West Hartford – Mandell JCC Book Festival Event with Prof. Avinoam Patt, editor of The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction, hosting a conversation with past Wallant Award winners Eileen Pollack and Joshua Henkin and David Bezmozgis, who will be presented with this year’s Wallant Award, 7 p.m.; JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave., (860) 231-6369.