Northern Arizona Book Festival

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Northern Arizona Book Festival Weekend is upon us and the Mountain Spelling Bee is coming up!

Flagstaff will be alive with literature and literacy events over the next eight days. The <a title="Northern Arizona Book Festival" href="http://www.nazbookfest.com/about.htm" target="_blank">Northern Arizona Book Festival</a> was founded in 1998 by the <a title="Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County" href="http://www.lvccreads.org/index.htm" target="_blank">Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County</a> as a direct and tangible link between basic literacy efforts and ambitious literary endeavors. With the hyperbole to which book-lovers often seem inspired, the downtown Flagstaff book festival has been called the <a title="About the Northern Arizona Book Festival" href="http://www.nazbookfest.com/about.htm" target="_blank">“premier cultural event of the Northland”</a> as well as the <a title="About the Northern Arizona Book Festival" href="http://www.nazbookfest.com/about.htm" target="_blank">“single greatest reason to live in Flagstaff!”</a>  I think there are lots of other reasons to live in Flagstaff as well. Nonetheless, the next week’s events certainly are some of the reasons. Although the official festival begins Friday, our local bookstore, <a title="Bookmans events" href="http://www.bookmans.com/Flagstaff.211.0.html" target="_blank">Bookmans</a>, will host a reading this evening by author Evan Handler. The actor and critically-acclaimed writer is best known as Harry Goldenblatt from HBO’s Sex and the City and  is the author of the memoir <a title="Review of the book" href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,291058,00.html" target="_blank">Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors</a>. The event runs from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Wednesday. There are several other similar events surrounding the festival this week and next.Throughout the weekend, beginning Friday, downtown Flagstaff will be filled with authors and their audiences for the main event. Visit the Northern Arizona Book Festival calendar page for a <a title="Flagstaff book festival events" href="http://www.nazbookfest.com/calendar.htm" target="_blank">full schedule of events</a>. Enjoy workshops as well as book discussions, and head back to Bookmans Sunday morning for a gathering of authors making themselves available for book-signings. Proceeds from the festival benefit Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County.Thursday, May 1, Literacy Volunteers will host its annual <a href="http://calendar.azdailysun.com/eventview.cfm?ID=32394,04/23/2008">Mountain Spelling Bee</a>  fund-raising event. RE/MAX Peak Properties has adopted <a href="http://www.lvccreads.org/index.htm">Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County</a> as its community-giving target. Our agents contribute funds and time as tutors to the literacy effort. <a title="Flagstaff real estate agents" href="http://bestflagstaffhomes.com/" target="_blank">Team Heitland at RE/MAX Peak Properties</a> will enter a team in the spelling bee – last year we won the “Spirit Award” after coming close to taking first prize in the final round. This year, we have a spelling ringer and hope to win. Come see us at the <a title="Radisson Woodlands Flagstaff" href="http://www.radisson.com/flagstaffaz" target="_blank">Radisson Woodlands</a> on May 1 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., join in the fun and benefit a good cause. 9 application/xml false Bookmans in Flagstaff Flagstaff book festival Flagstaff events Flagstaff real estate agents Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County Living in Flagstaff Mountain Spelling Bee Northern Arizona Book Festival Remax Things to do in Flagstaff Northern Arizona Book Festival See the full calendar, author and writer biographies, details on events and locations http://www.nazbookfest.com/index.htm Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County Here's more information on this literacy advocacy group http://www.lvccreads.org/index.htm Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aheitland 24.121.32.9 false true false false true 178975 false false true false false false true 178441 blog blogsite/BestFlagstaffHomes/web