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Kim N. Le
Thursday
, October 26
7:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: Improv Edgar Allan Poe
Room & Board
Wheel of Austen • Litquake • Boston Literary District
Lit Crawl: The Complete Works of James Joyce in 44 Minutes
Barbershop Lounge
The Here Comes Everybody Players • Litquake • Boston Literary District
8:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: GrubStreet and Brookline Booksmith Present Literary Balderdash
Brooks Brothers
Christopher Castellani • Marianne Leone • Stephen McCauley • Tom Perrotta • Val Wang • GrubStreet • Litquake • Brookline Booksmith • Boston Literary District
Lit Crawl: Literary Mad Libs!
MiniLuxe
Ron MacLean • Cheryl Pappas • Jenn Scheck-Kahn • Litquake • Boston Literary District
Friday
, October 27
7:30pm EDT
The Book Revue: An Author Variety Show
Old South Church Sanctuary
Meredith Goldstein • Chris Van Dusen • Krysten Hill • Marianne Leone • Hugh Macdonald • Leland Melvin • Eileen Myles • Boston Globe
Saturday
, October 28
10:45am EDT
BBF Unbound: The Joys and Realities of Small Press Publishing
Boston Common Hotel Carver
Catherine Parnell • Olivia Kate Cerrone • Jennifer Crystal • Courtney McDermott • Enzo Silon Surin
BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer
BPL Exchange
Louise Miller
11:00am EDT
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
Berklee Stage
Marlon Carey • Regie Gibson
The Safe House
French Cultural Center
Côme de la Bouillerie • Christophe Boltanski • French Cultural Center • French Embassy in the U.S.
The Beatles
Church of the Covenant
Shira Springer • Adam Gopnik • Alan Light • Rob Sheffield • Touré
YA: Truth and Consequences
Emmanuel Sanctuary
Lauren Rizzuto • Kristin Cashore • Malinda Lo • E. Lockhart • Simmons College
11:30am EDT
Readings: Coming of Age
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
Whitney Scharer • Kelly J. Ford • Gabe Habash • Simeon Marsalis
Memoir Keynote
Emmanuel Parish Hall
David Leonard • Eileen Myles
12:00pm EDT
BBF Unbound: Literary Never Have I Ever
Boston Common Hotel Hancock
Stephanie Gayle • Ann Collette • Mackenzi Lee • Timothy Mudie • B. A. Shapiro
Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land
Old South Church Sanctuary
Simón Rios • Hala Alyan • Lisa Ko • Jonny Sun
Boston By Foot Tour
BPL Civic Table
12:30pm EDT
Memoir and True Crime: The Prison of the Self
Emmanuel Sanctuary
Ethan Gilsdorf • Danielle Allen • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Sarah Perry
1:00pm EDT
Politics: Where We Find Ourselves
Trinity Sanctuary
Tom Ashbrook • Maureen Dowd • Jared Yates Sexton
1:30pm EDT
Reading Like a Writer: Perspective
Boston Common Hotel Hancock
Dawn Tripp • Rachel Kadish • Brendan Mathews • Paul Yoon
This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home
Trinity Forum
Margot Kahn • Sonya Chung • Jennifer De Leon • Kelly McMasters
1:45pm EDT
Memoir: Arrivals and Departures
Old South Church Sanctuary
Meghna Chakrabarti • Adam Gopnik • Kristen Radtke
2:00pm EDT
Fiction: War and the Home Front
BPL Commonwealth Salon
Catherine Parnell • Laura Harrington • Stephen P. Kiernan • Jessica Shattuck
Reading Like a Writer: Debuts
Boston Common Hotel Carver
Henriette Lazaridis • Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg • Annie Hartnett • Weike Wang
2:15pm EDT
Fiction Keynote
Church of the Covenant
Sari Edelstein • Claire Messud • Jacqueline Woodson
2:30pm EDT
Memoir: Strange Journeys
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Maria Garcia • Holly FitzGerald • Andrew Forsthoefel • Leland Melvin • Ayelet Waldman
Readings: Memoir
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
Christine Mastrangelo • Mindy Fried • Jessica Berger Gross • Tova Mirvis
3:00pm EDT
Voices of America: The Immigrant Experience Through a Writer’s Eyes
Trinity Forum
Simon Montlake • Ha Jin • Marjan Kamali • Grace Talusan • Christian Science Monitor
3:15pm EDT
Hush/Shut Up/Please Be Quiet
BPL Exchange
Margot Livesey
3:30pm EDT
BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege
Boston Common Hotel Carver
Kaitlin Solimine • Laura van den Berg • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Shuchi Saraswat • Hasanthika Sirisena
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Boston Book Festival 2017
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