Session Times
Venues
WEST TERRACE
The Central Library
3rd Floor
AUDITORIUM
The Central Library
1st Floor
ROGERS HALL
The Southwest School of Art
Santikos Building
Navarro Street
SWARTZ ROOM
The Central Library
2nd Floor
STUDIO
The Southwest School of Art
McAllister Building
Across Augusta Street
from the Central Library
FESTIVAL ROOM
The Central Library
3rd Floor
LAUNCHSA
The Central Library
1st Floor
Across from Circulation Desk
COOKING TENT
Central Library Plaza
10:00 am
11:00 am
10–10:45am
My (Underground) American
Dream: My True Story as an
Undocumented Immigrant
Who Became a Wall Street
Executive with Julissa Arce
Moderator: Alicia Perez
11–11:45am
Commonwealth
author Ann Patchett
in conversation with
Elizabeth McCracken
10–10:45am
The Strange Career of
William Ellis: The Texas
Slave Who Became a
Mexican Millionaire
with Karl Jacoby
Moderator: Michael Soto
10–10:45am
S.C. Gwynne talks about
The Perfect Pass: American
Genius and the Reinvention
of Football
Moderator:
Dan Goodgame
10–10:45am
Jessica Luther on
the Baylor football
rape scandal
Moderator:
David Martin Davies
10–10:45am
Art Like a River:
The Legacy of Juan
O'Gorman's Riverwalk
Mural with Catherine
Nixon Cooke
Moderator:
Mónica del Arenal
10–10:45am
John Montford
Gives the Straight
Talk on Doing Good
Business
Moderator:
Judge Nelson Wolff
Noon–1pm
One Place, Many Voices:
New Fiction & Poetry About the
Border with Frederick Luis Aldama,
Edmundo Paz Soldán & Emmy Perez
Moderator:
Octavio Quintanilla
Noon–12:45pm
Dust Bowl Girls:
The Team That
Barnstormed Its Way to
Basketball Glory with
Lydia Reeder
Moderator: Laura Sisson
11–11:45am
The Story Behind the
Kool-Aid: Jim Jones
and Peoples Temple
with Jeff Guinn
Moderator:
Gilbert Garcia
11am–Noon:
The Harlem Renaissance:
The Cultural Capital of Black
America with Nikki Grimes,
Renée Watson & Michael Soto
Moderator:
Joycelyn Moody
11am–11:45am
Water in Plain Sight:
Hope for a Thirsty World
with Judith D. Schwartz
Moderator:
David Ladensohn
12:15–1pm
Who Are You?:
David Shields on
Whether We Can Ever
Really Know Someone
Moderator:
Michael Fischer
Noon–1pm
I Spy Something You Don’t:
Three Visionary Writers Joseph
Scapellato, Bradley Spinelli &
Alfredo Vea
Moderator:
Bernadette Smyth
11am–Noon:
Cornyation: San Antonio's
Outrageous Fiesta Tradition
with author Amy Stone,
performer John
McBurney &
co-host Rick Frederick
Moderator:
Elaine Wolff Institute of Texan Cultures
12:15–1:15pm
The New Frontier:
Latin@ Speculative
Fiction with Gregg
Barrios, Cathryn
Merla-Watson, John
Phillip Santos &
Debora Vasquez
Moderator: B. V. Olguín
11am–11:45am
All the Presidents' Dogs:
Heroic Tales of Secret
Service Dogs with
Maria Goodavage
Moderator:
Marcia Logan
10am–11am
From Soil to Sky: How
Milkweeds and Monarch
Butterflies Coexist with
Anurag Agrawhal
Moderator:
Monika Maeckle
11:15am–12:15pm
Time for Payback:
Novels About
Revenge with
Amy Gentry & David
Samuel Levinson
Moderator:
Patricia Portales
10–11am
Wake up to
Breakfast in Texas!
Terry ThompsonAnderson demos from
her new cookbook.
Moderator:
Paula Disbrowe
EVENTS FOR KIDS & TEENS
12:00pm/Noon
Noon–1pm
The World Is Falling
Apart (And I Can’t
Stop Laughing) with
Jade Chang &
Eduardo Rabasa
Moderator: Sam Boyer
12:30–1:30pm
The Personal Is
Political Is Poetic
with Hayan
Charara &
Morgan Parker
Moderator:
David Biespiel
2:00 pm
1:15–2pm
The Terror Years:
From al-Qaeda to
the Islamic State with
Lawrence Wright
Moderator:
Evan Smith
1–1:45pm
Epic of Injustice:
Remembering an
American Tragedy
with Tim Z.
Hernandez
Moderator:
Ricardo Ainslie
1:15–2pm
Real Food/Fake Food:
Why You Don’t Know
What You’re Eating and
What You Can Do About
It with Larry Olmsted
Moderator: Wendy Rigby
1:15–2:15pm
Mom's the Word with
Angela Morales &
Amanda Eyre Ward
Moderator:
Tracy Idell Hamilton
2:30–3:30pm
A Celebration of San Antonio's
Poet Laureates with Jenny Browne
& Laurie Ann Guerrero
Moderator: Naomi Shihab Nye
Entrance on Augusta Street
10:40-11:10am
Liz Garton Scanlon presents
her new picture book Bob
Not Bob! (to be read as if you
have the worst cold ever!)
