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Boston Book Festival 2017

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6:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: GrownUp StoryTime Room & BoardLitquake • Boston Literary District Lit Crawl: Trick or Trivia Trident Booksellers & CafeMeredith Goldstein • Litquake • 826 Boston • Boston Literary District

7:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: Improv Edgar Allan Poe Room & BoardWheel of Austen • Litquake • Boston Literary District Lit Crawl: MassLEAP Youth Poetry Slam All-Stars ConverseMassLEAP Youth Poets • Litquake • Boston Literary District Lit Crawl: No Fixed Address Trident Booksellers & CafeJames Parker • Litquake • Boston Literary District

8:30pm EDT

Lit Crawl: A Night of Blackout Poetry with Ploughshares Emerson College Dining RoomMatthew Lippman • January Gill O’Neil • Tim Suermondt • Litquake • Ploughshares • Boston Literary District Lit Crawl: Four Stories Salon AcoteSteven Beeber • Olivia Kate Cerrone • E. Dolores Johnson • Whitney Scharer • Courtney Sender • Litquake • 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

10:45am EDT

BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer BPL ExchangeLouise Miller Kids' Keynote Old South Church SanctuaryLemony Snicket

11:00am EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy Berklee StageMarlon Carey • Regie Gibson 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

Good Leaders Trinity ForumAnthony Brooks • Nancy Koehn • Anthony Tjan

12:30pm EDT

Readings: Past and Present BPL Newsfeed CafeRobin Kall • Ellen Herrick • Julie Lekstrom Himes • Crystal King Atlas Obscura BPL Rabb HallZeninjor Enwemeka • Ella Morton • Boston Public Library Geopolitics Church of the CovenantNicholas Burns • Graham Allison • Meghan L. O'Sullivan Reading Like a Writer: Poetry Boston Common Hotel CarverAlicia Anstead • Stephanie Burt • Myronn Hardy • Erika L. Sánchez

12:45pm EDT

The End of Eddy French Cultural CenterBruno Perreau • Édouard Louis • French Cultural Center • French Embassy in the U.S.

1:30pm EDT

Readings: Relationships BPL Newsfeed CafeRobin Kall • Sylvia Brownrigg • Joshua Max Feldman • Sarah Healy Reading Like a Writer: Perspective Boston Common Hotel HancockDawn Tripp • Rachel Kadish • Brendan Mathews • Paul Yoon

1:45pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Ecological Writing BPL ExchangeKatie Mather • Tamara Ellis Smith

2:00pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Rhyme Time BPL Orientation RoomMichele Simos • Oliver "SydeSho" Arias Fiction: The Naughty Bits Emmanuel SanctuaryEloisa James • Daniel Handler • Alissa Nutting • Tom Perrotta 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 Natural and Unnatural History Old South Mary Norton HallVicki Croke • Ben Mezrich • Kathryn Miles

3:15pm EDT

Reading Like a Writer: Setting Boston Common Hotel HancockHenriette Lazaridis • Brunonia Barry • Jessie Chaffee • Erica Ferencik Hush/Shut Up/Please Be Quiet BPL ExchangeMargot Livesey

3:30pm EDT

Readings: Essays and Musings BPL Newsfeed CafeAnjali Mitter Duva • Will Dowd • Minna Zallman Proctor • Leslie Stein

3:45pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

BBF Unbound: Writing in Paris French Cultural CenterKelly MacFarland • Marcia DeSanctis • Lauren Grodstein • Stacey Resnikoff

4:45pm EDT

The State of Affairs Old South Church SanctuaryRobin Young • Esther Perel