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The Texas Book Festival Gala, known concurrently as “One of those times people who write for a living actually dress up for something” and “Austin’s best ‘Hey, there’s that guy that wrote that book!’ dinner,” proceeded both sans hitches and quickly (quicker than in years past, said one observer. Well played, everyone). There were speakers, there was silent auctioning, there were killer lemon squares. What’s not to like?
Austin-born, veteran CBS anchor and part-time musician Bob Schieffer (aka “The Man From TCU”) MC’ed the event broke out a few choice book tour war stories (following a stripper bit on a morning radio show, speaking to a packed house at Louisiana College only to find out attendance was mandatory) before introducing the evening’s speakers.
Richard Russo (“Empire Falls” this year’s “That Old Cape Magic”) discussed the intersection of imagination and autobiography. Russo noted that novelists can get mighty ruffled at the notion that they are writing autobiographical work; it is the reverse of a memoirist being called a liar, “it is a charge,” he said, an accusation that they are not imaginative. Yet, he argued, the two are inherently intertwined.

See the full article from “Austin American-Statesman”