Sunday Schedule Change
David Hajdu's appearance at the Festival is now from 2-2:45pm on Sunday in room E2.010 (it had been from 1-1:45pm). In The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, Hajdu vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art.
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Robert Caro Receives Bookend Award
Lyndon Johnson biographer Robert Caro will receive the Festival's Bookend Award, given to a writer in recognition of outstanding contributions to Texas literature, on Sunday, November 2 from 2-3pm in the House Chamber of the Texas State Capitol. "Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,” according to The Boston Globe. "He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured." And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: "Caro has changed the art of political biography." He will be in conversation with writer Stephen Harrigan during the session, which is open and free to the public. Caro will be signing his books beginning at 3:15pm in the Booksigning Tent at 13th & Colorado Street.
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A Dose of Adolescence
Adolescence. Fortunately it's over with early; once you've finished paying for therapy, there's still a chance to move on with your life. On Sunday night, the Festival and Austin Bat Cave present a special event, open and free to the public, based on Mark Jude Poirier's anthology The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us. Robert Boswell, Elizabeth Crane, Amber Dermont, Andrew Sean Greer, ZZ Packer, and Poirier will be talking about writing about adolescence at 8pm at the Austin Bat Cave (1807 W. 11th) - there's more about the event here.
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