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Boston Book Festival 2017

Kimberly Jaso

Memoir, personal essay, literary fiction

8:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: GrubStreet and Brookline Booksmith Present Literary Balderdash Brooks BrothersChristopher Castellani • Marianne Leone • Stephen McCauley • Tom Perrotta • Val Wang • GrubStreet • Litquake • Brookline Booksmith • Boston Literary District

7:30pm EDT

The Book Revue: An Author Variety Show Old South Church SanctuaryMeredith Goldstein • Chris Van Dusen • Krysten Hill • Marianne Leone • Hugh Macdonald • Leland Melvin • Eileen Myles • Boston Globe

10:00am EDT

Writer Idol Boston Common Hotel HancockChristopher Castellani • Ann Collette • Amaryah Orenstein • Esmond Harmsworth

10:30am EDT

Readings: Short Stories BPL Newsfeed CafeMarjan Kamali • Noy Holland • Edie Meidav • KL Pereira

10:45am EDT

BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer BPL ExchangeLouise Miller

11:30am EDT

Readings: Coming of Age BPL Newsfeed CafeWhitney Scharer • Kelly J. Ford • Gabe Habash • Simeon Marsalis Memoir Keynote Emmanuel Parish HallDavid Leonard • Eileen Myles

12:00pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Literary Never Have I Ever Boston Common Hotel HancockStephanie Gayle • Ann Collette • Mackenzi Lee • Timothy Mudie • B. A. Shapiro

12:30pm EDT

Memoir and True Crime: The Prison of the Self Emmanuel SanctuaryEthan Gilsdorf • Danielle Allen • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Sarah Perry Reading Like a Writer: Poetry Boston Common Hotel CarverAlicia Anstead • Stephanie Burt • Myronn Hardy • Erika L. Sánchez

1:30pm EDT

Readings: Relationships BPL Newsfeed CafeRobin Kall • Sylvia Brownrigg • Joshua Max Feldman • Sarah Healy Reading Like a Writer: Perspective Boston Common Hotel HancockDawn Tripp • Rachel Kadish • Brendan Mathews • Paul Yoon This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home Trinity ForumMargot Kahn • Sonya Chung • Jennifer De Leon • Kelly McMasters

1:45pm EDT

Memoir: Arrivals and Departures Old South Church SanctuaryMeghna Chakrabarti • Adam Gopnik • Kristen Radtke

2:00pm EDT

Fiction: The Naughty Bits Emmanuel SanctuaryEloisa James • Daniel Handler • Alissa Nutting • Tom Perrotta Reading Like a Writer: Debuts Boston Common Hotel CarverHenriette Lazaridis • Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg • Annie Hartnett • Weike Wang

2:15pm EDT

Fiction Keynote Church of the CovenantSari Edelstein • Claire Messud • Jacqueline Woodson

2:30pm EDT

Memoir: Strange Journeys Emmanuel Parish HallMaria Garcia • Holly FitzGerald • Andrew Forsthoefel • Leland Melvin • Ayelet Waldman Readings: Memoir BPL Newsfeed CafeChristine Mastrangelo • Mindy Fried • Jessica Berger Gross • Tova Mirvis

3:15pm EDT

Keep Us in Suspense Old South Church SanctuaryAmy MacKinnon • Malin Persson Giolito • Dennis Lehane • Peter Swanson Reading Like a Writer: Setting Boston Common Hotel HancockHenriette Lazaridis • Brunonia Barry • Jessie Chaffee • Erica Ferencik Hush/Shut Up/Please Be Quiet BPL ExchangeMargot Livesey

3:30pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege Boston Common Hotel CarverKaitlin Solimine • Laura van den Berg • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Shuchi Saraswat • Hasanthika Sirisena Readings: Essays and Musings BPL Newsfeed CafeAnjali Mitter Duva • Will Dowd • Minna Zallman Proctor • Leslie Stein YA: It's Getting Real BPL Teen CentralLaura Koenig • Dick Lehr • Daniel José Older • Nic Stone • Erika L. Sánchez

3:45pm EDT

Fiction: Missed Connections BPL Rabb HallDawn Tripp • Eshkol Nevo • Celeste Ng • Lily Tuck Memoir: Ties that Bind Church of the CovenantLeslie Gilbert-Lurie • Amy Dickinson • Melissa Febos • Dani Shapiro

4:45pm EDT

The State of Affairs Old South Church SanctuaryRobin Young • Esther Perel