Saratoga Book Festival Returns
The Saratoga Book Festival, now celebrating its sixth citywide celebration of books, returns October 1-4 to downtown Saratoga Springs, New York. This year’s festival includes a blockbuster lineup of talented writers and presenters. All programs over the weekend offer free admission. To learn more about festival authors, see the full schedule of interviews, readings, youth programs, and special events such as the annual Literary Night Market and Local Author Showcase, and Sunday KidZone, see saratogabookfestival.org
Highlights:
Julia Alvarez, internationally acclaimed writer (Visitations, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, In the Time of the Butterflies, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) joins Northshire Bookstore’s Rachel Person for an interview and reading.
Chris Bohjalian, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives, The Lioness, and The Flight Attendant, talks about his latest blockbuster hit The Amateur with Joe Donahue, host of WAMC’s The Book Show and Round Table.
Mai Corland, bestselling fantasy author, leads a romantasy tea and book chat with author Lauren Blackwood for tea and biscuits as they chat about their new fantasy/romance novels Verity Guild (Corland) and The Queen’s Bodyguard (Blackwood) with Caitlin Sheldon, SSPL Librarian.
Christine Kuehn talks about Family of Spies, the never-before-told story of her family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Matt Witten moderates.
Joan Lunden, former longtime host of Good Morning America, speaker, and bestselling author will appear in a headline event at Skidmore College’s Zankel Music Hall, to chat about her new book Joan Lunden: Life Beyond the Script, with three-time Emmy winner and local author Julie Chapman.
Francine Prose, an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction and frequent faculty member of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, will speak about her new historical novel Five Weeks in the Country in a conversation with Halimah Marcus, a Yaddo artist, writer, and founder of Electric Literature on Saturday, October 3rd.
Coffee and Crosswords: Chandi Deitmer, Kate Hawkins & Erica Wojcik are friends who met over their love of crosswords. The three provide tips and inside info about creating and solving great puzzles. Led by Saratoga Living’s Natalie Moore. Free cup of coffee and a pastry for attendees!
Political Appetites, Culinary Historian Nancy Siegel uncovers foods that could signify whether your neighbor was Loyalist or Patriot in a wide-ranging talk with Saratoga County Historian Lauren Roberts. Samples of Federal Cake and Election Cake will be served.