The San Antonio Book Festival was launched several years ago in the spirit of the Austin-based Texas Book Festival, a nationally recognized event which attracts hundreds of authors and hundreds of thousands of attendees annually. Sponsored by the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, our book festival, held in the spring on the eve of Fiesta,…
Gay Memoirists Jamie Brickhouse and David Crabb Trip Down Memory Lane
“You know how some serial killers are “returners” — they’ll go back to the scene of the crime to see their handiwork?” David Crabb asks me. “I’m not a serial killer, but I’m a returner.” I’m not a serial killer either, but like Crabb, I’m a memoirist, so by definition, a returner. We are having…
Jamie Brickhouse, Dangerous When Wet, at the Twig
Jamie Brickhouse: Dangerous When Wet 5:30pm, Thursday, May 14 The Twig Book Shop, free Acclaimed debut author and Trinity University alumnus Jaime Brickhouse returns to his native Texas this Thursday at The Twig Book Shop to read from his new memoir, Dangerous When Wet, at the book shop located in the Pearl on Thursday, May 14, at 5:30…