NEWBURYPORT – The popular Newburyport Literary Festival will not kick off for another six months, which for some book lovers is too long.
So, the festival, scheduled for April 24-26 for its 21st year, has added two events this month, featuring local authors.
USA Today-bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore will engage in a conversation about her latest novel, Mansion Beach, with novelist-journalist Holly Robinson at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23 at The Joy Nest, 50 Water St.
And at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, local historian Ghlee Woodworth will lead an hour-long tour of the Old Hill Burying Ground, 25 Greenleaf Street. The walking tour, which honors the 250th anniversary of the Road to the American Revolution, will visit graves of revolutionary so1diers and other locals. Ghlee will share excerpts from their diaries and writings.
Goodreads called Moore’s ninth novel, which is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, a “sparkling new novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors on Block Island, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets and a not-so-subtle love triangle.”
Robinson has published a memoir and five novels under her name and ghostwritten 14 non-fiction books.
Tickets to the conversation between Moore and Robinson are $30, or $60, including a copy of Mansion Beach. The event has a cash bar and light snacks, and Moore will be available to sign books.
Purchase tickets at newburyportliteraryfestival.org/book-club-the-joy-nest.
The fee for the cemetery walk is $25.
All proceeds go to support the festival in the spring.
Newburyport Bank and the Institution for Savings are sponsors of the festival. Additional support is provided by The Charles & Marianne Small Charitable Foundation, The Rotary Club, The Mosley Foundation, Newburyport Cultural Council, Newburyport Friends of the
Library and Bradford & Bigelow printers, among many individual supporters and patrons. ♦
