… because the Center for Fiction, located there, is devoting an entire month to celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. This is part of an initiative called The Big Read, which is aimed at encouraging literary reading, especially children and teens. Not only are they celebrating a fantastic book by a great author, but there will be events throughout the month with an amazing variety of authors, including Kelly Link, Samuel Delany, Ellen Kushner, Margaret Atwood, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Justine Larbalestier… and you can hear them mostly for free. I had never heard of the Center for Fiction before, but thanks to Rose Fox at Genreville, I have now, and I’m really glad she pointed it out… just sad that I don’t live close enough to attend any of these events.