12:55–1:25pm
Come join The Story Circle/
El círculo de cuentos with
Diane Gonzales Bertrand!
introduces Steven Weinberg
(You Must Be This Tall). Listen
on your tippy toes!
The Magik Theatre PRESENTS
"The Three Little Pigs"
11am–12:00pm
The Story Doesn't End Here:
Mysteries & Cliffhangers
with René Saldaña Jr.
& David Liss
Moderator:
Josie Martinez
MIDDLE GRADE AUTHORS
Copper Kithen
The Southwest School of Art
Urschel Building
Across Augusta St. from the Central Library
GEEKTOWN
11:20am–12:05pm
11:00 – 11:45AM
TEEN ACTIVITIES
2017 Grades 7 – 12 Fiction Contest
Awards Ceremony
Augusta & Giraud Streets
Sponsored by the Texas Cavaliers
Many Thanks to our
2017 San Antonio Bo ok Festival
FOUNDING PARTNERS
12:15–1pm
Jon Scieszka talks
about Guys Read:
Heroes and Villains!
Moderator:
Kendall Miller
PRESENTING SPONSOR
2:30–3:30pm
The Future Is Female:
Feminism for the Real
World with Kelly Jensen,
Jessica Luther,
& Siobhan Vivian
Moderator: Esperanza
Garza-Danweber
1:35–2:05pm
Who's That With
Famous Children's
Writer Denise
Fleming?
It's 5 Little Ducks!
And
to
here as of
Our 500+ Volunteers
See all
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1–1:45pm
My Life with a Few
Thieving Weasels
with Billy Taylor
Moderator:
John Tippit
SABF
is the signature
pro gram of SAPLF
®
PREMIER SPONSORS
WILLIAM & SALOMÉ
SCANLAN
FOUNDATION
4:15–5pm
Vivas to Those Who
Have Failed: Poems for
Unknown Heroes with
Martín Espada
Moderator:
Arturo Madrid
3:45–4:45pm
Love Has No Borders (Um,
Including Between Texas
& Mexico) with Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Reyna Grande
& Marie Marquardt
Moderator:
Marisela Barrera
3:35–4:05pm
William Joyce shows
off the weirdest
souvenir ever with
Dinosaur Bob and
His Adventures with
the Family Lazardo!
2:15–3pm
Go with Raúl the Third
and his Lowriders to the
Center of the Earth!
Moderator:
Mary Guerrero Milligan
3:15–4:15 pm
Stories from
My Culture with
Nikki Grimes and
Jennifer Torres
Moderator:
Viki Ash
2–3pm
Getting Ahead: Easier
Said Than Done with Joe
Jiménez & Renée Watson
Moderator:
Jeanette Honermann
3:15–4pm
Fresh Ink Youth
Slam presents
Poetry Slam 101
Key Sponsors
Festival VIPs
Redsmith Graphic Solutions
Texas Cavaliers
Contributing Sponsors
Ruth & John Agather
JoAnn Boone
Marcia & Dan Goodgame
Cathy Obriotti Green
Claudia Huntington
& Marshall Miller
Claudia & David Ladensohn
Sherry & Ed Layman
James Lifshutz
Daisy Power
Bonnie Reed
Bill & Teresa Reynolds
Andi Rodriguez
Lyn & Pete Selig
Banks Smith
Shannon & David Stephens
Rebecca Yarborough
backyard studios
Lucifer Lighting Company
Ricos Products Company
Supporting Sponsors
H O LT
FAMILY
Emcee: David Crabb
4–5pm
One Pan & Done:
Hassle-Free Meals
with Molly Gilbert
Moderator:
Diana Barrios Treviño
2:55-3:25pm
Emma Virján reveals
why What This Story Needs Is a
Bang and a Clang!
MAJOR SPONSORS
March 23, 2017
with Andrea Valdez,
very mean judges,
and star panelists.
3:45–4:45pm
My Characters Are Obsessed
(And I Can’t Get Enough)
with John Pipkin
& Deb Olin Unferth
Moderator:
Yvette Benavides
2:15–2:45pm
René Colato Laínez
tells us whether
Mamá is an alien!
SP O N S O R S
Listed
A Texan-Off
2:30–3:30pm
Eat Mexico with
Lesley Téllez
Moderator:
Michael Sohocki
1:15–2pm
Who's Rooster Joe
and the Bully?
Ask Xavier Garza!
