The Library Foundation will celebrate the Mayor's Book Club 2023 selection, Mr. Texas by Pulitzer Prize-winning Austin author Lawrence Wright. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson will introduce Wright for an author talk moderated by Emily Ramshaw, CEO and co-founder of the news site, The 19th. A book signing will follow.

A sharply drawn send-up of Texas politics, Mr. Texas is about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives.