Boston Book Festival, Oct 24th: Now for something completely different

Boston is hosting it's first book festival free to the public.  Yay!  Festival participants include Ken Burns, Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Haigh, John Hodgeman, Kathleen Kent, Reif Larsen, Dennis Lehane, Kim McLarin, Tom Perrotta, Richard Russo, and many more.

More yay: they're foolishly letting me take part.

And Now for Something Completely Different:

What do a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus in suburban Virginia, a narcoleptic South Boston private investigator, and Kafka's Gregor...