Brownsville Performing Arts Academy 543 East 11th Street
Brownsville, TX

Thursday, September 29, 2022

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

AARP celebrates Hispanic heritage with authors Ruben Degollado and Oscar Cásares, who will recount their stories of growing up in the Rio Grande Valley. Ruben is the author of the novels Throw and The Family Izquierdo. Oscar is the author of the story collection Brownsville, and novels Amigoland and Where We Come From.

RSVP online at events.aarp.org/RGVAuthorsSept22 or call toll-free 1-877-926-8300.

Atria Cinco Ranch Senior Living Center

Panel discussion with Oscar Cásares, Jaquira Díaz, and Sergio Troncoso

Readings by Oscar Cásares and Karen Russell

Readings by: Oscar Cásares, Stephen Cha, Daniel José Older

“Historias de ayer, de hoy, y de siempre” (en español)

Panelists: Oscar Cásares, Myra Medina, Ernesto Rodriguez Abad

On Second Look: “Writing about Home from New Perspectives”

Oscar Cásares (Where We Come From) and debut novelist De’Shawn Charles Winslow (In West Mills) discuss writing about their hometowns with depth, empathy and insight.

Moderator: Anis Shivani

Book Signing: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Texas Monthly TBF Book Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

PEN America Presents: “Reporting on the Border”

Oscar joins a conversation with other journalists and experts to discuss the human rights and reporting challenges facing writers who seek to cover news regarding immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border.

Panelists: Oscar Cásares (Where We Come From), Silvia Foster-Frau (San Antonio Express-News), Carlos Sanchez (Texas Monthly), and Dr. Jeremy Slack (Deported to Death) .

Book Signing (delayed): 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Texas Monthly TBF Book Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

In Tranlation: “Telling Stories in More than One Language”

Oscar discusses the translation of De donde venimos (Where We Come From) with Cristóbal Pera, Publishing Director of Vintage Español.

Moderator: Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

Book Signing: 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Texas Monthly TBF Book Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

Reading with Carmen Tafolla, Natalia Sylvester, ire’ne lara silva, Alejandro Puyana, Leticia Urieta, Marilyse Figueroa & others…

Community reading series; Oscar reads at 8pm.

Retablos Fronterizos: A Reading of “Postcards from the Border” (open to the public, but this is a non-book event)