Random House Acts
There’s someone for (almost) everyone at the city’s newest big- thinkers fest By Ryan Bigge
This spring’s inaugural Open House Festival—spearheaded by Random House and modelled after the New Yorker’s autumn shindig—trots out 30-odd wiseacres, historians and novelists. A bland slogan (“a celebration of fact and fiction”) belies a solidly stacked shelf of intellectuals. Below, five of the hottest eggheads on offer.
Photograph by Jess Lander
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