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Letter to the editor

Festivals galore for voracious readers

November is a busy month in Florida, with book festivals taking place all around the state.

By Colette Bancroft, Times books editor
Published October 28, 2007

Sarasota Reading Festival
Saturday, www.sarasotareadingfestival.com

Kicking things off on Saturday is the Sarasota Reading Festival. Headlining the event are CNN pundit Lou Dobbs (Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit), actor Gene Wilder (My French Whore) and romance writer Barbara Taylor Bradford (The Heir). They join more than 70 authors for readings, panel discussions and children's events.

The free festival takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Five Points Park in downtown Sarasota.

Miami Book Fair International
Nov. 4-11, www.miamibookfair.com

The big daddy of Florida book fairs takes place Nov. 4 through 11, when the Miami Book Fair International fills the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College.

"Evening With . . ." author talks, a street fair and scads of vendors are just some of the many attractions.

Headliners this year include Rosie O'Donnell (Celebrity Detox), Richard Russo (Bridge of Sighs), Dave Barry (History of the Millennium So Far), Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) and Jeffrey Toobin (The Nine), along with a cast of thousands.

Vero Beach Book Festival
Nov. 15-17, vbbf.orbitsys.net

If that's not enough to feed your bibliophilia, the Vero Beach Book Festival brings several dozen authors to that East Coast city Nov. 15 through 17. Events include readings, a panel discussion on book reviewing and symposiums on biographies and landscaping.

Headliners in Vero Beach include Sena Jeter Naslund (Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette), Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch) and Rick Bragg (I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story).

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