If you haven鈥檛 heard of the 疯客直播 Fe International Literary Festival, now you know 鈥 and you鈥檙e welcome. If you have heard of it, or better yet, have attended in the past, then add all the exclamation marks you want to the following sentence: The fourth 疯客直播 Fe International Literary Festival runs May 16-18, and tickets go on sale Friday, January 31.

As in previous events, this year鈥檚 festival-goers can expect thought-provoking conversations between a range of authors on big and small stages, book signings, walk-and-talk events around town, and meditation sessions. The festival also offers free community events at several venues around 疯客直播 Fe, which will be confirmed later this spring.

And this year鈥檚 event includes award-winning, top-tier writers whom many of us have been reading for years, like Amy Tan, best known for The Joy Luck Club (1989) and The Kitchen God鈥檚 Wife (1991), plus myriad novels and short story collections; Percival Everett, whose latest novel James (2024) won the National Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer (2016) that won Nguyen a Pulitzer Prize; and Miranda July, whose new novel All Fours (2024) has the internet abuzz.

Lit fest tickets go on sale Jan. 31

DJ and poet Raashan Ahmad cheers on young writers performing on a community stage at the 2023 festival.

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