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October 21, 2011 - The Simmons Voice

Boston Book Festival Returns Bigger and Better

http://www.thesimmonsvoice.com/boston-book-fest-returns-bigger-and-better-1.2660465#.Tq

 

October 18, 2011 - The Harvard Crimson

A Boston Bustling with Books

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/18/boston-book-festival-writers/

 

October 17, 2011 - The Daily Free Press (BU)

Bookworms Unite for Annual Festival

http://dailyfreepress.com/2011/10/17/bookworms-unite-for-annual-boston-festival/

 

October 17, 2011 - The BU Quad

Book It to the Boston Book Festival

http://buquad.com/2011/10/17/28745/

 

October 17, 2011 - Examiner.com

Boston Book Festival: An Attendee's Experience

http://www.examiner.com/book-reviews-in-boston/boston-book-festival-an-attendee-s-experience

 

October 17, 2011 - Examiner.com

Bookworms Unite at the Boston Book Festival

http://www.examiner.com/geek-culture-in-boston/bookworms-unite-at-boston-book-festival

 

October 16, 2011 - Quincy Patriot Ledger

Authors, Bookworms Mingle at Boston Book Festival

http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x597432453/Authors-bookworms-mingle-at-Boston-Book-Festival

 

October 15, 2011 - The Boston Globe

Prominent Authors, Thousands of Bookworms, Expected at Festival

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/10/prominent-authors-thousands-bookworms-expected-festival/sGpAU2pNtQ2feVmf1cpo7N/index.html

 

October 15, 2011 - Boston Herald

Book Fest Looks Forward to Next Chapter in Publishing

http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/view/2011_1015book_fest_looks_forward_to_next_chapter_in_publishing/srvc=home&position=also

 

October 15, 2011 - Boston Herald

Readers Have Rainbow of Options

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/view.bg?articleid=1373456

 

October 15, 2011 - BostInnovation

Boston Book Festival Sets Out to Prove Reading Isn't Boring

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/10/15/boston-book-festival-sets-out-to-prove-reading-isnt-boring/

 

October 13, 2011 - Bay State Banner

Boston Book Festival Panel Discusses The Wire

http://www.baystatebanner.com/local17-2011-10-13

 

October 13, 2011 - Quincy Patriot Ledger

Boston Book Festival to Feature Hundreds of Authors, Thousands of Ideas

http://www.enterprisenews.com/entertainment/x617626449/Boston-Book-Festival-to-feature-hundreds-of-authors-thousands-of-ideas

 

October 12, 2011 - Publishers Weekly

The Boston Book Festival Turns Three

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events/article/49061-the-boston-book-festival-turns-three.html

 

October 2011 - Boston Magazine

All Lit Up: The Boston Book Festival Turns Three

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts_entertainment/articles/all_lit_up_boston_book_festival_2011/

 

September 30, 2011 - The Tech (MIT)

One City One Story: More Than One Scarlet Letter?

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N41/bbf.html

 

September 15, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor

One City, One Book: What 5 Cities Chose to Read

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2011/0915/One-City-One-Book-what-5-cities-chose-to-read/Boston-The-Whore-s-Child-by-Richard-Russo

 

June 21, 2011 - Boston Globe

Russo Work Chosen for Boston Book Festival's One Story Program

http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-21/ae/29684191_1_story-program-short-story-library-branches

 

October 20, 2010 - massnonprofit.org

Boston Book Festival Success Sets Stage for Greater Growth

http://www.massnonprofit.org/news.php?artid=2137&catid=12

 

October 18, 2010 - The Tufts Daily

Surviving the Boston Book Festival: A literary adventure in Copley Square

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/surviving-the-boston-book-festival-a-literary-adventure-in-copley-square-1.2372360

 

October 18, 2010 - Boston University's Daily Free Press 

Authors bring literature alive at Boston Book Festival

http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/authors-bring-literature-alive-at-boston-book-festival-1.2372258

 

