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Thursday
, October 26
Barbershop Lounge
7:30pm •
Lit Crawl: The Complete Works of James Joyce in 44 Minutes
8:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Regie Gibson Live!
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
6:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Erica Ferencik, author of the River at Night
7:30pm •
Lit Crawl: A Taste of Boston Food Writing
Brooks Brothers
8:30pm •
Lit Crawl: GrubStreet and Brookline Booksmith Present Literary Balderdash
Converse
7:30pm •
Lit Crawl: MassLEAP Youth Poetry Slam All-Stars
Emerson College Dining Room
8:30pm •
Lit Crawl: A Night of Blackout Poetry with Ploughshares
MiniLuxe
8:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Literary Mad Libs!
Room & Board
6:30pm •
Lit Crawl: GrownUp StoryTime
7:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Improv Edgar Allan Poe
Salon Acote
8:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Four Stories
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
6:30pm •
Lit Crawl: Trick or Trivia
7:30pm •
Lit Crawl: No Fixed Address
Urban Arts Media Art Gallery @ Emerson College
6:00pm •
Lit Crawl: City of Notions
8:00pm •
Lit Crawl: Words and Music
Friday
, October 27
Old South Church Sanctuary
7:30pm •
The Book Revue: An Author Variety Show
Saturday
, October 28
Berklee Stage
11:00am •
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
12:00pm •
Nativa
1:00pm •
Maro
2:00pm •
Tyson Jackson
3:00pm •
Mayah Dyson
4:00pm •
Martin Tamisier
Boston Common Hotel Carver
10:45am •
BBF Unbound: The Joys and Realities of Small Press Publishing
12:30pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Poetry
2:00pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Debuts
3:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Writing from Privilege
Boston Common Hotel Hancock
10:00am •
Writer Idol
12:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Literary Never Have I Ever
1:30pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Perspective
3:15pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Setting
BPL Children's Library
10:00am •
Story Time with Susanna Chapman
11:00am •
Story Time with Gaia Cornwall
12:00pm •
Story Time with Matt de la Peña
1:00pm •
Story Time with Aram Kim
2:00pm •
Story Time with Bryan Collier
3:00pm •
Story Time with Javaka Steptoe
4:00pm •
Story Time with Julia Denos and E.B. Goodale
BPL Civic Table
11:00am •
Where We Find Ourselves: Record Your Story
12:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
1:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
2:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
3:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
BPL Commonwealth Salon
12:30pm •
Our Digital Future
2:00pm •
Fiction: War and the Home Front
3:30pm •
#LookItUP: Knowledge Matters
BPL Exchange
10:45am •
BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer
12:15pm •
BBF Unbound: The How and Why of Feminist Romance
1:45pm •
BBF Unbound: Ecological Writing
3:15pm •
Hush/Shut Up/Please Be Quiet
BPL Guastavino Hall
10:00am •
Hubbub at the BBF
10:00am •
Join the Search for Waldo!
10:00am •
History of Halloween
10:30am •
Appearance by Nutbrown Hare
11:30am •
Appearance by Olivia
12:00pm •
Ammi-Joan Paquette book signing
12:00pm •
Blinkie Paper a Favorite Book Scene: Family Paper Electronics!
12:30pm •
Appearance by Maisy
1:00pm •
Jamie Harper book signing
1:30pm •
Appearance by Elephant and Piggie
2:00pm •
Scott Magoon book signing
2:30pm •
Identity Crowns and Shields
2:30pm •
Appearance by Waldo
3:00pm •
Peter H. Reynolds book signing
3:30pm •
Music with Ms. Wyndy
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
10:30am •
Readings: Short Stories
11:30am •
Readings: Coming of Age
12:30pm •
Readings: Past and Present
1:30pm •
Readings: Relationships
2:30pm •
Readings: Memoir
3:30pm •
Readings: Essays and Musings
BPL Orientation Room
12:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Defining Diversity
2:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Rhyme Time
BPL Rabb Hall
11:00am •
The Biker, the Baker, and the Dumpling Maker
12:30pm •
Atlas Obscura
2:00pm •
Bosch, Bruegel, and the Depiction of Extreme Conditions
3:45pm •
Fiction: Missed Connections
BPL Rey Room
10:30am •
Shadow Puppet Playground
12:00pm •
The Magic of Pop-Up Books
1:30pm •
Find Your Story, Draw Your Story
3:00pm •
Dinosaurs Alive
BPL Teen Central
11:00am •
Middle Grade: Solving Problems
12:30pm •
Middle Grade: Reimagination
2:00pm •
YA: Fantasy Worlds
3:30pm •
YA: It's Getting Real
Church of the Covenant
11:00am •
The Beatles
12:30pm •
Geopolitics
2:15pm •
Fiction Keynote
3:45pm •
Memoir: Ties that Bind
Copley Park Lawn
11:00am •
Passport to Imagination
2:00pm •
Kids Groove
Emmanuel Parish Hall
11:30am •
Memoir Keynote
1:00pm •
YA Keynote
2:30pm •
Memoir: Strange Journeys
4:00pm •
Muhammad Ali: Conscience of a Fighter
Emmanuel Sanctuary
11:00am •
YA: Truth and Consequences
12:30pm •
Memoir and True Crime: The Prison of the Self
2:00pm •
Fiction: The Naughty Bits
3:30pm •
Welcome to Night Vale: It Devours!
French Cultural Center
11:00am •
The Safe House
12:45pm •
The End of Eddy
2:15pm •
Incest
4:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Writing in Paris
Old South Church Sanctuary
10:45am •
Kids' Keynote
12:00pm •
Fiction: Strangers in a Strange Land
1:45pm •
Memoir: Arrivals and Departures
3:15pm •
Keep Us in Suspense
4:45pm •
The State of Affairs
Old South Guild Room
11:45am •
One Land, Two Peoples: The Kingdom of Olives and Ash
1:15pm •
Gumshoes to Cyber Sleuths
2:45pm •
The Secret Chord
4:15pm •
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing
Old South Mary Norton Hall
11:00am •
Discover the Magic of Children's Book Making
12:30pm •
Vegas: Architecture, Urbanism and the American Dream
2:15pm •
Natural and Unnatural History
3:45pm •
One City One Story
Trinity Forum
12:00pm •
Good Leaders
1:30pm •
This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home
3:00pm •
Voices of America: The Immigrant Experience Through a Writer’s Eyes
Trinity Sanctuary
11:15am •
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
1:00pm •
Politics: Where We Find Ourselves
2:45pm •
Racism in America: It's a Crime
XHALE
5:30pm •
Poems and Pints
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America/New York
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, October 27
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, October 28
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Barbershop Lounge
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BPL Commonwealth Salon
BPL Exchange
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BPL Newsfeed Cafe
BPL Orientation Room
BPL Rabb Hall
BPL Rey Room
BPL Teen Central
Brooks Brothers
Church of the Covenant
Converse
Copley Park Lawn
Emerson College Dining Room
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Emmanuel Sanctuary
French Cultural Center
MiniLuxe
Old South Church Sanctuary
Old South Guild Room
Old South Mary Norton Hall
Room & Board
Salon Acote
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Trinity Forum
Trinity Sanctuary
Urban Arts Media Art Gallery @ Emerson College
XHALE
