Boston Book Festival

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2011 Event Descriptions

Far Out Fiction

4:30pm Trinity Church Sanctuary 206 Clarendon Street

In this blockbuster grouping of four of America's most imaginative talents, Gregory Maguire speaks about his soon to be released Out of Oz, in which social unrest plagues the Emerald City and Karen Russell presents her much acclaimed debut novel, Swamplandia, while pop culture vulture Chuck Klosterman reveals his latest work of fiction, The Invisible Man. Kate Beaton will round out the session with her witty drawings of historic and literary characters navigating the modern world in Hark! A Vagrant. Hosted by Boston Phoenix's Eugenia Williamson. Sponsored by Google Books.