Texas Book Festival 2012
photo by Jana Birchum, posted Oct. 29, 2012. #4 of 17 photos.
"I was born with a comic sensibility ... or a dysfunctional family forces a comic sensibility on you very young," said Maria Semple. The Middlesteins novelist Jami Attenberg (far left) explained that her personal experiences and history had inevitably crept into her work: "Any writer who tells you the work isn't autobiographical is either lying to you or lying to themselves."
Texas Book Festival
October 27-28, 2012
