After 15 years of staging annual literary festivals — and just weeks before its 2024 event was to open — Bookstock announced on Monday that it is closing down. The Woodstock festival scheduled for June 21 to 23 is canceled. Cofounder and board chair Peter Rousmaniere told Seven Days that disparate visions for the festival prompted some participating organizations to pull out. He declined to name them. "It was a decision on their own, which I respect," he said. More than two dozen local... Read this story