In the News
[print_this]
July 31
Two terrific takes on WordFest up at Berkshire Fine Arts: First Annual Event in Lenox by Astrid Hiemer and Conjuring the Spirit of Edith Wharton by Charles Giuliano. Thank you, Astrid and Charles!
Postscript on WordFest by Roberta Silman on The Arts Fuse, rightly emphasizing the extraordinary “generosity of spirit” that pervaded the event.
WordFest picked up by the London Free Press in an interesting travel piece on the Berkshires: “Soon to be added to the artistic package that is the Berkshires is a focus on writing as The Mount, onetime home of author Edith Wharton in Lenox, organizes its first of what is hoped to be an annual literary festival. Berkshire Wordfest was held July 23-25 and is the area’s only summertime literary event.”
July 29
Beautiful reflections by Kate Abbott, editor of Berkshires Week: “Walking the house and grounds this weekend at Berkshire WordFest, I felt myself enlarged. The global community of writers had stretched itself here and let me touch it like a live wire. Every talk gave me ideas to play with.” (Check out both her column, Roundtable, and related story, A Generous Fertility: Berkshire WordFest.)
July 28
Check out our “party pics” at Rural Intelligence, courtesy of Dan Shaw.
July 25
First Berkshire WordFest a success: “Top ten list of moments” from Berkshire Living’s Lesley Ann Beck.
Ruth Reichl talks food at Berkshire WordFest: Get the dish from WGBH’s Daily Dish writer, Cathy Huyghe.
July 24
Live at The Mount: Live blogging from Berkshire Living’s Lesley Ann Beck.
July 22
Center spread in Berkshires Week, the Eagle’s weekly summer arts & entertainment section. Fascinating observations on Wharton from Katie Roiphe, Frank Delaney, and Louisa Gilder, each interviewed for the story.
July 21
Shout-out by Vivan Dorsel, publisher/editor of upstreet literary magazine, a sponsor of Berkshire WordFest 2010. Thank you, Vivian!
July 20
Fabulous preview by Berkshire Living’s literary maven, Lesley Ann Beck, who will be liveblogging the festival all weekend. (Thank you, Lesley!) She writes: “It’s time to add a top-notch literary festival to the other excellent cultural offering in the Berkshires, and holding it at the home of Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction, makes perfect sense.” Our sentiments exactly.
Interview with Robinhood Radio’s Marshall Miles. Listen here or tune into WHDD 91.1 FM in and around Sharon, CT for a rebroadcast.
July 19
Editor Rebecca Rego Barry of Fine Books & Collections writes, “The Mount seems to have a new lease on life and will make a perfect home for WordFest.” Indeed!
July 18
Preview piece in the Albany Times Union.
Feature in the Schenectady Gazette (full text available to subscribers only). Begins: “Edith Wharton, nearly three-quarters of a century after her death, has filled in a gap in the Berkshires…”
July 16
Lovely post by Roberta Silman on The Arts Fuse about WordFest and The Mount. She writes: “With the establishment of Wordfest, a celebration of writing in America with talks, interviews, panels and book signings, The Mount seems to be coming into its own in ways that make it more alive than ever before.” We agree!
July 14
Cover story by Kelly Bevan in the Advocate, quoting Elizabeth Brundage and Jim Shepard, who has this to say about the value of literary festivals: “Having festivals like this anywhere in the country is a good idea. As the general culture gets less focused on literature and literary matters in general, I think it’s always nice to provide [this] kind of space.”
July 9
Hear us on WAMC’s The Roundtable, live from Tanglewood!
July 7
Editor’s column in the Advocate spotlights WordFest.
Our Letter to the Editor in the Berkshire Eagle shines a light on county writers & WordFest.
July 1
In Berkshire Living’s SCENE AROUND section: “Words from the Wise” by words-wise editor Lesley Ann Beck. Check out the July issue for full coverage. On newsstands now!
A snippet on WordFest at The Literary Saloon, “opinionated commentary on literary matters” from the editors of Complete-Review.com.
June 23
Berkshire WordFest makes Boston Magazine’s Cultural To-Do List for July 2010. One of “seven events worth your time.”
June 20
Celebrating Edith Wharton at the Globe: WordFest and The Mount featured in books column by Jan Gardner!
June 14
Berkshire Living’s Lesley Ann Beck blogs about The Mount’s “summer of the written word.”
June 13
WordFest highlighted in the Globe’s Weekend-by-Weekend Guide to a Fun-filled Summer!
June 10
Globe writer Joel Brown blogs about WordFest at HubArts.com, his art & culture blog.
June 8
AP Travel (Beth Harpaz) tweets about WordFest.
June 3
Berkshire WordFest featured in Rural Intelligence!
June 2
The Women’s Times names Berkshire WordFest a Top 10 Pick for Summer 2010. Pick up your June issue today! (The magazine isn’t online, but check out TWT on Facebook.)
[/print_this]
