The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. Kyle spoke, at times haltingly, of her slain husband's dedication to things beyond himself.A memoir-meets-expose that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy Finkel spoke of the struggles of the many thousands of war veterans with post-traumatic stress issues.
(Note to organizers: If you have librarians in your audience DO NOT misspell the name of Judy Blume.)Īnd Sunday morning, it turned sobering again, as David Finkel, author of the riveting and devastating Thank You for Your Service, shared the podium with Taya Kyle, widow of slain sniper Chris Kyle. Late Saturday, things got downright silly, as Aslan and authors Elena Passarello and Robin Sloan competed on stage at an East Austin bar in “Nerd Jeopardy,” while the announcer was heckled by a cluster of possibly tipsy young librarians on grammatical grounds. … I'm familiar enough with the religions of the world to know that they're all drinking the same exact water." … I believe what the Buddha said a long time ago, which was that if you want to strike water, you don't dig six 1-foot wells. Aslan's spirited conversation with Owen Egerton included discussion of why he left Christianity to practice Islam: "I studied world religions, and I was confronted with this fundamental, undeniable fact, which is that they're all saying the exact same thing. Best-selling writers such as Scott Anderson ( Lawrence in Arabia) and Reza Aslan ( Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth) spoke to spillover crowds of hundreds of people.
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