Posted on October 20, 2013October 20, 2013Getting Literary at the 2013 Boston Book Festival #bbf2013 A beautiful day for the Boston Book Festival, Oct. 19 Copley Square was already crowded by 11:30 a.m. First stop, of course, the Massachusetts Libraries and Massachusetts Center for the Book booth! A view of the Boston Public Library from the Great Lawn Another view of the booths on the Boylston Street side The Berklee Poetry Slam team performed at noon No shaky voices on the Berklee Festival Stage Heading towards Trinity Church for my first panel discussion Both panel discussions I attended were held in the sanctuary of Trinity Church. Novelist Kim McLarin moderated a discussion of tragedy in fiction with Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon, and Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Back outside, the Brattle booth was always crowded with people browsing for used books. New Hampshire publisher Hobblebush was featuring a book that imagines Ben Franklin coming back in the 21st century. A long line waiting to get in line for the afternoon Fiction: Domestic Disturbances panel My pew wasn’t too far back. WBUR host Robin Young moderated this panel. Novelists George Harrar, Ann Leary, J. Courtney Sullivan, and Tom Perrotta, with moderator Robin Young I didn’t go in the library this year at all. Next year…book blogger meet-up at the library cafe! a Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading...