Austin Calling: Debut Novels Set in the Heart of Texas
Lucas Schaefer and Callie Collins explore Austin in all its vibrant, chaotic, and transformative glory in The Slip and Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine. In The Slip, a missing teenager, fluid identities, and the world of boxing reveal the collisions of race, family, and self-discovery in late-1990s Austin. In Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine, the city comes alive in the 1970s, as a new house band, a struggling bar owner, and a young East Texas transplant navigate love, longing, and the perpetual flux of a city in motion. Both debut novels paint Austin as both a landscape and a character — electric, unpredictable, and unforgettable.
- Books: The Slip, Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine
- Book Type: Fiction
- Authors: Lucas Schaefer, Callie Collins
- Moderator: Marianne DeLeón
- Book Signing: 5:15 PM at The Main Book Signing Tent