Harrisburg Book Festival returns in October

The Spark

The 12th Annual Harrisburg Book Festival will take place at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore from Oct 9-13. The book fest promotes reading and community. Alex Brubaker is the Program Director of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore and Executive Director of the Harrisburg Book Festival.

Midtown Scholar is an independent bookstore, something Brubaker is proud to be a part of.

“We’re in charge of our own community events. We get to decide what gets put on those shelves, and we have more intimate interaction with our customers. We get to know our customers a little bit better than maybe a large box, big box store might, or an online retailer might. So, we get to host our author events, we get to curate the books, and we get to have that sense of curation that perhaps a corporate bookstore might not, “said Brubaker.

The festival will offer an outdoor tent sale offering discounts on over 30,000 books, 25 high profile authors, and a Children’s Day. Abbott Kahler, Author of Eden Undone: An Afternoon with Abbot Kahler, will be among the visiting authors.

“One of the great pleasures about being an author is that after years of isolation and research in the archives and connecting with your long dead characters, in my case, you get to go out and talk to live people who are interested in the story, who want to ask you questions. You know, especially a really strange story like this. I've been hearing from a lot of people who've been to the Galapagos Islands and are really interested more in this dark slice of history from that unique place, “said Kahler.

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