This is an amazing event and for the fourth year they are keeping the cost of the pass to the festival at $500 because of donations by the "Angels" (big donors) of Rancho Mirage Library. This may seem expensive but I believe in the beginning years the cost was around $800 or possibly more. Passes sell out almost the moment they become available. And now they are making videos of all the sessions available to watch...wow! I have some "must sees" already like Zadie Smith and Susan Orlean who did The Library Book. What I really like about this festival is there is something for everyone and not just "serious" literature that would be studied in (heaven forbid!) English courses.
Take a look at the 2020 line up of authors and speakers and the videos you can watch of their presentations:
http://www.rmwritersfest.org/videos/?fbclid=IwAR2vkRRYilAmQLepxttBqtKbFYisiM44YIqGRyS1S9RUL6qVcA4YS00hBlA
The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is a world-class gathering of the finest writers who contribute to the intellectual vitality of our time. The City of Rancho Mirage, California, welcomes 40 authors and 1,000 readers from around the globe to the Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory each January. Jamie Kabler, who wanted to bring a premier intellectual event to the Coachella Valley, founded the Festival in 2014 which has been described as “Coachella for the Brain.”
Our mission is to bring our readers a rich and diverse program with topics ranging from politics, history, humor, and health to genre and literary fiction. Our writers are all experts in their field, distinguished historians, respected journalists and gifted story-tellers. Many are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize as well as New York Times bestsellers.
