Boston Book Festival 2019 has ended

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Boston Book Festival 2019

10:00am

L'Averti French Cultural CenterIngrid Marquardt • Vanessa Léger • French Cultural Center • Regroupement des éditeurs franco-canadiens

10:30am

Readings: Coming of Age BPL Newsfeed CafeLaura Szaro Kopinski • Cambria Brockman • Dana Czapnik • Susan Bernhard

10:45am

BBF Unbound: Writing Beyond Binaries BAC BeehiveMilo Todd • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich • Alex Myers • Cameron Awkward-Rich • Gabe Cole Novoa • Kay Ulanday Barrett • L Nichols • Lisa Bunker

11:00am

BBF Unbound: Mystery Making BPL Orientation RoomConnie Johnson Hambley • Edith Maxwell • Frankie Y Bailey • Hallie Ephron • Joanna Schaffhausen • Kate Flora Fiction: Writing the Writers BPL Abbey RoomRobin Kall • Christopher Castellani • Roxana Robinson • Steven Rowley • Greenough Brand Storytellers Reconsidering Appalachia BPL Commonwealth SalonRusty Barnes • Chelsea Jack • Madeline ffitch • Meredith McCarroll

11:30am

Readings: Debut Novels BPL Newsfeed CafeJessica A. Kent • Bill Banfield • Karen Dukess • Mark Guerin BBF Unbound: Long Time Gone Emmanuel Parish HallKelly J. Ford • Desmond Hall • Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne • Marjan Kamali

12:00pm

Crime Fiction: For You My Love Forever French Cultural CenterIngrid Marquardt • Suzan Payne • French Cultural Center • Regroupement des éditeurs franco-canadiens

12:15pm

Reading Like a Writer: Experimentation BAC BeehiveMichelle Hoover • Christopher Boucher • Ron MacLean • Sarah Rose Etter Reading Like a Writer: Perspective BPL McKim Exhibition HallDawn Tripp • Sandra Newman • Susan Choi • Daphne Kalotay

12:30pm

BBF Unbound: The Novelist’s Feast: Four Authors on Food in Fiction BPL Orientation RoomChristina Koliander • Crystal L King • Jenna Blum • Louise Miller • Ramin Ganeshram Emerald Noir BPL Commonwealth SalonDavid Leonard • Kelly Creighton • Sharon Dempsey

1:00pm

City of Jasmine 199 Commonwealth AveKaty Derbyshire • Olga Grjasnowa • Goethe-Institut Boston Fiction: Motherhood BAC Cascieri HallLynne Griffin • Helen Phillips • Kate Walbert • Linda Boström Knausgård

1:45pm

Readings: Great New (England) Reads BPL Newsfeed CafeRobin Kall • Carla Neggers • Lisa Duffy • Randy Susan Meyers Death Among Friends: Crime Gets Personal BPL McKim Exhibition HallMo Walsh • Brendan DuBois • Chris Knopf • Elisabeth Elo • Frances McNamara • Mystery Writers of America–New England

2:00pm

Shape Shifting the Story: Fiction in Its Long and Short Forms BPL Commonwealth SalonJessica Keener • Brendan Mathews • Mira T. Lee • Steve Yarbrough • Massachusetts Center for the Book Is There Still Sex in the City? Old South SanctuaryRobin Young • Candace Bushnell • Ada Calhoun Reading Like a Writer: Setting BPL Orientation RoomMichelle Hoover • Jennifer Acker • Lauren Acampora • Pablo Medina

2:30pm

Fiction: Art and Artists BAC Cascieri HallDawn Tripp • Catherine Cusset • Whitney Scharer • Other Press

2:45pm

Readings: Family BPL Newsfeed CafeBradley Babendir • Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne • Katrin Schumann • Leah Hager Cohen

3:15pm

Fiction: Campus Novels BAC BeehiveLisa Borders • CJ Farley • Elizabeth Ames • Jeanne Blasberg • Mona Awad

3:30pm

"The Butlah Did It": Mysteries with a Boston Accent Old South Mary NortonCallum Borchers • Adam Abramowitz • Edwin Hill • Hank Phillippi Ryan • Kate Racculia One City One Story BPL Commonwealth SalonAlicia Anstead • Ciera Burch • BookBub

3:45pm

Readings: Past and Present BPL Newsfeed CafeKit Haggard • Kris Frieswick • Marjan Kamali • Rachel Barenbaum Fiction Keynote Old South SanctuaryAndre Dubus III • Elizabeth Strout • Bookforum

4:00pm

Fiction: The Complexities of War Emmanuel Parish HallCatherine Parnell • Abbigail N. Rosewood • Maaza Mengiste • Tim Murphy

4:45pm

PEN Presents: Activism, Free Expression, and Dissent in Eurasia BAC BeehivePolina Kovaleva • Katherine E. Young • Lev Golinkin • PEN America

12:30pm

Readings: Short Stories Dewitt Center ClassroomNakia Hill • Chaya Bhuvaneswar • Dariel Suarez • Mandeliene Smith • Massachusetts Center for the Book

3:00pm

Blues Men Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomJosé Massó • Bill Banfield • Clifford Thompson

3:30pm

Fiction: Immigration Dewitt Center ClassroomDanielle Legros Georges • Juliet Grames • Ruvanee Vilhauer

4:30pm

One City One Story Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomAlicia Anstead • Ciera Burch • BookBub Romance Keynote: Jasmine Guillory Dewitt Center GymMeredith Goldstein • Jasmine Guillory