From Rick Casey: I’ve had the pleasure through the years of serving as a moderator for a number of authors. This year I’m assigned to veteran Texas journalist Dick J. Reavis.
The annual San Antonio Book Festival will take place at the newly renovated San Antonio Central Library this weekend.April 15 this year isn’t Tax Day. In San Antonio it is something much, much better. The tax deadline is extended because April 15 is a Saturday. Instead San Antonio will, at long last, celebrate the full reopening of the Central Library with the annual San Antonio Book Festival.
Some of us were concerned that the quality of the festival might suffer because Clay Smith, the person responsible for selecting books and authors, resigned a year and a half ago. A measure of his skills: He was lured away by the Library of Congress to become its “director of literary initiatives,” with primary responsibility for running its National Book Festival.
Reavis is a man of considerable courage. On a trip to a village in the mountainous jungles of Oaxaca in the mid-1970s for a story about a peasant uprising, he and a leader of the uprising were confronted with their local guide, Don Pedro, by three “,” thugs hired by large landowners to fight peasants who were forming collectives and competing for land to establish their own farms.
Reavis doesn’t champion or denigrate any of them. He simply watches them and listens to them, and does outside research so that he can not only introduce them to readers, but also explain the broader social situations that helped to shape them.
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