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Each week, we will share some of the fantastic authors, performers, and literary exhibitors scheduled to appear at this year's fest!
Highlights for Adults
John Quiñones | Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices
Saturday, April 18, Bank of America Main Stage
John Quiñones is a co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine Primetime, a correspondent for 20/20, and the sole anchor of the popular Primetime limited series What Would You Do?, which uses hidden cameras to capture people's unscripted reactions to compelling ethical dilemmas. In a career spanning more than two decades, Quiñones has earned seven national Emmy Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award's Grand Prize for International Reporting, among many other distinctions. In Heroes Among Us, which grew out of his work on What Would You Do?, Quiñones captures the courage and dignity of average American heroes.
Fun for the Family
Baby Loves Salsa
Sunday, April 19, Target Children's Stage
Featuring some of the brightest stars in contemporary salsa music--including singer Jose Conde and Grammy-winning producer Aaron "Luis" Levinson--Baby Loves Salsa is a group of kittens and puppies (gattitos y perritos) from New York City who become the best salsa band in the land! Part of the Baby Loves Music family, which includes Baby Loves Jazz, Baby Loves Hip Hop, and Baby Loves Disco, Baby Loves Salsa--called "the best musical value of the season" by the Parents Music Council--helps kids learn about salsa music and Spanish in a way in which parents and children can enjoy together.
2009 Free Library Festival Artist Tim Gough
Tim Goughis an artist living and working in Philadelphia. He has created imagery for publications ranging from the New York Times to Bust magazine, from PC magazine to Swindle. Before striking out on his own, he worked for several agencies and design firms as a designer and art director. In between hitting deadlines, he can be found in the screen printing studio and working on his own zine called cut and paste. Alongside his current editorial work and the posters he designs for concerts, he shows his prints and drawings in galleries nationwide.
Later this month, watch Free Library Festival posters and banners pop up across town--and at the fest, get your own a one-of-a-kind 2009 Festival t-shirt!
Exhibitor Spotlight
The Free Library Festival's Street Fair & Literary Marketplace is the place for readers to discover new writers and explore what's new in the literary world. We're also excited to say that exhibitor booths sold-out for the third straight year! Welcome 2009 Festival Exhibitors, including...
McSweeney's Publishing
Founded by bestselling author Dave Eggers, McSweeney's Publishing produces the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, monthly magazine The Believer--featuring columns by Amy Sedaris, Nick Hornby, and new work by Festival artist Tim Gough--and the quarterly DVD magazine Wholphin, in addition to a daily-updated website. Its ever-growing book list features authors like Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philipp Meyer.
n+1 Magazine
POLITICS, LITERATURE, CULTURE -- Imprinted.
Containing "pointed, closely argued and often brilliantly original critiques of contemporary life and letters," n+1 Magazineis "a generational struggle against laziness and cynicism, to raise once again the banners of creative enthusiasm and intellectual engagement," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times Magazine. n+1 is a twice-yearly print journal of politics, literature, and culture that publishes new content weekly online.
Wooden Shoe Books & Records
An All Volunteer Radical Collective
A collectively-run anarchist bookstore, Wooden Shoe Books and Records carries thousands of book titles as well as music, 'zines, t-shirts, and more. The bookstore derives its name from the early period of the Industrial Revolution, when French workers who were forced to work for agonizingly long hours began jamming their wooden shoes, or sabots--the root of the word sabotage--into the gears of machines to stop production.
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On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest! );)
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