

A conversation between comedians/TV hosts Chelsea Handler and Seth Meyers on Friday will kick off the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, which then offers two more days full of talks with nationally known, award-winning and local-favorite authors.

A conversation between comedians/TV hosts Chelsea Handler and Seth Meyers on Friday will kick off the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, which then offers two more days full of talks with nationally known, award-winning and local-favorite authors.

That opening event will take place at Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center in Oak Bluffs, but the festival will continue Saturday and Sunday in Chilmark. The theme is “bridging gaps,” with festival officials saying, “These writers give us tools that provide greater thoughtfulness in our public engagement.”

The 34 authors attending represent a wide range of topics. Among them: Novelist John Grisham, author of 30 bestsellers, with his new “The Reckoning”; Jim Acosta, CNN's chief White House correspondent currently covering the Trump administration with his first book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America”; David Blight, whose “Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom” won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for history; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo and his new “Chances Are…”; food writers Chef Kwame Onwuachi (“Notes from a Young Black Chef”) and Ruth Reicht, author of eight books (“Save Me the Plums”); Valerie Jarrett, seven-year senior advisor to President Barack Obama for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, with “Finding My Voice”; and retired Admiral William McRaven, with his “Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations.”

On Saturday, there will be seven panel discussions with authors followed by book-signings. The day starts at 9 a.m., with “The Role of the Press: the Presidency and Society,” featuring Acosta; Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine and author of “Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times”; and Jeremy Hobson, national radio journalist and co-host of NPR’s “Here and Now.”

Panels touch on fiction, memoir, feminist expression, social justice and voices for change before finishing at 3 p.m. with “The Future of Life on Earth: Migration, Immigration and Climate Change.” Authors there will Valeria Luiselli (“Lost Children Archive”), Suketu Mehta (“This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto”), Tatiana Schlossberg (“Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have”), and David Wallace-Wells (“Uninhabitable Earth”).

Sunday’s programs will involve four tents running simultaneously for talks with the authors. The moderators also have impressive backgrounds, including bestselling author Amor Towles (“A Gentleman in Moscow”); Rita Braver, nine-time Emmy Award-winning national correspondent for “CBS News’ CBS Sunday Morning”; best-selling novelist Elizabeth Benedict (“Almost”); journalist Michele Norris, an NPR host and special correspondent; and several Vineyard luminaries.

Signings will also follow the Sunday talks. Tickets and information for all events: mvbookfestival.com.

Authors’ books will be available for sale at Bunch of Grapes Book Sales Tent.

 
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