Sat, Nov 14
|Texas Capitol - Auditorium
Torch x Texas Book Festival featuring Deesha Philyaw and LaToya Watkins
Join us at the Texas Book Festival for this special panel!
Time & Location
Nov 14, 2026, 3:00 PM
Texas Capitol - Auditorium, 1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701, USA
About the event
Join us for a conversation featuring Deesha Philyaw, author of The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, and LaToya Watkins, author of The Book of Chuck! A book signing will follow.
This event is free and open to the public.
Family legacies are rarely simple, as LaToya Watkins and Deesha Philyaw prove in their latest novels. The Book of Chuck follows a Texas family across generations as they reckon with an inherited ability to foresee death, a curse that forces long buried secrets to the surface. In The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, Scharisse Freeman's life as a megachurch first lady takes an unexpected turn when a malicious scandal threatens to destroy the carefully curated life she’s built. Join the authors – in conversation with Torch founder Amanda Johnston — for a discussion about belonging, complex family bonds and faith in the unknown.