Margaret Atwood has been blogging her way through her fall book tour, which will make a stop in Austin for the Texas Book Festival. Credit: image courtesy of http://marg09.wordpress.com/

Fans of literary fiction rejoice!: The Texas Book Festival announced its lineup today, and there’s some awfully big, bold-face names attached, including Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and Colson Whitehead.

One thing the sixsome have in common is that they all had new books published this summer or have forthcoming ones coming out this fall. Another commonality? A tendency toward major honors: Think Pulitzer, Booker Prize, MacArthur Genius Grant, World Fantasy Award. Impressed yet?

We’ll have loads of coverage in coming weeks, but in the meantime, you can read some of our past coverage of 2009 TBF panelists, including David Wroblewski (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle), Scott Blackwood (We Agreed to Meet Just Here), Belinda Acosta (Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz), Bryan Burroughs (The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes), John Pipkin (Woodsburner), and the DadLabs guys.

The Texas Book Festival runs Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Texas State Capitol. For more info, including the lineup, visit texasbookfestival.org.

This article appears in August 28 • 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...