8:00pm EDT
Storytelling for Page and Screen: Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, and Tom Perrotta
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Robin Young brings more than twenty-five years of broadcast experience to her role as co-host of Here & Now, a WBUR-produced daily news magazine that airs on NPR stations nationwide. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television...
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Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer of novels, plays, short stories, and nonfiction whose bestselling 2010 novel Room--along with her adapted screenplay for the 2015 film directed by Lenny Abrahamson--is a striking depiction of parenthood and love in the midst of the horror of...
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Tom Perrotta is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose articles and essays have been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian, and GQ. He is the author of five novels, including Election, The Abstinence Teacher, The Wishbones, and Little Children...
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Maria Semple debuted as a novelist in 2008 with the publication of This One is Mine, followed in 2012 by the nationally-bestselling epistolary novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, which won the 2013 American Library Association Alex Award and was a 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction...
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Story Time with Deirdre Sullivan and Maja Löfdahl
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Maja Löfdahl is a Cambridge-based illustrator. She studied painting at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and has since illustrated Ming Goes to School, a children’s book by Deirdre Sullivan, which Publishers Weekly calls a “cozy portrait of everyday discoveries...
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Deirdre Sullivan lives in Boston. Her debut picture book is Ming Goes to School, which Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls “a cozy portrait of the everyday discoveries and accomplishments that school can bring.”Links:
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10:00am EDT
Writer Idol
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Christopher Castellani is an acclaimed author, educator, and recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. He is the artistic director of GrubStreet, one of the country’s leading nonprofit creative writing centers, and serves on the faculty and academic boards of the Warren...
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Sorche Fairbank established Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002 and has since represented best-selling authors, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists, and debut authors. She is a member of AAR, the Author’s Guild, and The Agents’ Roundtable. Her clients can be found...
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Katherine Flynn is a partner at the Kneerim & Williams Agency and has previously worked for the Sanford Greenburger Agency, taught literature and composition, and edited history textbooks. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown and represents history, biography, current affairs...
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Amaryah Orenstein is the founder of GO Literary, a Boston-based boutique agency. Through her work, she aims to give voice to a broad range of perspectives, representing a wide array of fiction and nonfiction that tackles big issues in engaging, accessible, and even surprising ways...
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BBF Unbound: Not Your Grandma's Romance
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Laurie Kahn’s films have won major awards, been shown on PBS primetime, broadcast around the world, and used widely in university classrooms and community groups. Her first film, A Midwife’s Tale, was based on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and it won an...
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USA Today bestselling author Judith Arnold knew she wanted to be a writer by the time she was four. With one hundred published novels to her name, she has been able to live her dream. Four of Judith's novels have received Reviewers Choice awards from RT Book Reviews, and she's been...
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Caroline Linden is the bestselling author of twenty romances. She earned a math degree from Harvard University and wrote computer software before turning to writing fiction. Her books have won the Daphne du Maurier Award, the Golden Leaf Award, and the Romance Writers of America’s...
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Myretta Robens is the president of the New England Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. She began writing historical romance novels in 2003 and created the Jane Austen website The Republic of Pemberley in 1997. Robens was first published in 2005, with Once Upon a Sofa. Her second...
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Cecilia Tan is an award-winning author of passionate fiction. RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015, and her novel Slow Surrender won the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence. She has been publishing Daron's Guitar Chronicles...
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10:30am EDT
Kids' Keynote: Jon Klassen
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Elissa Gershowitz is senior editor of the Horn Book Magazine and online content editor for The Horn Book, Inc. She is a current member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee.
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Kids' Keynote
Jon Klassen is a bestselling illustrator and author of children’s books who earned a 2013 Caldecott Medal for his book This is Not My Hat, as well as the 2011 New York Times Best Illustrated Book award for its sequel I Want My Hat Back. Combined, both books have spent more than...
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10:45am EDT
Reading Like a Writer: Social Commentary
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Michelle Hoover is a novelist, writer, teacher, and founder and current head of the Novel Incubator program at GrubStreet. She was a 2014 NEA Fellow, Writer-In-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, winner of the PEN / New England Discovery Award, and current Fannie...
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Suzanne Berne is a writer of essays, novels, and short stories whose first novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work includes the novels The Ghost at the Table and A Perfect Arrangement, as well as the memoir Missing Lucile. She currently...
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Meg Little Reilly is a writer and environmentalist who has worked previously in public radio, as Deputy Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, and as a spokesperson at the US Treasury. Her debut novel, We Are Unprepared, examines...
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Anna Solomon's whose short fiction has appeared in publications including One Story, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and Missouri Review and has won two Pushcart Prizes, the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize, and been nominated for the National Magazine Award. She is also the...
