Bibliophiles come in all sorts of skin bindings, page palettes and an assortment of thicknesses and tallness. Gathering book people together happens when local folks organize to put on a book fair or festival. Those come in all sizes and genres too. Even the current First Librarian Lady gets into the gig with her big event on the Washington mall named the national Book Festival. For the past eight years, this event kicks off for the bow tie and formal gown bookies with Laura Bush inviting a host of authors - this final year including herself and her daughter, Jenna, to present works at various pavilions.On the other side of America, the 7th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair has 400 authors playing to an erudite, hipster laid back LA crowd in a park. In San Francisco, home of the West Coast cultured literati and big earthquakes comes the aptly named Litquake. Litquake morphs into Litcrawl then deigns to visit the outpost of Manhattan.
Book gatherings of this sort are manna for booklovers like me for the panel discussions. It affords the deeper understanding of author intent and displays the scope of detailed research that goes into penning book, be it a novel or footnoted seventh wonder of the nonfiction world. The other bonus is being around authors and seeing how their forceful writing may come from somebody who mumbles. Great stuff.
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