Concord and Lowell, Massachusetts
Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussion celebrating the written and the spoken word.
Roy Blount Jr.
Carole Boston Weatherford
James Wood
Jennifer Haigh
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 .
Benjamin Markovits
Events: Literary Thriller Night
Book: A Quiet Adjustment
Originally from Texas, Benjamin Markovits will be a 2008-9 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. He is the author of five novels, including Imposture, the first novel in his Lord Byron Trilogy.
A Quiet Adjustment, the second novel in Markovits’s Lord Byron Trilogy, is a psychological thriller of passionate attachment and emotional cruelty, involving a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife. Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron —the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age — Markovits reimagines Byron’s marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron’s incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and obligation lead them all — and the reader — headlong to a devastating conclusion.
In addition to his fiction, Markovitz contributes to the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and other publications.