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Friday
, October 12
Old South Sanctuary
7:30pm •
Kickoff Keynote
Saturday
, October 13
Berklee Stage, Copley Square
9:30am •
Morning Dance Party
11:00am •
Hip & Hop in the House
12:00pm •
Tyson Jackson
1:00pm •
Autumn Jones
2:00pm •
Sheila del Bosque
3:00pm •
Malaya
4:00pm •
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
Boston Architectural College Cascieri Hall
11:15am •
Berlin
12:45pm •
How to Invent Everything
2:15pm •
Urbanism
4:00pm •
The Mind's Eye: Art and Reading
Boston Architectural College The Beehive
10:30am •
BBF Unbound: Sister Resisters: A Celebration of Feminism through Romance
12:00pm •
Jerusalem's Old City: Under My Window
1:30pm •
Memoir: Confronting a Nazi Past
3:00pm •
Fiction: Death by Design
4:30pm •
Intelligent Designs
BPL Children's Library
10:00am •
Join the Search for Waldo
10:00am •
Story Time with Brian Lies
10:45am •
Story Time with Sheetal Sheth
11:30am •
Story Time with Francie Latour and Ken Daley
12:15pm •
Story Time with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
1:00pm •
Story Time with Raúl Colón
1:45pm •
Story Time with Melissa Stewart
2:30pm •
Story Time with Adam Rex
3:15pm •
Story Time with Anika Denise
4:00pm •
Story Time with Andrea Beaty
BPL Civic Table (outside BPL entrance)
12:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
1:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
3:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
4:00pm •
Boston By Foot Tour
BPL Commonwealth Salon
11:00am •
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine: When Astrophysics Meets Spirituality
12:30pm •
Massachusetts Fiction Writers on Their Craft and Culture
2:00pm •
In the Public Interest?
3:30pm •
Crossing Languages: A Journey of Poetry and Translation
BPL Exchange
10:30am •
BBF Unbound: Making Poems Better
12:00pm •
BBF Unbound: A Home Is a Poem
1:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Take Your Audio Shelfie
3:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Telling Your Personal Story in a Time of Crisis
BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
10:30am •
Bullets into Bells: Poetry and Music
12:15pm •
Mister Rogers
1:45pm •
Dangerous Places
3:15pm •
BBF Unbound: Self-Publishing for Authors Who Want to Make It Big
BPL McKim Lower Level B
10:45am •
Reading Like a Writer: Perspective
12:15pm •
Middle Grade: Ghosts, Golems, and Gigantic Lizards
1:45pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Setting
3:15pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Character
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
10:30am •
Readings: Unforgettable Stories
11:30am •
Readings: Fun and Feminist Historical Fiction
12:30pm •
Readings: Finding the Way
1:30pm •
Readings: Intimacy, Intrigue, and Inheritance
2:30pm •
Readings: Reimagining History
3:30pm •
Readings: Secrets and Suspense
BPL Orientation Room
3:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Free Write: A Reentry and Recovery Workshop Experience
BPL Rabb Hall
9:30am •
Circle Round
10:45am •
Rage Against the Screen: Gathering IRL
12:30pm •
Memoir: Love Letters
2:00pm •
Renaissance Redux
3:30pm •
Public Affairs Keynote
BPL Rey Room
10:00am •
Comics in Color
11:15am •
Atlas Obscura Workshop
12:45pm •
Setting the Scene: Maps // Stories
2:00pm •
Science Comics Workshop
3:30pm •
Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon
BPL Teen Central
10:30am •
YA: Hard Truths
12:00pm •
YA: Space!
1:30pm •
YA: What's the Inspiration?
3:00pm •
Middle Grade: Choices and Challenges
Brainstorm Tent, Copley Square
10:00am •
Passport to Imagination
10:30am •
Appearance by Paddington
10:30am •
Nature in the City
11:30am •
Appearance by Rainbow Fish
12:00pm •
Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers
12:30pm •
Appearance by Taco Dragon
1:30pm •
Appearance by Maisy
2:00pm •
Everywhere and Nowhere
2:30pm •
Appearance by Mother Bruce
3:00pm •
Everywhere and Nowhere
3:30pm •
Appearance by Madeline
Church of the Covenant
10:30am •
Fiction: Out of the Shadows
12:15pm •
Fiction: Love and Trauma
2:00pm •
Saving Planet Earth
3:30pm •
Fiction Keynote
5:00pm •
YA Keynote
Emmanuel Parish Hall
11:00am •
Fiction: Hilarity and Heartache
12:45pm •
True Story
2:30pm •
What an MFA in Creative Writing Can Do for You (And What It Can't)
4:15pm •
Memoir: Identity
Emmanuel Sanctuary
10:15am •
Youth Activism
11:45am •
Not Just a Game: Sports and Social Change
1:30pm •
Strange but True Crime
3:15pm •
Caught in the Middle: The Other America
5:00pm •
Humanities Keynote
French Cultural Center
11:00am •
Compositions
12:45pm •
Desirable Body
2:15pm •
Dévorés
La Scuola at Eataly Boston
11:30am •
Lost in Translation
1:00pm •
Eating from the Ground Up
Old South Guild Room
10:30am •
Writer Idol
12:30pm •
BBF Unbound: Queering the Canon
2:15pm •
MIT Press Pitchfest
4:00pm •
Fiction: The Personal Is Political
Old South Mary Norton
10:45am •
Memoir: Animal Story
12:15pm •
BBF Unbound: Twitter Ate My Brain
1:45pm •
Fiction: Between Cultures
3:15pm •
Diplomacy: The Art of the Deal
4:45pm •
National Book Foundation Presents: Why Do Awards Matter?
Old South Sanctuary
10:00am •
Kids' Keynote
11:30am •
Capitalism vs. Democracy
1:15pm •
Authoritarianism
3:15pm •
On Leadership
5:00pm •
The Edge of Fame
Room & Board
6:00pm •
Poems and Pints
Trinity Church Steps
10:30am •
Aesop's Fables in Copley Square
Trinity Forum
11:00am •
America's Original Sin: Racism
12:30pm •
Fiction: Myth, Fate, and Family
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, October 12
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, October 13
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Fiction
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All
Kickoff Keynote
On Leadership
Poetry
Sessions for Writers
Ticketed Events
All
Kickoff Keynote
On Leadership
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Berklee Stage, Copley Square
Boston Architectural College Cascieri Hall
Boston Architectural College The Beehive
BPL Children's Library
BPL Civic Table (outside BPL entrance)
BPL Commonwealth Salon
BPL Exchange
BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
BPL McKim Lower Level B
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
BPL Orientation Room
BPL Rabb Hall
BPL Rey Room
BPL Teen Central
Brainstorm Tent, Copley Square
Church of the Covenant
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Emmanuel Sanctuary
French Cultural Center
La Scuola at Eataly Boston
Old South Guild Room
Old South Mary Norton
Old South Sanctuary
Room & Board
Trinity Church Steps
Trinity Forum