October 18, 2010 - Christian Science Monitor

Joyce Carol Oates makes them laugh, makes them squirm, in Boston

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/1018/Joyce-Carol-Oates-makes-them-laugh-makes-them-squirm-in-Boston

 

October 18, 2010 - Boston.com's Culture Desk

Boston Book Festival keeps growing

http://www.boston.com/ae/specials/culturedesk/2010/10/boston_book_festival_keeps_gro.html?comments=all#readerComm

 

October 15, 2010 - Boston Phoenix

Boston Book Festival Bingo 2010

http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/110090-boston-book-festival-bingo-2010/

 

October 15, 2010 - Boston Globe

Words and music - Kristin Hersh joins a lineup of literary rock stars for showcase

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/10/15/kristin_hersh_joins_a_lineup_of_literary_rock_stars_for_the_book_revue/

 

October 15, 2010 - Boston Globe

Spreading the words

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/10/15/spreading_the_word_of_the_boston_book_festival/

 

October 15, 2010 - Boston Globe

Boston Book Festival events run the gamut

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/10/15/boston_book_festival_events_run_the_gamut/

 

October 14, 2010 - Edge Boston

Eclectic mix @ the Boston Book Festival

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=books&sc2=&sc3=&id=111597

 

October 13, 2010 - Fox morning news

All-star literary event: Boston Book Festival

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/all-star-literary-event-boston-book-festival-20101013

 

October 10, 2010 - Boston Globe

Against All Odds: Deborah Porter Brings A Book Festival Back To Boston 

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/10/10/deborah_porter_brings_a_book_festival_back_to_boston/ 

 

September 23, 2010 - Phoenix Online

Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Kristin Hersh, Dean Wareham, Joe Pernice added to Boston Book Festival nightcap

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/onthedownload/archive/2010/09/23/nick-zinner-yeah-yeah-yeahs-kristin-hersh-dean-wareham-joe-pernice-added-to-boston-book-festival-nightcap.aspx

 

September 23, 2010 - HubArts.com

Boston Book Festival - now with music!

http://www.hubarts.com/weblog/2010/09/boston-book-festival-now-with-music.html

 

September 9, 2010 - Bostonist.com

Short Story Leads Up to Boston Book Festival on Oct. 16

http://bostonist.com/2010/09/09/short_story_leads_up_to_boston_book.php

 

August 30, 2010 - Boston.com

Binding Boston with a story

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/08/30/binding_boston_with_a_story/

 

August 29, 2010 - Phoenix Online

Now it can be told: Boston to read Perrotta

http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/107328-now-it-can-be-told-boston-to-read-perrotta/

 

August 26, 2010 - WBUR

One City One Story: Boston Launches Short Story Program

http://www.wbur.org/2010/08/26/one-city-one-story

 

July 1, 2010 - Berkshire Fine Arts

Second Annual Boston Book Festival

http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article&article_id=1781&catID=11

 

June 6, 2010 - Blast

Bringing Boston together, one short story at a time

http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/culturefashion/arts/the-literary/2010/06/bringing-boston-together-one-short-story-at-a-time/

 

January 31, 2010 - Boston Globe

Best of the New 2010

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/bestofnew10?pg=2 

 

October 29, 2009 - The Bay State Banner

First Boston Book Festival attracts both young and old

http://www.baystatebanner.com/local17-2009-10-29

 

October 28, 2009 - Blue Rose Girls (Blog) 

Boston Book Festival

http://bluerosegirls.blogspot.com/2009/10/boston-book-festival.html

 

October 27, 2009 - Phoenix Online

The PHlog - Podcast and accompanying article:

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2009/10/27/podcast-dennis-lehane-on-boston-noir-from-the-boston-book-festival.aspx

 

October 27, 2009 - Unreliable Narrator (Blog)

Boston Book Festival Recap

http://smithdell.blogspot.com/2009/10/boston-book-festival-recap.html

 

October 26, 2009 - Boston Neighborhood Network News

Chris Harding of Boston's Neighborhood Network News captured the Festival feel, plus Spoken Word, Hodgman/Perrotta, children's events and storyteller Irene Smalls.

