Seven Days Covers Bookstock

Bookstock, the Woodstock-based "festival of words," usually happens every July. This year — the fest's 12th — the organizers had already booked 40 authors when the pandemic hit, according to programming director Pam Ahlen. They made the tough decision to cancel the live event and replace it with a series of free livestreaming author talks, dubbed Virtual Bookstock 2020, in partnership with Woodstock's Norman Williams Public Library.

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Live audience Q & A will be part of each of Bookstock's virtual events, which continue on October 15 with Jason Lutes of Hartland, author of the graphic novel trilogy Berlin. The winner of Comic-Con International's Inkpot Award and the Vermont Book Award, Lutes teaches at White River Junction's Center for Cartoon Studies. (Read Pamela Polston's cover story on him here.) He'll offer a PowerPoint presentation on his ambitious historical trilogy, Ahlen said.