Boston Book Festival 2017

Louisa Kasdon is the founder and CEO of Let’s Talk About Food, a Boston based organization that creates events to engage the public. A former owner of three restaurants, she happily made the transition from preparing food to writing about it. She is the food editor of the Bosto... Read More →

Crystal King is the author of FEAST OF SORROW, about the ancient Roman gourmand, Apicius. A culinary enthusiast and marketing expert, her writing is fueled by a love of history and a passion for the food, language, and culture of Italy. She has taught classes in writing, creativi... Read More →

Louise Miller is the author of the novels The City Baker's Guide to Country Living and The Late Bloomers' Club, forthcoming in 2018. She is a professional pastry chef, an art school dropout, an amateur flower gardener, an old-time banjo player, an obsessive moviegoer, and a champion of old dogs... Read More →

Maria Speck is the award-winning author of the new SIMPLY ANCIENT GRAINS, and ANCIENT GRAINS FOR MODERN MEALS. She has been interviewed on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Jamie Oliver’s website, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC), Wisconsin Public Radio, the Bost... Read More →

Dariel Suarez is Head of Faculty and Curriculum at GrubStreet (grubstreet.org). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review.

Established in 2014, The Boston Literary District is the first cultural district in the United States dedicated to letters. Our mission is to work with local writers, educational and literary organizations to raise the profile of Boston as a literary city and to increase particip... Read More →

Originally hatched in a San Francisco pub in 1999, Litstock debuted as a free one-day reading series in Golden Gate Park. Founding writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware realized quickly that book lovers craved something grander. Against the backdrop of a technology-crazed San Francisco, writers were still drawn to the city, and readers still appreciated the written word. | | In 2002, the festival was rechristened Litquake, and began expanding its programming to include all elements of the Bay Area literary scene. In 2004, the festival inaugurated an immediately successful closing night Lit Crawl bacchanal throughout the... Read More →

A new journal of arts and ideas based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.