Concord, Massachusetts
Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussions celebrating the written and the spoken word.
Randall Kennedy
Ha Jin
Anita Hill
Stephen Greenblatt
How You Can Participate
- Attend: Most events are free. All events are open to the public. Events that require a ticket are so indicated and include information about how and where to obtain tickets.
- Donate: The festival is produced by a non-profit foundation and depends greatly on individual support. Tax deductible donations in any amount are encouraged and can be made online.
- Sponsor: Corporate sponsorship is welcomed and is available. For information please .
Concord Festival of Authors is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council,
a stage agency
Major Sponsors:
Adam Haslett
Events: New Literary Voices 2010
Book: Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and The Atlantic Monthly among other publications. In 2006, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for accomplishment in short fiction. He has also won the PEN/Winship Award for the best book by a New England author.
Set against the backdrop of the build-up to the invasion of Iraq and completed the week Lehman Brothers collapsed, Haslett’s novel Union Atlantic revolves around four characters: Doug, a seemingly invulnerable banker; Charlotte, a retired schoolteacher; her brother Henry, who is President of the New York Federal Reserve; and Nate, a vulnerable teenager whose relationships with both Charlotte and Doug form the emotional heart of the book. Prescient and ambitious, Union Atlantic is a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age—the first decade of the twenty-first century.