my name is dan oppenheimer. i m a writer here in austin, the director of public affairs for the college of liberal arts at ut austin. i ve been doing this book festival. think for going on 14 or 15 years with the notable exception of some recent events that prevented all of us from gathering in the way that we ve become accustomed to. it s one of my favorite events here in austin and. i appreciate you all coming out and. it s exciting for me to be hosting this panel, city of secrets, which i just noticed 8 seconds ago is essentially a combination of the titles of. the two books that we ll be talking about today. so just to give you a quick run of show, i m going to introduce jamie and catherine. i ll talk to them for about a half hour and then we ll do about 15 minutes of questions from the audience. you ll see a microphone that s back in the middle aisle. so i ll give you a heads up when we re a few minutes away from the question session and you can up behind that and ask qu
my name is dan oppenheimer. i m a writer here in austin, the director of public affairs for the college of liberal arts at ut austin. i ve been doing this book festival. think for going on 14 or 15 years with the notable exception of some recent events that prevented all of us from gathering in the way that we ve become accustomed to. it s one of my favorite events here in austin and. i appreciate you all coming out and. it s exciting for me to be hosting this panel, city of secrets, which i just noticed 8 seconds ago is essentially a combination of the titles of. the two books that we ll be talking about today. so just to give you a quick run of show, i m going to introduce jamie and catherine. i ll talk to them for about a half hour and then we ll do about 15 minutes of questions from the audience. you ll see a microphone that s back in the middle aisle. so i ll give you a heads up when we re a few minutes away from the question session and you can up behind that and ask qu