HoCoPoLitSo and the Wilde Lake Community Association present a literary celebration for Columbia's 50th birthday. Former Columbia residents and best-selling novelists Carrie Brown and John Gregory Brown will read from their work at a celebration of literature's history in this planned city. HoCoPoLitSo will also honor two of Columbia's own forces of nature, Padraic and Ellen Kennedy, for their work creating a literary life in Howard County.
About The Stargazers Daughter, Caroline Leavitt of the Boston Globe described Carrie Brown's writing as "luminous as the skies her characters contemplate." The New York Times said John Gregory Brown's A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a "deeply humane look at the vulnerability of black lives, the New South and the restorative potential of literature in the aftermath of catastrophe.