Things I am looking forward to at the inaugural Boston Book Festival on Oct. 24 (times and venues TBA):
- Nobel Prize winner and keynote speaker Orhan Pamuk talks about life and love and his new book, "The Museum of Innocence." Even host Christopher Lydon will have to let a Nobel winner get a few words in, right?
- "Heroes" producer Tim Kring and "T.S. Spivet" creator Reif Larson talk about cross-media storytelling (Kring) and how marginalia and drawings add to a book (Larson) in a conversation called "Between the Lines and Outside the Margins."
"Boston Noir" anthology launch features editor Dennis Lehane (right) and my old college paper colleague Brendan DuBois, among several others.- Robert Pinsky gives a poetry-as-music reading backed up by jazz musicians Rakalam Bob Moses and Andrew Urbina.
- Novelist Tom Perrotta interviews his former student John "I'm a PC" Hodgman in what ought to be the funniest panel of the day.
Also on the bill: Andre Dubus III and Joseph Finder (on the same panel, oddly), Anitas Diamant and Shreve (on the same panel, not so oddly), Richard Russo, Ben Mezrich, Chris Van Allsburg, and Henry Louis Gates. It's been tweeted elsewhere, so I might as well tell you that you can read the whole release
here if you want. And yay, I got through this entire item without mentioning that actress and celebrity vegetarian Alicia Silverstone will be there...oh,
damn.
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