Today I got to hear Khaled Hosseini, Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Helprin speak at the National Book Festival. There were too many great authors for me to catch them all — I missed another one of my favorites, Margaret Atwood, who spoke yesterday.

Photo: It was hard to see the authors — that’s Mark Helprin way over on the stage — but great that so many people came out that the authors were hard to see.