The Importance of Being a Reader
Friday 4/25
The Newburyport Literary Festival celebrates its 20th year in 2025. To get the celebration started, we are honoring three of our own.
Dawn Tripp brings the former first lady to life in her novel Jackie. Fueled by research, Tripp writes from a first-person perspective about Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ many lives, public and private. The Washington Post review called it “an intimate episodic narrative.” Tripp will be joined in conversation by historian Kate Clifford Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter and an upcoming biography of Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
Come to the Firehouse, be there and in your seat by six o’clock on April 25th, 2025!
Followed by Supper at the Grog.
Saturday 4/26
From Breakfast with the Poets at the Congregational Church to The Old South Church, from City Hall to Jabberwocky and the UU Church in between, readings, conversations, and panels will be happening…
All day. All over town.
And it’s all free!
Firehouse Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. We’ll celebrate TWENTY YEARS OF THE NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL!
