Concord Festival of Authors: Breakfast with the Authors at the Colonial Inn - TICKETED EVENT
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The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the 2026 Breakfast with the Authors panel, which will take place at Concord's Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square. The event will be moderated by local author and physician, Dr. Suzanne Koven. CFA Breakfast tickets will be sold locally at the Barrow Bookstore as well as online on the CFA website starting in early October. This event includes a full buffet breakfast at Concord’s Colonial Inn. * Please note that the room is not handicap accessible. Please contact the Colonial inn for assistance. Christopher Castellani is the author of five books, most recently the novel Leading Men , for which he received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Leading Men was published by Viking Penguin, and is currently being adapted for film by Peter Spears (Oscar-winning producer of Nomadland) and Searchlight Pictures. The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story , a collection of essays on point of view in fiction, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press.. His first novel, A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin, 2003) won the Massachusetts Book Award; its follow-up, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin, 2005), was a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book; the final novel in the trilogy, All This Talk of Love (Algonquin, 2013), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. Christopher is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University, on the f
