Boston Book Festival

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The Art of The Wire:  A Discussion with Cast and Creators

Friday, October 14, 7:30pm BBEC Hancock

Poetry: Personae, Self-Portrait As…

featuring Sandra Beasley and Jessica Bozek, hosted by Stephen Burt, 10:30am BPL Washington Room

Writer Idol

agents and editors critique anonymous excerpts in this interactive session, 10:30am OSC Mary Norton Hall 

Kids’ Keynote: Mo Willems

featuring Mo Willems, hosted by Jef Czekaj, 10:45am BBEC Hancock

Don’t Know Much About Boston History Quiz

featuring Kenneth C. Davis, 11:00am Trinity Sanctuary

Crime Fiction: The Killer Panel

featuring Joseph Finder, Chuck Hogan, and George Pelecanos, hosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan, 11:00am OSC Sanctuary

Steampunk!

featuring Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Holly Black, and Allison DeBlasio, hosted by Maya Escobar, 11:00am BPL Rabb

Alone Together: Anti-Social Networks?

featuring Sherry Turkle, Ethan Gilsdorf, and Sue Hallowell, hosted by Andrew McAfee, 11:15am BBEC Quincy

Eat Your Words

featuring Joan Nathan, Lisa Abend, Anka Muhlstein, and Amy Traverso, hosted by Donna Garlough, 12:00pm BPL Washington Room

Boys and Girls: Different, or Not So Much?

featuring Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Barnett, and Niobe Way, hosted by Richard Weissbourd, 12:30pm BPL Abbey

YA Fiction: On the Edge

featuring Danica Novgorodoff, Ellen Levine, and Daniel Nayeri, hosted by Amy Pattee, 12:30pm Old South Mary Norton

Frontiers of Science

featuring Stephen Greenblatt, Lisa Randall, and Siddhartha Mukherjee, hosted by Christopher Lydon, 12:45pm, Trinity Sanctuary

A Reason to Lead

featuring Governor Deval Patrick and Guy Raz, 12:45pm BBEC Hancock Hall

Fiction: Time Is . . .

featuring Jennifer Egan, Peter Mountford, and Lawrence Douglas, hosted by Henriette Lazaridis Power, 12:45pm Old South Sanctuary

Funny Kids’ Fiction: Dictionaries, Scrabble, and Magical Aunties

featuring Julia Alvarez, Meg Wolitzer, Chris Raschka, and Linda Urban, hosted by Kathy Piehl, 12:45pm BPL Rabb

Sports: Writers on Deck

featuring Jane Leavy, Thomas Whalen, and Glenn Stout, hosted by Bill Littlefield, 1:00pm BBEC Quincy

Music Legends

featuring Bob Blumenthal and Tim Riley, hosted by William Banfield, 1:45pm BPL Washington Room

Poetry: New Directions 75th Anniversary Reading

featuring Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, and Forrest Gander, hosted by Jeffrey Yang, 2:00pm BPL Abbey

Flash Fiction Open Mic

emceed by Henriette Lazaridis Power, 2:00pm Old South Mary Norton

The Civil War

featuring Adam Goodheart, Tony Horwitz, Charles Bracelen Flood, and Drew Gilpin Faust, hosted by Annette Gordon-Reed, 2:15pm BBEC Hancock

New England Stories: Readings in the Forum

featuring Holly LeCraw, James MacManus, and Dawn Tripp, hosted by Michelle Hoover, 2:15pm Trinity Forum

Graphic Novels: Drawing the Story

featuring Daniel Clowes, Seth, and Alison Bechdel, hosted by Robin Brenner, 2:30pm Trinity Sanctuary

True Story

featuring Mitchell Zuckoff, Michael Willrich, and Emma Rothschild, hosted by Robin Young, 2:30pm BBEC Quincy

How to Live

featuring Sarah Bakewell, Howard Gardner, and Michael Jackson, hosted by Joseph Koerner, 2:30pm Old South Sanctuary

Fiction: Truth and Consequences

featuring Ha Jin, Jennifer Haigh, and Vanessa Diffenbaugh, hosted by Ladette Randolph, 2:30pm BPL Rabb

Fresh Thinking for a Small Planet

featuring Frances Moore Lappé and Susanne Freidberg, hosted by Sacha Pfeiffer, 3pm BPL Washington Room

Page and Stage: Teen Spoken Word

hosted by Regie Gibson, 4:00pm Old South Church Mary Norton

One City One Story

featuring Richard Russo, hosted by Alicia Anstead, 4:00pm BPL Rabb

Memoir: Writing a Life

featuring Ben Ryder Howe, Carlos Eire, Maisie Houghton, and Sandra Beasley, hosted by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, 4:15pm BBEC Quincy

Local Talent: Readings in the Forum

featuring Steve Almond, Laura Harrington, and Michael Klein, hosted by Kim McLarin, 4:15pm Trinity Forum

Far Out Fiction

featuring Gregory Maguire, Karen Russell, Chuck Klosterman, and Kate Beaton, hosted by Eugenia Williamson, 4:30pm Trinity Sanctuary

Learning Learning

featuring Nicholas Negroponte, Sugata Mitra, and Idit Harel Caperton, hosted by Mark Nieker, 4:30pm BBEC Hancock

What’s Up With Men?

featuring Andre Dubus III, Stephen McCauley, Tom Matlack, and Jabari Asim, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, 4:30pm Old South Sanctuary

Keynote: Michael Ondaatje

featuring Michael Ondaatje, hosted by Homi Bhabha, 6:30pm BBEC Hancock