CityLit Festival 9

Saturday, April 14 is the 9th annual CityLit Festival!

The CityLit Festival is a day-long celebration (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) held at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in downtown Baltimore and presented in partnership with the CityLit Project.

According to Baltimore Magazine, “CityLit Festival is a can’t miss event on the city’s cultural scene.”

Three floors of literary activity will fill the library. The Literary Marketplace will present literary organizations, small presses, magazines, literary journals, and will even feature my own novel in stories, Tracks.

Headliners include Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Busch, Edward Hirsch, Tom Lux, Jennifer Bodine, and Jon Michaud.

Learn more about the 9th annual CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt website.

http://www.prattlibrary.org/calendar/series.aspx?folder=856


Or see the brochure here.

http://www.prattlibrary.org/uploadedFiles/www/calendar/CityLit_Festival/CityLitBrochure_2012_smallerfile.pdf


Find out more about the CityLit Project at their website.
http://www.citylitproject.org/

Almost a Presidential Blurb

This week started with a federal holiday: Presidents’ Day.

In the introduction to Tracks, the conductor quotes President Truman: “You get a real feeling of this country and the people in it when you are on a train.”


Tracks can’t boast a presidential blurb … but here’s one from the CEO and founding father of the CityLit Project!


“In an age of commuter rush, virtual friends, and novels written in 140-character bursts, Eric D. Goodman reminds us of the richness of train travel or a good book: when the pace is slower, you never know what sort of souls will greet you.”


Learn more about Gregg Wilhelm and CityLit Project.

www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=about

Learn about Harry Truman at The White House.

www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman

Hop aboard Tracks.

www.TracksNovel.com

Baltimore Book Fest Underway Now

Rain or shine, lit-lovers are in for a festive weekend. What many people in the local literary community refer to as our “literary new year” is here: The Baltimore Book Festival.


The book fest began today and is already underway. It runs through Sunday and offers a little bit of lit for everyone. The event is free and fun!


As a part of the festival, the “Lit & Art at the Watermark” series will bring fiction, poetry, non-fiction, live music and original artwork to the Baltimore Free School Lit and Language Tent on Saturday, September 24 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Featured readers include
Katherine Cottle, Barbara Morrison, Liz Mozer, Holly Myers, Rick O’Connor, Fernando Quijano III, Nitin Jagdish, and Sally Whitney. The Lit and Art house band Red Tractor Factory and Manzar will provide music. There’s even an open mic session, so bring five minutes of your own work to share, and be prepared for a short sample from Tracks.

http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com/schedule/event-detail/158/Lit-&%20Art%20&%20You


Chime in on the event’s Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=259032807452195


Then, on Sunday at 3 p.m. join me, Susi Wyss (The Civilized World) and Dave Rosenthal (The Baltimore Sun) as we discuss the novel in stories as a format, and read from our own debut novels in stories. As the festival’s website puts it, “Books by two Baltimore writers have recently been published that are described as "a novel in stories": Eric D. Goodman's Tracks and Susi Wyss's The Civilized World. Join Eric and Susi for a reading and discussion about the form, which seems to be back in vogue.”
http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com/schedule/event-detail/21/Novels-in%20Stories


Chime in at the event’s Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109402892495986


These events, and the Baltimore Book Fest as a whole, have gotten lots of ink in The Baltimore Sun, City Paper, and in the media. Here are a couple of recent shout outs.


CBS Baltimore:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/09/19/connecting-readers-and-authors-16th-annual-baltimore-book-festival/


CityLit Project:
http://www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=98


Note that Tracks, my novel in stories, will be on sale throughout the weekend at Cyclops Books, next to the CityLit Stage. Catch me at one of my events and I’ll be happy to sign your copy. And look—my very own Baltimore Book Fest author’s page!
http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com/participants/author/178/Eric%20D.-Goodman


Learn more about the Baltimore Book Festival and all it has to offer at the festival’s official website at www.baltimorebookfestival.com.

Or, just stop by!