Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2009 Event Descriptions

And Now For Something Completely Different

2:30 p.m., Trinity Church Forum

The authors here have imagined some of the quirkiest characters we’ve seen. Jessica Anthony is the winner of McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award and the author of the new novel, The Convalescent. Artist R. Sikoryak delivers comic book adaptations of literary classics in Masterpiece Comics. Paul Tremblay’s debut novel, The Little Sleep, is a neo-noir mystery. Hosted by Jennifer Haigh, winner of the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction and author of the new novel, The Condition.

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Jessica Anthony

R. Sikoryak

Paul Tremblay

Jennifer Haigh