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Boston Book Festival 2017

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Kim Le

6:00pm EDT

Lit Crawl: City of Notions Urban Arts Media Art Gallery @ Emerson CollegeEd Barrett • Nick Flynn • Danielle Legros Georges • Regie Gibson • Fred Marchant • Anna Ross • Erick Verran • Litquake • Downtown Boston BID • The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture • Boston Literary District

7:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: Improv Edgar Allan Poe Room & BoardWheel of Austen • Litquake • Boston Literary District

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 Lit Crawl: Regie Gibson Live! Barbershop LoungeRegie Gibson • Litquake • 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

Join the Search for Waldo! BPL Guastavino HallCandlewick Press

10:45am EDT

Kids' Keynote Old South Church SanctuaryLemony Snicket

11:00am EDT

Where We Find Ourselves: Record Your Story BPL Civic TableThe Drum Literary Magazine

11:15am EDT

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Trinity SanctuaryMartha Minow • Stephen Greenblatt • Plymouth Rock

11:30am EDT

Readings: Coming of Age BPL Newsfeed CafeWhitney Scharer • Kelly J. Ford • Gabe Habash • Simeon Marsalis

11:45am EDT

One Land, Two Peoples: The Kingdom of Olives and Ash Old South Guild RoomLibby Lenkinski • Geraldine Brooks • Ayelet Waldman • Jacqueline Woodson

12:00pm EDT

Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land Old South Church SanctuarySimón Rios • Hala Alyan • Lisa Ko • Jonny Sun

1:00pm EDT

Politics: Where We Find Ourselves Trinity SanctuaryTom Ashbrook • Maureen Dowd • Jared Yates Sexton

2:00pm EDT

Fiction: War and the Home Front BPL Commonwealth SalonCatherine Parnell • Laura Harrington • Stephen P. Kiernan • Jessica Shattuck

2:15pm EDT

Fiction Keynote Church of the CovenantSari Edelstein • Claire Messud • Jacqueline Woodson Natural and Unnatural History Old South Mary Norton HallVicki Croke • Ben Mezrich • Kathryn Miles

2:45pm EDT

Racism in America: It's a Crime Trinity SanctuaryKim McLarin • Carol Anderson • Chris Hayes • James Forman Jr.

3:00pm EDT

Voices of America: The Immigrant Experience Through a Writer’s Eyes Trinity ForumSimon Montlake • Ha Jin • Marjan Kamali • Grace Talusan • Christian Science Monitor

3:30pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege Boston Common Hotel CarverKaitlin Solimine • Laura van den Berg • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Shuchi Saraswat • Hasanthika Sirisena

4:15pm EDT

Freeman's: The Future of New Writing Old South Guild RoomJohn Freeman • Garnette Cadogan • Tania James • Édouard Louis

5:30pm EDT

Poems and Pints XHALERebecca Morgan Frank • Krysten Hill • Natalie Shapero