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First ‘litfest’ lights up Lansing bookstores, libraries this weekend

City Pulse Photo Nicole Lintemuth, owner of Bettie’s Pages bookstore in Lowell

By BILL CASTANIER

The pandemic may not have been good for much, as the New Yorker magazine recently noted, but it was for bookstores — as this weekend’s first-ever Lansing Lit Festival demonstrates by the number of relatively new stores that are hosting it.

The festival will feature more than a dozen authors, poets and comic book artists at nine independent bookstores, area libraries and performance areas. The three-day event, which kicks off Friday (Sept. 20), includes 22 individual readings, workshops and performances.

Bookstores and other venues are Hooked; Schuler Books; Deadtime Stories, Curious Book Shop; Robin Books; A Novel Concept; Everybody Reads; Wayfaring Booksellers; Socialight Society; Williamston Theatre; Lansing Community College Dart Auditorium; East Lansing and Delta Township libraries; and Reach Studio Art Center.

Events are free, thanks in part to a $10,000 grant from the Ingham County Hotel/Motel Tax Funds for Arts and Tourism.

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