Check out austinchronicle.com/books for previous coverage of other 2008 Texas Book Festival and Austin Jewish Book Fair authors:

Sarah Bird (How Perfect Is That)

Robert Bryce (Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”)

Christopher Buckley (Supreme Courtship)

Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis)

Gene Fowler (Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters)

David Hajdu (The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America)

Stephanie Klein (Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp)

Joe R. Lansdale (Leather Maiden: A Novel)

Bryan Mealer (All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo)

Nate Self (Two Wars: One Hero’s Fight on Two Fronts – Abroad and Within)

Bud Shrake (Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin “Bud” Shrake Reader)

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