Join us March 26–28 for the Dallas Literary Festival, presented by SMU. Watch this space for more info on our schedule of virtual events—all free and open to the public. 

 
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Keynote Conversation:

Alice Marie Johnson, criminal justice reform advocate and author of After Life

in conversation with

Mitchell Jackson, author of Survival Math and The Residue Years

 

also featuring

Charles M. Blow, New York Times columnist and author of The Devil You Know

Ben Fountain, local honoree and author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States and author of the memoir Crazy Brave

Tyehimba Jess, author of Leadbelly and Olio, winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End and Must I Go

Ben Moser, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Sontag: Her Life and Work

Emma Rodgers, founder of Black Images Book Bazaar and the Dallas Civil Rights Museum

and over 80 more leading literary voices!