Area authors to be ‘checked out’ at library event

A handful of local authors will make themselves available to be “checked out” at the library this Saturday in celebration of Alaska Book Week.

The “Local Authors Library” will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m. People can spend 20 minutes with each author to ask questions and learn more about Alaska writing, said Jessie Morgan, the library’s education and cultural coordinator.

Authors Heather Lende (“If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name”), Nick Jans (“A…