Moderator:
Lori Laguna
Noon–12:45pm
Love Among the Ruins:
A Conversation with
Siobhan Vivian
Moderator:
Jennifer Ziegler
4:15–5pm
Not Our First Rodeo:
3:45–4:45pm
Marfa Modern:
Interiors as
Beautiful as the
Texas Desert with
Helen Thompson
& Casey Dunn
Moderator:
Vance Muse
3–4pm Women's Words:
The Poetry of Sheila Black, Sharon
Olinka, & Alexandra van de Kamp
Moderator: Sonya Groves
1:15–2:15pm
Who Run the World? Girls!
(And Other Worlds, Too) with
Kendare Blake
& Claudia Gray
Moderator:
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
12:15–12:45pm
Find out from Carolyn Dee Flores
what Teresita's suprise is in
A Surprise for Teresita/Una Sorpresa
para Teresita
10–10:30am Jon Scieszka
4-4:45pm
Skeletons in Our Closets:
Lydia Pyne on the
World’s Most Famous
Human Fossils
Moderator:
Jennifer Mathews
3:45–4:45pm
The Old West Made New:
Western Fiction Across
the Centuries with Jeff
Guinn, Bill Wittliff &
Craig Johnson
Moderator:
Mark Smith
2:30–3:30pm
Miles and Miles of Texas:
The Weird History of
the Texas Highway
Department with
Carol Dawson &
Roger Allen Polson
Moderator:
Joan Henderson
Entrance on Augusta St. at Giraud
The Holt Family
CHILDREN’S
READING TENT
and Children’s Exhibitors
McNutt Garden
The Southwest School of Art
3:15–4pm
Is It Cold In Here, or Is It
Just You?: Vincent DiMaio
on His Pioneering Work
in the Morgue
Moderator:
Ron Franscell
2:30–3:30pm
Books Saved My
Life: Why I Read
with Will Schwalbe
& David Biespiel
Moderator:
Clay Smith
1:30–2:15pm
Saddle Up!:
Grit, Glory, and
Heartbreak at
King Ranch with
Helen Kleberg Groves
Moderator:
Marise McDermott
4:15–5pm
Amor Towles talks about
his bestselling novel
A Gentleman in Moscow
Moderator:
Robert Rivard
3–3:45pm
A Personal History of
the Zapruder Film with
Alexandra Zapruder
Moderator:
John Phillip Santos
2:15–3pm
El Movimiento:
Chicano Movement
for Beginners with
Maceo Montoya
Moderator:
Gregg Barrios
1:15–2:15pm
Nasty Women Who Fight Back:
Thrilling Female Detectives with
Rachel Howzell Hall, Kathleen
Kent & Minerva Koenig
Moderator:
Becka Oliver
4:00 pm
3:15–4pm
Catherine Burns, the
director of The Moth, on
True Stories About Facing
the Unknown
Moderator:
Lilly Gonzalez
2–2:45pm
There Goes the Neighborhood:
How Communities Overcome
Prejudice and Meet the
Challenge of American
Immigration with Ali Noorani
Moderator: Raúl Lomelí-Azoubel
1–2pm
Better Baking with
Genevieve Ko
Moderator:
Tim McDiarmid
12:15–1pm
Moths & Monsters:
A Conversation
with Laini Taylor
(Strange the Dreamer)
Moderator:
Sheryl Stoeck
3:00 pm
2:15–3pm
War Within a War:
H.W. Brands on Truman vs.
MacArthur & the Brink of
Nuclear War
Moderator:
Chuck Parrish
1:45–2:45pm
The Art of Screenwriting
with Maya Perez &
Craig Johnson
Moderator:
Alex Schencker
11:30am–12:30pm
The Tacos of Texas
with Mando Rayo
& Jarod Neece
Moderator:
Paula Disbrowe
11am–Noon:
Stars and Blood:
Retelling Shakespeare
with Joe Jiménez
& Guadalupe Garcia
McCall
YA AUTHORS
Coates Chapel
The Southwest School of Art
1:00 pm
Culligan South West, Inc.
Sally & Rhew Dooley
Susan & John Kerr
Lake | Flato
Anne & Chuck Parrish
Rack Gives Back
Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation
Southwest Airlines
Whataburger
4:15–4:45pm
Who will
keep the
three Lucys
safe?
Ask Hayan
Charara!
4:15–5pm
Fictional Characters IRL –
Geektown's Literary
Cosplay Contest
Thanks to Our In-Kind Donors
ACE Theatrical Group
Alamo Beer
Alan Petlin Gourmet Floors
Art by Momo & Pompa
Barnes and Noble
Book TV on CSPAN-2
CE Group
Central Market
The Children's Ballet
of San Antonio
Club Giraud
The DeBerry Group
The DoSeum
Education Service Center,
Region 20
The Esquire Tavern
William M. Fisher
Katy & Ted Flato
Hotel Emma
Jefferson High School
KSAT
Las Casas Foundation
Party Time Pictures
San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio Youth Literacy
spare parts
Texas Monthly
VIA Metropolitan Transit
Whataburger
Zeitgraph, Inc.
Festival Members
Rose Mary Fry
Scott Meltzer
Mari & Richard Tamez