El Paso Public Library
The Second Annual Great Southwest Book Fair & Sale - Sat, Sep 29, 2007


Book Fair Returns for Encore Season

Denise Chavez headlines an impressive list of authors
 at this year’s Great Southwest Book Fair


Denise Chavez

 The El Paso Public Library is excited to announce the Second Annual Great Southwest Book Fair is happening on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the El Paso Public Library and the El Paso History Museum at Cleveland Square.

Through an outstanding collaboration between the Library, History Museum, Adair Margo Gallery, Juntos Art Association and the UTEP Chicano Studies program, writers, publishers, historians and other literature enthusiasts from across the Southwest will convene to provide an international marketplace for Southwest literature.


Christine Granados
Ben Alire Saenz

There will also be presentations by some of the areas most respected authors. Writers from as far away as Houston and Los Angeles have already made plans to attend. Attendance is free and open to the public.

For more information call 543-5466 or 543-5412

 Download a flyer for this event (pdf)

PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS
 
El Paso Museum of History
     
  1:00 pm Christopher Lance - controversial author of Gringo’s Curve
  4:00 pm Donna Snyder, Robin Scofield, Rene Ramos - Tumblewords Project
     
Main Library’s Teen Town
     
  1:00 pm Georgina Baeza - reading from Windows Into My World: Latino youth write their lives
  1:45 pm Susan & Denise Gonzalez Abraham - authors of the critically acclaimed Cecilia’s Year and Surprising Cecilia.
     
Main Library’s Children’s Area
     
  1:00 pm  Elizabeth Margo - reading from Tom Lea’s Old Mount Franklin
     
Main Library Auditorium
     
  12:00 pm Javier O. Huerta - winner UCI Chicano / Latino Literary prize
  2:00 pm Benjamin Saenz - two time American Book Award Winner
  2:30 pm Gustavo Arellano - author of the nationally syndicated weekly column "Ask a Mexican"
  3:00 pm Christine Granados - Spur Award Finalist and named to Top 10 New Latino Authors to watch by latinostories.com
  4:00 pm Dr. Ernesto Chavez - author of Tejas and the US - Mexico War
  4:30 pm Corinne Chacon - winner of four International Latino Book Awards for 2007
  5:00 pm Denise Chavez - National Bestselling author and American Book Award Winner
Download a flyer for this event (pdf)
 
September 26, 2007