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Boston Book Festival 2017

Kim N. Le

7:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: Improv Edgar Allan Poe Room & BoardWheel of Austen • Litquake • Boston Literary District Lit Crawl: The Complete Works of James Joyce in 44 Minutes Barbershop LoungeThe Here Comes Everybody Players • 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: Literary Mad Libs! MiniLuxeRon MacLean • Cheryl Pappas • Jenn Scheck-Kahn • 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

10:45am EDT

BBF Unbound: The Joys and Realities of Small Press Publishing Boston Common Hotel CarverCatherine Parnell • Olivia Kate Cerrone • Jennifer Crystal • Courtney McDermott • Enzo Silon Surin BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer BPL ExchangeLouise Miller

11:00am EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy Berklee StageMarlon Carey • Regie Gibson The Safe House French Cultural CenterCôme de la Bouillerie • Christophe Boltanski • French Cultural Center • French Embassy in the U.S. The Beatles Church of the CovenantShira Springer • Adam Gopnik • Alan Light • Rob Sheffield • Touré YA: Truth and Consequences Emmanuel SanctuaryLauren Rizzuto • Kristin Cashore • Malinda Lo • E. Lockhart • Simmons College

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 Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land Old South Church SanctuarySimón 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 SanctuaryEthan Gilsdorf • Danielle Allen • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Sarah Perry

1:00pm EDT

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

1:30pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

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