State Street, city launch book event

Boston Business Journal - by Mary Moore

State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT) is teaming with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and other city officials to sponsor the inaugural Boston Book Festival.

Free and open to the public, the event will feature authors representing many genres. It is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24, in Boston’s Copley Square.

Venues will include the Boston Public Library, Old South Church, Trinity Church and Copley Square. Authors will be giving presentations and will participate in issue-driven panels. The speaker line-up will include fiction and nonfiction writers, scholars, critics and commentators. There will be a focus on technology as it relates to reading. Programs for children, teens and families, writing workshops and publishing seminars are among the other events.