Fall E book Festivals Return

After two years of coping with Covid restrictions, fall guide festivals returned in earnest this yr, offering readers alternatives to interact with a few of publishing’s best-known authors.

The Portland E book Competition returned as a totally in-person occasion on November 5, attracting greater than 5,000 attendees and 100 authors and presenters, together with Kwame Alexander, Reza Aslan, Selma Blair, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Juhea Kim, Colin Meloy, George Saunders, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Along with author-led panels and discussions, the daylong occasion featured readings on the Portland Artwork Museum, writing workshops for youth and adults, and a devoted stage for teenagers’ storytime and actions. The pageant was held as a hybrid digital occasion in 2020 and 2021.

Greater than 40,000 attendees got here out to the twenty seventh Texas E book Competition weekend, November 5–6, which included greater than 250 authors who have been featured on panels and in discussions, together with Janet Evanovich and James Beard Award winner Jacques Pepin. BookPeople served because the official Texas E book Competition bookseller and was on web site promoting books.