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Joaquina Mertz
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Joaquina Mertz was born in Mexico City, where she started music lessons at the age of five and continued her classical studies at Interlochen Center for the Arts. After graduating from high school she attended a small music school in Mexico City, where she discovered her love for...
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11:00am EDT
Fiction: My First Time
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Jabari Asim is a multidisciplinary journalist, editor, and critically acclaimed author of nonfiction and fiction for both children and adults. His nonfiction works, including What Obama Means...For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future and Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on...
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Louie Cronin is a writer and member of PRI’s The World team whose career in public radio has included producing The Connection and the long-running show Car Talk. A graduate of Boston University’s creative writing program, she has published in the Princeton Arts Review, the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine...
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Louise Miller has been a baker for over twenty years and currently lives and works in Boston as the pastry chef of The Union Club. She received a 2012 scholarship to attend GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, a yearlong workshop for novelists. Library Journal calls her debut novel...
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Hirsh Sawhney is a writer and novelist whose articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, the Indian Express, the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, and Outlook. He is also the editor of Delhi Noir, a...
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11:00am EDT
Middle Grade: The Power of Friendship
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Cathryn Mercier is the director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and a professor of English at Simmons College. She has contributed to the scholarship on children’s literature and children’s authors and served on numerous award committees.
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Ali Benjamin’s debut novel, The Thing About Jellyfish, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is the co-author of HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl’s memoir Positive and Tim Howard’s New York Times-bestseller The Keeper. Her writing...
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Paul Griffin is an author of novels for middle grade and young adults. His work includes Ten Mile River, Adrift, Burning Blue, Stay with Me, and The Orange House, which was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults Top Ten, an International Reading Association’s 2010 Notable Book...
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Jo Knowles is a teacher in the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University and recipient of a 2005 PEN literary award. She is the author of middle-grade and young adult books including Lessons from a Dead Girl, See You at Harry’s, Jumping off Swings, and Read Between the Lines...
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11:00am EDT
Poetry: The Poem Is You
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Erica Funkhouser is the author of several collections of poetry, including Earthly, Pursuit, Sure Shot and Other Poems, and Natural Affinities. She was a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Foundation grant for poetry, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker...
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Stephen Burt is an influential poet and critic whose work seeks to identify new and emerging movements in the form. A professor of English at Harvard University, his critical works demonstrate a passion for the classical and the contemporary, including The Art of the Sonnet, with...
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11:00am EDT
YA Keynote: Kami Garcia Talks with Samantha Lane
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A Midwestern girl currently living on the East Coast, Samantha Lane has been uploading bookish videos on her channel, Thoughts on Tomes, three times a week since 2014. She is currently the moderator for Top 5 Wednesday. When not discussing fictional characters online, Samantha can...
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Young Adult Keynote
Kami Garcia is an author of novels and short stories for young adults. A teacher for seventeen years, she debuted as a writer in 2009 with the #1 New York Times-bestselling novel Beautiful Creatures, originally written on a dare from her students with her best friend and co-author...
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11:00am EDT
De Père a Père
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Victoria Sandbrook is a speculative fiction writer, freelance editor and reviewer, and Viable Paradise graduate. Her short fiction has appeared in Giganotosaurus, Sword & Sonnet, Podcastle, Shimmer, and elsewhere. Victoria and her family live in Brockton, Massachusetts. She reviews...
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The son of Belgian novelist Georges Simenon, Pierre Simenon worked as a financial analyst and portfolio manager in a private bank in Geneva before leaving for the United States in 1987, where he became an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles. A diving instructor as well as a shark...
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Architecture Keynote: Frank Gehry Talks with Paul Goldberger
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Nicholas Negroponte is the co-founder (with Jerome B. Wiesner) of the MIT Media Lab, which he directed for its first twenty years. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. He gave the first...
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Architecture Keynote
Frank Gehry is an award-winning architect and designer whose sculptural designs often subvert traditional expectations of building material and architectural form. Gehry, who was born in Canada, immigrated to the United States in 1947 and studied architecture at the University of...
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Paul Goldberger is a Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic who is currently a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. He was the architecture critic for the New Yorker from 1997 to 2011 and, before that, the architecture critic for the New York Times, and he holds the Joseph Urban...
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11:15am EDT
Crime Fiction: Cold Comfort
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Amy MacKinnon is a former congressional aide whose commentaries have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, and on NPR and This American Life. Her debut novel, Tethered, was described by Booklist as a “haunting” and “gracefully rendered...
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Joseph Finder is a bestselling thriller writer and winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for Buried Secrets, winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for Killer Instinct, and winner of the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller for Company...
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Chris Holm is the author of the Collector Trilogy and award-winning short stories that have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and the Best American Mystery Stories 2011. His novels also include the Michael Hendricks thrillers series...
