Book lovers and authors came together Saturday to celebrate Kentucky literature at Joseph Bat Booksellers in Lexington.

One guest at the festival this year was Al Roker, who came to talk about the new cookbook he did with his daughter.

That and more and our arts and culture segment we call Tapestry.

Kentucky Book Festival, the largest longest running events, literary events in the Commonwealth.

This is the 43rd edition.

One of the most wonderful things about the visitors of this free events can come and meet their favorite author and check out the vast variety of books.

It's been all about talking ever again.

This event is one of my favorites.

I think you have such talent of domesticity, a voice in this state.

And so this is really an opportunity for all of us to get to see each other.

I love to see my author friends from inside here and then also to celebrate really wonderful storytelling.

I also am a transplant, so I moved here.

I'm from Michigan originally, but I was really, really pleasantly surprised with the literary community here.

There's such a rich history of, you know, oral history and I really tree and fiction.

And so I think that we just have a lot of really great voices that are coming out of the city.

I.

It's a meditative and a restorative time.

Kentucky offers something that I think the rest of the United States needs right now, which is an Appalachian perspective, something that's based in family, something that's in enriched by nature itself.

And so when.

I was thinking.

Of the list of who to invite, how do you choose?

When you've got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of the best writers.

And I think that often when we celebrate our history, especially in November and we do so through literature, I think that we speak to a part of a universal soul that isn't necessarily reached through media or any other format.

Our point of pride is that there is something for everyone.

We make it a point to have diverse books and we make it a point to highlight voices that matter.

I think the Kentucky literature community is welcoming.

This is a family and this is a family event.

So we bring you into literature in a way that is accessible and fun, in my opinion.

I think indeed, if you're a fan of books and Broadway, actor Darian Sanders will be at Joseph Beck Booksellers this Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern.

His new book, Don't Fear Your Roar, is about his journey from Kentucky to the Broadway stage playing Simba and The Lion King.

Very talented young man.