The Authors Guild Foundation’s WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival returns to the Berkshires September 27 – 29 to explore the theme The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. The 2024 Festival features a special lineup of 8 conversations between Jennifer Egan & Joseph O’Neill; Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt; Tony Kushner & Rachel Maddow; Ruth Simmons & Sherrilyn Ifill; Cathy Park Hong & Sayed Kashua; Jamaica Kincaid & Sandra Guzmán; Ruth Reichl & Monique Truong; and Marie Arana & Luis Alberto Urrea.