The Twin Cities Book Festival has announced some of the authors who will be reading at this year’s event, and it’s a list full of big names. Among the attendees will be

• Nicholson Baker (Vox, The Mezzanine)
• Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, They Whisper)
• Lorrie Moore (Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Birds of America)
• Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper’s Wife, A Natural History of the Senses)
• Ruth Reichl (Not Becoming My Mother, Comfort Me with Apples)
• David Allen Sibley (The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour)
• Adam Zagajewski (Without End, A Defense of Ardor)
• Christian Bok (Pataphysics, Crystallography)

The TCBF will be Saturday, October 10, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, at the Minneapolis Technical College. It’s free and open to the public. Don’t miss it. Details are here.–David E