Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Event Descriptions

How to Live

2:30pm Old South Church Sanctuary 645 Boylston Street

Join three amazing scholars as they discuss the age-old question of how to live a good life. Sarah Bakewell shares insights gleaned from writing her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book: How To Live, Or A Life of Montaigne, while Harvard's maven of multiple intelligences Howard Gardner reflects on Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed and anthropologist and ethnographer Michael Jackson discusses Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want. Moderated by art historian Joseph Koerner