Watch Our Archive of Inspiring Authors

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.

2025

Elizabeth McCracken: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

Thousand Voices: Jenna Bush Hager on Her New Imprint and Its First Book “Conform” by Ariel Sullivan

Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation about “To Save and to Destroy”

Recordando el Pasado, Reimaginando el Futuro: Ficción Especulativa de Autores Latinx

National Book Foundation Presents: Epistolaries and Epigraphs

Double Booked: Writing for YA and Adult Audiences Across Genres

Jason Reynolds in Conversation with Traci Thomas about “Coach”
Angie Thomas in Conversation about “Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi”
Book Launch: “Distinguished Office of Echoes” by Lisa Olstein
Texas Book Festival and the Harry Ransom Center Present Dr. Peniel Joseph
Texas Book Festival and The Holdsworth Center Present Imani Perry

2024

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

Matthew McConaughey in Conversation about “Greenlights” with Director Richard Linklater

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


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”