Performer and collector Phil Collins has a whole list of books that he recommends about the Alamo-even if Pee Wee Herman’s bicycle has still not been found there. The events of the Alamo have continued to beckon writers as well, more than 180 years after William Barret Travis drew the line. The Alamo - originally known as Misión San Antonio de Valero - is pretty close to being Texas’s mecca, where natives must make a pilgrimage to fulfill their heritage and non-natives have to see what all the fuss and legend is about.

With its diversity of literary voices, its cultural traditions drawing from many indigenous and colonial backgrounds, and its commitment to preservation, San Antonio richly rewards the reader or writer who comes to explore for a day - or longer. Your Lone Star Literary Life team will be on hand to cover all the action.īut San Antonio, as the introduction to the just-off-the-press anthology Literary San Antonio makes clear, has long been a bookish destination deserving of top honors. The first weekend in April this year will bring a perfect storm of literary and cultural events to the Alamo City: in addition to the sixth annual San Antonio Book Festival April 7, 2018, San Antonio will host the annual Texas Institute of Letters inductions, honoring a songwriter (who but Willie Nelson?) for the first time, in addition to eighteen other inductees and to mark the 50th anniversary of the first international exposition, or World’s Fair, to be held in the southwestern U.S., HemisFair Park and its iconic 1968 Tower of the Americas will open for a four-day ¡Viva HemisFair! extragavanza. And hey, they’ve invited everybody to the party.įor those reasons (and a few other important factors) we’ve named San Antonio our top recommendation for Texas bookish travel in 2018.

Even less often that it receives, as a gift, a landmark book to mark the occasion, or that it it hosts a single-day book festival featuring nearly 100 authors.

It’s not often that a city gets to celebrate a 300th birthday.

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