Boston Book Festival 2009 Recap Video

The mission of the Boston Book Festival is to celebrate the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire by holding an annual Festival that highlights the importance of literacy and literature in our culture. For the inaugural Boston Book Festival in 2009, more than 12,000 readers of all ages from across Greater Boston and New England came to Copley Square and The Boston Public Library, Old South Church and Trinity Church to attend talks and sessions by more than 90 world-renowned authors and presenters including a Nobel Prize winner, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, a two-time Caldecott Medal Winner, a former US Poet Laureate, and dozens of New York Times bestselling authors. More than 40 local businesses and nonprofit organizations showcased their goods and services, and music groups performed live in the bustling Copley Square street fair. The 2nd annual Boston Book Festival will be held Saturday, October 16, 2010. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.bostonbookfest.org.

Video Production by: Paula Aguilera, Jonathan Williams, The Boston Phoenix, WGBH
Photography by: Norman Lang, Matt Teuten, Mike Ritter

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Travel & Events

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• Anita Shreve
• Anita Diamant
• Ken Burns
• Michael Porter
• David Gergen
• John Hodgman
• Cornel West
• Richard Russo
• Orhan Pamuk
• Alicia Silverstone