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Boston Book Festival 2017

Sam Kumasaka

Consensus Building Institute

6:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: GrownUp StoryTime Room & BoardLitquake • Boston Literary District

7:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: A Taste of Boston Food Writing BPL Newsfeed CafeLouisa Kasdon • Crystal King • Louise Miller • Maria Speck • Dariel Suarez • Litquake • Pangyrus • Boston Literary District

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

11:00am EDT

The Beatles Church of the CovenantShira Springer • Adam Gopnik • Alan Light • Rob Sheffield • Touré The Biker, the Baker, and the Dumpling Maker BPL Rabb HallSteve Holt • Karen Akunowicz • Joanne Chang • Stella Parks

11:15am EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land Old South Church SanctuarySimón Rios • Hala Alyan • Lisa Ko • Jonny Sun Good Leaders Trinity ForumAnthony Brooks • Nancy Koehn • Anthony Tjan

12:30pm EDT

Atlas Obscura BPL Rabb HallZeninjor Enwemeka • Ella Morton • Boston Public Library Geopolitics Church of the CovenantNicholas Burns • Graham Allison • Meghan L. O'Sullivan

1:00pm EDT

Politics: Where We Find Ourselves Trinity SanctuaryTom Ashbrook • Maureen Dowd • Jared Yates Sexton YA Keynote Emmanuel Parish HallCathryn Mercier • M. T. Anderson

1:45pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Ecological Writing BPL ExchangeKatie Mather • Tamara Ellis Smith 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 YA: Fantasy Worlds BPL Teen CentralLana Popović • Libba Bray • Julie C. Dao • Tochi Onyebuchi

2:15pm EDT

Fiction Keynote Church of the CovenantSari Edelstein • Claire Messud • Jacqueline Woodson Incest French Cultural CenterAnnabel Kim • Christine Angot • French Cultural Center • French Embassy in the U.S. 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 Welcome to Night Vale: It Devours! Emmanuel SanctuaryVirginia Prescott • Jeffrey Cranor • Joseph Fink

3:45pm EDT

Fiction: Missed Connections BPL Rabb HallDawn Tripp • Eshkol Nevo • Celeste Ng • Lily Tuck

4:00pm EDT

Martin Tamisier Berklee StageMartin Tamisier

5:30pm EDT

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