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Saturday
, October 28
Berklee Stage
11:00am •
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
12:00pm •
Nativa
1:00pm •
Maro
2:00pm •
Tyson Jackson
3:00pm •
Mayah Dyson
4:00pm •
Martin Tamisier
Boston Common Hotel Carver
10:45am •
BBF Unbound: The Joys and Realities of Small Press Publishing
12:30pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Poetry
2:00pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Debuts
3:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege
Boston Common Hotel Hancock
10:00am •
Writer Idol
12:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Literary Never Have I Ever
1:30pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Perspective
3:15pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Setting
BPL Children's Library
10:00am •
Story Time with Susanna Chapman
11:00am •
Story Time with Gaia Cornwall
12:00pm •
Story Time with Matt de la Peña
1:00pm •
Story Time with Aram Kim
2:00pm •
Story Time with Bryan Collier
3:00pm •
Story Time with Javaka Steptoe
4:00pm •
Story Time with Julia Denos and E.B. Goodale
BPL Civic Table
11:00am •
Where We Find Ourselves: Record Your Story
12:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
1:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
2:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
3:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
BPL Commonwealth Salon
12:30pm •
Our Digital Future
2:00pm •
Fiction: War and the Home Front
3:30pm •
#LookItUP: Knowledge Matters
BPL Exchange
10:45am •
BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer
12:15pm •
BBF Unbound: The How and Why of Feminist Romance
1:45pm •
BBF Unbound: Ecological Writing
3:15pm •
Hush/Shut Up/Please Be Quiet
BPL Guastavino Hall
10:00am •
Hubbub at the BBF
10:00am •
Join the Search for Waldo!
10:00am •
History of Halloween
10:30am •
Appearance by Nutbrown Hare
11:30am •
Appearance by Olivia
12:00pm •
Ammi-Joan Paquette book signing
12:00pm •
Blinkie Paper a Favorite Book Scene: Family Paper Electronics!
12:30pm •
Appearance by Maisy
1:00pm •
Jamie Harper book signing
1:30pm •
Appearance by Elephant and Piggie
2:00pm •
Scott Magoon book signing
2:30pm •
Identity Crowns and Shields
2:30pm •
Appearance by Waldo
3:00pm •
Peter H. Reynolds book signing
3:30pm •
Music with Ms. Wyndy
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
10:30am •
Readings: Short Stories
11:30am •
Readings: Coming of Age
12:30pm •
Readings: Past and Present
1:30pm •
Readings: Relationships
2:30pm •
Readings: Memoir
3:30pm •
Readings: Essays and Musings
BPL Orientation Room
12:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Defining Diversity
2:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Rhyme Time
BPL Rabb Hall
11:00am •
The Biker, the Baker, and the Dumpling Maker
12:30pm •
Atlas Obscura
2:00pm •
Bosch, Bruegel, and the Depiction of Extreme Conditions
3:45pm •
Fiction: Missed Connections
BPL Rey Room
10:30am •
Shadow Puppet Playground
12:00pm •
The Magic of Pop-Up Books
1:30pm •
Find Your Story, Draw Your Story
3:00pm •
Dinosaurs Alive
BPL Teen Central
11:00am •
Middle Grade: Solving Problems
12:30pm •
Middle Grade: Reimagination
2:00pm •
YA: Fantasy Worlds
3:30pm •
YA: It's Getting Real
Church of the Covenant
11:00am •
The Beatles
12:30pm •
Geopolitics
2:15pm •
Fiction Keynote
3:45pm •
Memoir: Ties that Bind
Copley Park Lawn
11:00am •
Passport to Imagination
2:00pm •
Kids Groove
Emmanuel Parish Hall
11:30am •
Memoir Keynote
1:00pm •
YA Keynote
2:30pm •
Memoir: Strange Journeys
4:00pm •
Muhammad Ali: Conscience of a Fighter
Emmanuel Sanctuary
11:00am •
YA: Truth and Consequences
12:30pm •
Memoir and True Crime: The Prison of the Self
2:00pm •
Fiction: The Naughty Bits
3:30pm •
Welcome to Night Vale: It Devours!
French Cultural Center
11:00am •
The Safe House
12:45pm •
The End of Eddy
2:15pm •
Incest
4:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Writing in Paris
Old South Church Sanctuary
10:45am •
Kids' Keynote
12:00pm •
Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land
1:45pm •
Memoir: Arrivals and Departures
3:15pm •
Keep Us in Suspense
4:45pm •
The State of Affairs
Old South Guild Room
11:45am •
One Land, Two Peoples: The Kingdom of Olives and Ash
1:15pm •
Gumshoes to Cyber Sleuths
2:45pm •
The Secret Chord
4:15pm •
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing
Old South Mary Norton Hall
11:00am •
Discover the Magic of Children's Book Making
12:30pm •
Vegas: Architecture, Urbanism and the American Dream
2:15pm •
Natural and Unnatural History
3:45pm •
One City One Story
Trinity Forum
12:00pm •
Good Leaders
1:30pm •
This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home
3:00pm •
Voices of America: The Immigrant Experience Through a Writer’s Eyes
Trinity Sanctuary
11:15am •
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
1:00pm •
Politics: Where We Find Ourselves
2:45pm •
Racism in America: It's a Crime
XHALE
5:30pm •
Poems and Pints
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