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Sam Kumasaka
Consensus Building Institute
Thursday
, October 26
6:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: GrownUp StoryTime
Room & Board
Litquake • Boston Literary District
7:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: A Taste of Boston Food Writing
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
Louisa Kasdon • Crystal King • Louise Miller • Maria Speck • Dariel Suarez • Litquake • Pangyrus • Boston Literary District
Saturday
, October 28
10:00am EDT
Writer Idol
Boston Common Hotel Hancock
Christopher Castellani • Ann Collette • Amaryah Orenstein • Esmond Harmsworth
10:30am EDT
Readings: Short Stories
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
Marjan Kamali • Noy Holland • Edie Meidav • KL Pereira
11:00am EDT
The Beatles
Church of the Covenant
Shira Springer • Adam Gopnik • Alan Light • Rob Sheffield • Touré
The Biker, the Baker, and the Dumpling Maker
BPL Rabb Hall
Steve Holt • Karen Akunowicz • Joanne Chang • Stella Parks
11:15am EDT
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Trinity Sanctuary
Martha Minow • Stephen Greenblatt • Plymouth Rock
12:00pm EDT
Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land
Old South Church Sanctuary
Simón Rios • Hala Alyan • Lisa Ko • Jonny Sun
Good Leaders
Trinity Forum
Anthony Brooks • Nancy Koehn • Anthony Tjan
12:30pm EDT
Atlas Obscura
BPL Rabb Hall
Zeninjor Enwemeka • Ella Morton • Boston Public Library
Geopolitics
Church of the Covenant
Nicholas Burns • Graham Allison • Meghan L. O'Sullivan
1:00pm EDT
Politics: Where We Find Ourselves
Trinity Sanctuary
Tom Ashbrook • Maureen Dowd • Jared Yates Sexton
YA Keynote
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Cathryn Mercier • M. T. Anderson
1:45pm EDT
BBF Unbound: Ecological Writing
BPL Exchange
Katie Mather • Tamara Ellis Smith
Memoir: Arrivals and Departures
Old South Church Sanctuary
Meghna Chakrabarti • Adam Gopnik • Kristen Radtke
2:00pm EDT
Fiction: The Naughty Bits
Emmanuel Sanctuary
Eloisa James • Daniel Handler • Alissa Nutting • Tom Perrotta
Reading Like a Writer: Debuts
Boston Common Hotel Carver
Henriette Lazaridis • Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg • Annie Hartnett • Weike Wang
YA: Fantasy Worlds
BPL Teen Central
Lana Popović • Libba Bray • Julie C. Dao • Tochi Onyebuchi
2:15pm EDT
Fiction Keynote
Church of the Covenant
Sari Edelstein • Claire Messud • Jacqueline Woodson
Incest
French Cultural Center
Annabel Kim • Christine Angot • French Cultural Center • French Embassy in the U.S.
Natural and Unnatural History
Old South Mary Norton Hall
Vicki Croke • Ben Mezrich • Kathryn Miles
2:45pm EDT
Racism in America: It's a Crime
Trinity Sanctuary
Kim McLarin • Carol Anderson • Chris Hayes • James Forman Jr.
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
3:30pm EDT
BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege
Boston Common Hotel Carver
Kaitlin Solimine • Laura van den Berg • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich • Shuchi Saraswat • Hasanthika Sirisena
Welcome to Night Vale: It Devours!
Emmanuel Sanctuary
Virginia Prescott • Jeffrey Cranor • Joseph Fink
3:45pm EDT
Fiction: Missed Connections
BPL Rabb Hall
Dawn Tripp • Eshkol Nevo • Celeste Ng • Lily Tuck
4:00pm EDT
Martin Tamisier
Berklee Stage
Martin Tamisier
5:30pm EDT
Poems and Pints
XHALE
Rebecca Morgan Frank • Krysten Hill • Natalie Shapero
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Boston Book Festival 2017
America/New York
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28, 2017
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