Today I am in Western Massachusetts to attend this weekend's Amherst College Lit Fest. While the event is sold out, I have been told that there will be a live stream of all the events here.
But look at what they will have. From the landing page:
Amherst College will host the 10th annual LitFest, a literary festival celebrating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken-word performance, and the College’s extraordinary literary life. Guest speakers include award-winning author Teju Cole; Pulitzer Prize winner Brandon Som; Paisley Rekdal; Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic; and a special panel on the making of American Fiction with writer and director Cord Jefferson, lead actor Jeffrey Wright ’87, and Percival Everett, author of Erasure, the novel upon which the film is based.
Go here for the entire schedule.
I cannot wait to see the conversation with Percival Everett. As readers here know, I love is writing. I hope I get a chance to ask him about his brilliant use of the word "nothing" in Dr No. Click here to read my review where I write about this. And I might because I will be at the reception after his talk with him in a smaller social setting.
Follow me on bluesky for live updates from the weekend including pictures of me hanging out with recent Bram Stoker nominee Emily Hughes all day Saturday!
I would also suggest scrolling to the bottom of the landing page to watch videos from 2024's event.
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