Fall for the Book Begins September 18: I'm Ready!
There are some great authors scheduled for this year's Fall for the Book in Fairfax (and beyond). I have two words for you: Stephen King. Two more: Amy Tan. Actually, that's not even my immediate reading list. Every year, the festival has many great authors, and I have to pick and choose which events I can attend. For this year's festival, I plan to attend the events featuring Abraham Verghese ( Cutting for Stone , the author's first novel) and Conor Grennan ( Little Princes , a memoir). I already read Natasha Tretheway 's 2007 Pultizer Prize-winning poetry collection, Native Guard , multiple times, and it is in my library collection. (If I don't excavate my copy this weekend, I shall be purchasing another copy for her to autograph at her reading next week.) Needless to say, I have read books by the "headliners." My first exposure to 2011's Fairfax Award-winner Amy Tan was The Joy Luck Club , which was touching yet sweepi...