Boston Book Festival

111121_BBF_Blog - Images by Mike Ritter

More and more things are going digital, but I believe there will always be a place for book with a spine and pages. Last month, I was privileged to shoot the Boston Book Festival. While plenty of e-stuff was happening, I saw plenty of people buying the real thing from the various vendors on site including the Harvard Bookstore.

On Friday night, there was a Wire symposium. Among others, Jaime Hector who played Marlo was there. When I met him backstage, I was a bit intimidated having only seen him in (scary) character on TV before, but he was the nicest guy.

Then on Saturday, I bounced between 4 venues downtown stopping in on discussions on Steampunk, writing Memoirs, How to Live (not a very ambitious topic, I know), the Civil War, children's author Mo Willems and Sports Writing. Even though I was moving all day, I don't think I saw 20% of the things going on. By day's end, my path would cross with WBUR's Tom Ashbrook, Bill Littlefield, Richard Russo, Governor Patrick, and Michael Ondaatje. I also got a good excuse to get into the tower of Old South and look out over all of Copley. It was an exhilarating day. Kudos to the BFF staff for pulling off another festival of fascinating programs and people.