Boston Book Festival 2019

From Harvard, MIT, and Lesley to Emerson, BC, and BU, the Boston Book Festival’s author lineup has always been enriched by our proximity to so many world-class colleges and universities. It’s about time that we put together a session of novels set on campus, too! Debut novelist Elizabeth Ames lives with her family on Harvard’s campus, so she knows of what she writes; her novel The Other’s Gold explores the moral crises of four dorm suitemates both during and after college. In Around Harvard Square, CJ Farley, former editor of the Harvard Lampoon, pens a satirical novel that touches on issues of race, class, and privilege. Mona Awad’s darkly comedic Bunny might make any aspiring MFA students think twice about their choices, as an outsider desperate for acceptance gets invited to an exclusive workshop--and drawn into a nightmarish world. And Jeanne Blasberg’s The Nine is set on the campus of an exclusive New Hampshire boarding school whose ivy-clad walls hide some sinister secrets. Pull on your favorite college sweatshirt and join us for a master class in storytelling, hosted by novelist Lisa Borders, author most recently of The Fifty-First State.