Start making tough choices: Texas Book Festival schedule released

The actual schedule for this month’s Texas Book Festival has been released. I wrote about the author lineup when it was unveiled; now you can actually start planning your weekend, by using this schedule.

This is not necessarily a good thing for a book lover to confront. Because if you’re planning to go, you’re going to have to start thinking about which authors you’re not going to see. For example:

If you’re into celebrity spotting, right off the bat you have to choose between Jeffrey Toobin, Marcia Clark and Tony Danza. (Yes, Tony Danza still qualifies.) Each will be appearing at 10 a.m. Saturday.

You’ve got a tough choice among Texas writing legends at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when Tim O’Brien is honored in one venue, Douglas Brinkley talks about Walter Cronkite in another, and Joe Nick Patoski discusses his apparently excellent Dallas Cowboys book in a third.

At the Saturday night Lit Crawl, at 9 p.m. you’ll have to choose between the moonlight tour of the Texas Cemetery, an event so popular that it’s being repeated from last year, and “The Encyclopedia Show,” which will star Chris Elliott and Stephen Tobolowsky (whom Joy Tipping wrote about today, by the way.)

On Sunday, it’s a dilemma for history buffs, as James Donovan will be discussing his Alamo book opposite H.W. Brands and his new Ulysses Grant biography, which we’ll be telling you about quite soon.

And don’t plan on getting out of town early: Newly ordained MacArthur genius Junot Diaz doesn’t go on until 4:15 Sunday.

At which point, I will be looking for whomever is buying the coffee. I think we’re going to be worn out, in the best of ways.
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