling: Debut Novels Set in the Heart of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are just some of the hundreds of authors appearing in Downtown Austin Nov. 8-9 for a mix of discussions, readings, and special events hosted in and around the Capitol. Thumb through the official Texas Book Festival guide, available as a handy pullout in this very newspaper, for more information.<\/p>\n

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This article appears in November 7 \u2022 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A note to readers:\u00a0Bold and uncensored,\u00a0The Austin Chronicle\u00a0has been Austin\u2019s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community\u2019s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarys Anderson moved from Nowhere, DFW to Austin in 2017 to study journalism at the University of Texas. She began writing for The Austin Chronicle in 2021 and joined its full-time staff in 2023, where she covers music and culture.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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