LitFest: Illuminating Great Writing & Amherst College’s Literary Life

Beginning tonight, I will be attending, in person, the Amherst College LitFest 2024. From the website:

Amherst College will host the 9th annual LitFest, a literary festival celebrating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and spoken-word performance, along with the College’s extraordinary literary life. Guest speakers include award-winning authors Natasha Trethewey, Paul Harding, Ed Yong, Blair Kamin ’79 P’15, Lisa Biggs ’93, and other distinguished editors and authors. 

I am not posting this to brag, but rather because many of the LitFest events will be webcast live, for free. So if you want, you can watch too. Also, if you live within a comfortable driving distance from Amherst, MA, I want to encourage you to come and attend for free. 

I am excited to see Ed Yong again, after meeting him at the Andrew Carnegie Medals Ceremony (click here to follow my journey on the ACM committee where we chose Yong for the Nonfiction Medal), to hear National Book Award Winner Justin Torres speak, and to attend all day Saturday with my colleague Emily Hughes.

And eagle-eyed schedule scanners may notice a familiar last name in the description of the Saturday at 3pm program which is available in person and as a webcast. I am obviously especially excited for that one.

You can click here for the entire schedule and here for the specific webcast schedule and to watch those programs directly from that page.

Click on the image for the schedule
and to signup for webcasts