VIDEO: http://vimeo.com/7279387

 

October 26, 2009 - Jon22.net (Blog)

The wild Hodgman, as seen in his natural habitat

http://www.jon22.net/the-wild-hodgman-as-seen-in-his-natural-habitat/

 

October 26, 2009 - Vernacular, the Emerson College Writing, Literature & Publishing Graduate Student Blog

Boston Book Festival - Chris Van Allsburg

http://v.tgdn.net/2009/10/boston-book-festival-chris-van-allsburg.html


October 25, 2009 - Flyby Blog at Harvard Crimson

Boston Book Festival--a Nerd's Paradise

http://www.flybyblog.com/2009/10/25/boston-book-festival-a-nerd-paradise/

 

October 25, 2009 - Pink Apron (Blog)

Meeting Cookbook Authors at the Boston Book Festival

http://pink-apron.com/2009/10/meeting-cookbook-authors-at-the-boston-book-festival/

 

October 25, 2009 - Culture Junkie (Blog) 

Boston Book Fest

http://ow.ly/wrZP

 

October 20, 2009‎ - Bostonist

Interview with Boston Book Festival Participant Nicholas Negroponte

http://bostonist.com/2009/10/20/boston_book_festival_technology_nicholas_negroponte.php

 

October 21, 2009 - Boston Herald

Book it to Copley Square for literary fest

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/view/20091022book_it_to_copley_square_for_literary_fest/srvc=home&position=also

 

October 22, 2009 - Boston Globe

Don’t Miss the Boston Book Festival Saturday

http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2009/10/dont_miss_the_b.html

 

October 23, 2009 - Boston Globe

Is this the end? Some people think book publishing is in its final throes. The Boston Book Festival begs to differ.

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/23/some_people_think_book_publishing_is_in_its_final_throes_the_boston_book_festival_begs_to_differ/

 

October 18, 2009 - Boston.com

Writers Out Loud

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/18/boston_book_festival_features_90_authors/

 

October 15, 2009 - Dorcester Reporter

Lehane to launch "Boston Noir" at Book Festival

http://www.dotnews.com/2009/lehane-launch-boston-noir-book-festival



October 15, 2009 - Bay State Banner

Prize-winning Authors to Grace Boston Book Festival

http://www.baystatebanner.com/local18-2009-10-15

 

October 8, 2009 - HubArts.com

Boston Book Festival Schedule and Locations Announced

http://www.hubarts.com/weblog/2009/10/boston-book-fest-schedule-and-locations.html

 

September 15, 2009 – Boston Globe

Kidd In Town

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/more_names/blog/2009/09/kidd_in_town.html

 

September 14, 2009  – HubArts.com

Boston Book Festival Highlights

http://www.hubarts.com/weblog/2009/09/boston-book-festival-highlights.html

 

June 25, 2009 – ArtsDaily.org

Chip Kidd to Design Poster for Inaugural Boston Book Festival

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31649

 

May 6, 2009 – Boston Globe “Off The Shelf” Blog

Marriage of Tech and Books In Boston

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2009/05/technoliteracy.html

 

May 5, 2009 – Survival of the Book (Blog)

Boston IS a Literary City!

http://booksurvival.blogspot.com/search?q=boston+book+festival

 

May 5, 2009 – Boston Globe

Technology Will Be The Subtext in Boston Book Festival This Fall

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/05/05/technology_will_be_the_subtext_in_boston_book_festival_this_fall/

 

May 5, 2009 – Publishers Weekly

Boston Book Festival Slated For October

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6656045.html

 

May 4, 2009 – HubArts.com

Boston Book Festival set for Oct. 24 in Copley Sq.

http://www.hubarts.com/weblog/2009/05/boston-book-festival-set-for-oct-24-in-copley-square.html