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What’s the story with *One Story* ?

Here’s something neat I discovered at the Boston Book Fest … One Story!

One Story is a small press in Brooklyn (the address is “The Old American Can Factory” – you can’t make this stuff up!).  They publish ONE STORY for subscribers every three weeks.  The reasons for delivering in this format are many – the [...]

November 4th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: author event | 8 comments

Boston Book Fest: meet-ups, tweet-ups, near misses and the blooper reels!

In addition to hearing from some fabulous authors at Saturday’s Boston Book Fest, I was able to meet some of the “imaginary friends” I converse with via blogs and on Twitter.  Here’s a quick run-down of my close encounters of the bookish kind:

The day started out wet and windy, so we were all donning rain [...]

October 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: author event | 18 comments

Boston Book Fest: quick re-cap

Yesterday, October 24, was the inaugural Boston Book Festival.  There have been book fests in Boston in the past, but this was the first under this name, with this leadership.  Despite the wet, windy weather, the event drew a huge enthusiastic crowd, and is considered a great success.

There were six categories of events (I’m using [...]

October 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: author event | 22 comments

Going to Boston Book Fest? Wanna Meet-Up?

The Boston Book Festival is coming up – Saturday, October 24th in Copley Square!

Check out this list of authors who will be at the Boston Book Fest, including Ken Burns, Anita Diamant, Joseph Finder, Kathleen Kent … it goes on and on!

This event is a must-do for book lovers in Massachusetts, Southern New Hampshire, Rhode [...]

August 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: In the News, bookish musings | 8 comments