Experience the Festival through video recordings of select sessions from Festival Weekend and our year-round literary programs! Whether you attended and want to relive your favorite conversations or missed the Festival and want to see your favorite authors, take a look at these captivating sessions below or on our YouTube channel.


2024


Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Michele Norris about “Revenge of the Tipping Point”

Matthew McConaughey in Conversation with Richard Linklater about “Greenlights”

Presented by Libro.fm: Narrating the Narrative, Authors on Bringing Their Audiobooks to Life

Grappling With the Voices Insides: Stories of Struggle and Triumph

What Makes a Monster? Stephen Graham Jones on “I Was a Teenage Slasher”

De la Frontera a las Urnas: Migración Latina y Transformación Política


Ambition, Identity & Connection: Artistic Journeys in Modern Life

Inheritance & Identity: Unraveling the Past to Shape the Future

2024 Texas Writer Award Presentation




Mind-Altering Medicine: Psychedelics, Science & the Search for Healing

with Eugenia Bone & Ernesto Londoño

Unpacking Extremism: The MAGA Movement and the Rise of the Latino Far Right

with Isaac Arnsdorf & Paola Ramos

Power, Race & Identity in America: Colonial Legacies and the Modern Immigrant Experience

with Mónica A. Jiménez & Ray Suarez


How Women & Academics Transformed the Espionage of War

with Elyse Graham & Liza Mundy

Guardians of Democracy: An Inside Look at the Role of Inspector General

with Glenn A. Fine

Resilience & Adversity in the Lives of Working-Class Americans

with Alice Driver & Sarah Smarsh

Understanding the Origins & the Humanity of the Border Crisis

with Javier Auyero & Jonathan Blitzer

Land of the Free? The Fight for Reproductive Rights in a Divided Nation

with Elizabeth Dias & Shefali Luthra

Roots of Resistance: The Legacy & Reclamation of Black and Indigenous Land

with Brea Baker & Rebecca Nagle


Trigger Points: Guns, Policing & the Global Reach of Violence

with Michael Sierra-Arévalo & Ieva Jusionyte


The Cost of Inequality: America’s Black-White Wealth Divide

with Louise Story


How Infrastructure Supports & Separates Us

with Frank Andre Guridy & Megan Kimble



2023


Ann Patchett in Conversation about “Tom Lake”

An Exploration of the “Latinx” Identity in Family, Community & Culture


Jonathan Lethem in Conversation about “Brooklyn Crime Novel”

“Southern Cooking, Global Flavors” with Kenny Gilbert

PEN America Presents: Threats to Freedom of Expression


Curtis Sittenfeld in Conversation about “Romantic Comedy”

Ingrid Rojas Contreras en Conversación Sobre su Libro “El Hombre Que Movía Las Nubes”
Sartorial Splendor in Sports



Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in Conversation about “Chain Gang All Stars”

S. A. Cosby in Conversation about “All the Sinners Bleed”

“Lone Stars Rising” with Texas Monthly



Lawrence Wright in Conversation about “Mr. Texas”

Ali Hazelwood and Aaron H. Aceves on Teenage Love, Angst, and Coming-of-Age

Writers’ League of Texas Presents: Debut Texas Novelists


Texas Authors on Navigating Black Womenhood
Stacey Abrams in Conversation about “Rogue Justice”