i'm david martin davies. thank you so much for being part of this.

i'm david martin davies. thank you so much for being part of this. my name is sarah zenaida gould and i'll your moderator for this session. thank you. to the central library for helping us present this amazing day. and thank you to the juan holt family for sponsoring this beautiful venue. we encourage to share your experience today on social media and tag essay book fest. all events in this are being recorded by c-span fans book tv. so with that in mind, key, please make sure that your cell phones are silenced and please note that flash photography is not permitted. book sales and finance will take place after this session at the nowhere bookshop tent right outside in the market place. please support, your local economy and our official bookseller by buying your books here at the festival marketplace. okay now i'm going to introduce author dr. omar valerio-jimenez is professor of history, the university of texas at san antonio, and the associate director i'm sorry, the associate dean for graduate studies for college of liberal and fine arts. he was b

i'm david martin davies. thank you so much for being part of this. my name is sarah zenaida gould and i'll your moderator for this session. thank you. to the central library for helping us present this amazing day. and thank you to the juan holt family for sponsoring this beautiful venue. we encourage to share your experience today on social media and tag essay book fest. all events in this are being recorded by c-span fans book tv. so with that in mind, key, please make sure that your cell phones are silenced and please note that flash photography is not permitted. book sales and finance will take place after this session at the nowhere bookshop tent right outside in the market place. please support, your local economy and our official bookseller by buying your books here at the festival marketplace. okay now i'm going to introduce author dr. omar valerio-jimenez is professor of history, the university of texas at san antonio, and the associate director i'm sorry, the associate dean for graduate studies for college of liberal and fine arts. he was b

but so we're talking about the southwest of the united states and originally i should say i'm david martin davies from texas public radio. introduce myself and our authors, kyle pallotta. and this is his book, american oasis. going to talk about him first. the second, the first. originally when we were at the of talking about the book festival and having this book festival, we're going to have a panel and we're going to be with richard parker with this book, the crossing el paso, the southwest and the america's forgotten origin story. and he was making the case about his hometown of el paso being a central american city. if not these central american city, in defining what american identity looks like and diving into the history and and also the present and what the future like for el paso, texas. and unfortunately, richard parker, we lost. shortly after the book is published. and so he can join us today. but the book is substantial. it has weight. it is a great read and think. these two books do pair up very well. and so i just wanted to acknowledge richard and his work and he is missed and he w