Fans of literary fiction rejoice!: When the Texas Book Festival announced its lineup on Sept. 3, one couldn’t help but notice how many big, boldfaced names are among this year’s attendees: Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and Colson Whitehead, to name a half-dozen. Oh, hell, here’s a half-dozen more: Amanda Eyre Ward, Robert Olen Butler, David Wroblewski, Jeannette Walls, Jim Crace, and Elizabeth Berg. And that’s just fiction; nonfiction heavy hitters like Douglas Brinkley, Bryan Burrough, Po Bronson, and Cheever biographer Blake Bailey will also be storming the Capitol on Halloween weekend, alongside other authors not brought to you by the letter “B.”

For more info, including complete lineup, see www.texasbookfestival.org.

This article appears in September 11 • 2009.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...