Philadelphia Book Festival - next week

Dear Friends,

I wanted to give you a heads up about a wonderful Philadelphia tradition, now in it's third year - the Philadelphia Book Festival at the main branch of our wonderful Free Library of Philadelpia.  I've been involved from the first year and seen it grow in delightful ways. This year the event starts on Sunday with a Harry Potter Tea Party, there's an evening lecture on poetry on Monday with Garrison Keillor, Tina Fey will give a talk later in the week and Mt. Airy's own Amy Ignatow will do a workshop based on her best selling series, The Popularity Papers on Wednesday. The release of the late David Foster Wallace's last book, on the life of an IRS agent will be released on April 15 and there will be a talk on his work by Ken Kalfus that evening.

Saturday April 16 will be THE BIG DAY with children book illustrator Chris Van Allsburg, and kids author Walter Dean Myers doing workshops and signings. Yours truly will ave a BOOK BOOTH right on Vine Street in the front of the library and we'll be introducing the rest of the city to our bookstore, our concert season, our yard sale etc. There will be live music throughout the day, the Give and Take Jugglers from Mt. Airy will be entertaining throughout the Festival and a grand time will be had for all. I hope you'll come and support this event, stop and say hi to us, and have a great time.

See you there,

Greg