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Hank Phillippi Ryan is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate and is a thirty-three-time Emmy award winner. She is also an author of nine mystery novels and works of nonfiction, including Truth Be Told, What You See, and Writes of Passage. Ryan’s work has...
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11:15am EDT
Life Without Envy
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Camille DeAngelis is the author of Immaculate Heart, the Alex Award-winning Bones & All, Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker, and Mary Modern, as well as a first-edition guidebook, Moon Ireland. She is a graduate of New...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 11:15am - 12:15pm EDT
BPL Exchange
11:30am EDT
Story Time with Christian Robinson
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Christian Robinson is an award-winning picture book illustrator and animator from San Francisco. As an animator he has worked with Pixar and Sesame Workshop. His illustration credits include Josephine, The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade, Gaston, Leo: A Ghost Story, and the Newbery...
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11:30am EDT
Fiction: Creative Lives
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Christina Thompson is the editor of the Harvard Review and author of the memoir Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, which was shortlisted for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Prize. Thompson is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe whose articles and essays have appeared in...
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Lindsay Hatton holds an MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is the author of the debut novel Monterey Bay, a evocatively imagined historical novel set in John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row whose precise descriptions are informed by Hatton’s youth in Monterey...
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Dinita Smith is a writer, teacher, and novelist whose work includes The Illusionist, chosen as a New York Times notable book of the year. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, she has also taught writing at Columbia University...
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Dawn Tripp is a winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction and author of three novels set in New England: Moon Tide, The Season of Open Water, and Game of Secrets, a Boston Globe bestseller. Her essays have appeared in publications including the Virginia Quarterly Review...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
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11:30am EDT
Being Creative
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Zeninjor Enwemeka is a digital reporter at WBUR, covering all things relevant to people in Greater Boston on wbur.org. Before joining WBUR, she worked as a breaking news writer for Boston.com and spent several years as a homepage producer for the website. Enwemeka was part of the...
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Alexa Clay is a writer, strategist, and leading expert on social innovation. She is cofounder of the League of Intrapreneurs, a movement to create change from within big business; founder of Wisdom Hackers; and cofounder / director of the collective The Human Agency, a global nonprofit...
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Pagan Kennedy is a writer, journalist, and creator of the popular New York Times Magazine column Who Made That? She is the author of eleven books, including Black Livingstone, a New York Times notable book, and The First Man-Made Man, an acclaimed biography of transgender pioneer...
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11:30am EDT
Industries of the Future
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Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society. His 2014 book on these topics, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (co-authored with Erik...
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Beth Comstock was named Vice Chair of General Electric in August 2015. In this capacity, she leads GE’s efforts to accelerate new growth and operates GE Business Innovations, which develops new businesses, markets, and service models. From 2008 to 2015, Comstock served as GE’s...
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Joi Ito is an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and director of the MIT Media Lab. An early investor in web companies including Twitter, Flickr, and Kickstarter, he is an advocate for emergent democracy, privacy, and internet freedom. He holds an honorary D.Litt from The...
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Michael E. Porter is widely recognized as the father of modern business strategy. He is a University Professor at Harvard Business School, where he is the head of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Porter’s work applies the language of economics to corporate strategy...
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Alec Ross is a leading expert on innovation. He is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University and serves as an advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders to help them understand the implication of factors emerging at the intersection of geopolitics...
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Lesley Mok
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Lesley Mok, a native of the Bay Area, is an accomplished drummer and recent graduate of Berklee College of Music. She has been a part of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute for the past two years, where she studies under artistic director Danilo Perez, along with artists-in-residence...
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BBF Unbound: Behind One Writers' Group Curtain
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Randy Susan Meyers is the author of three novels, including The Murderer’s Daughters and Accidents of Marriage, both of which were finalists for the Massachusetts Book Awards. She teaches writing at GrubStreet. Meyers’s next novel, The Widow of Wall Street, will be published in...
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Nichole Bernier is a journalist, editor, and author whose novel The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D spent eight weeks on the Boston Globe bestseller list and was a finalist for the New England Booksellers fiction award. A contributing editor for Conde Nast Traveler magazine for fourteen...
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Kathy Crowley is a physician at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her short stories have appeared in Ontario Review, Fish Stories, The Literary Review, New Millenium Writings, and The Marlboro Review. She has...
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Juliette Fay’s first published novel, Shelter Me, was designated as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2009 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. It was also named to the Indie Next List of the American Booksellers Association, was chosen as one of six novels for Target’s...
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E. B. Moore is a retired sculptor, novelist, and poet whose poetry has appeared in journals including The Drum and Inkwell and been collected in New Eden: A Legacy. She is the author of An Unseemly Wife--based on family stories from her Amish roots in Lancaster, Pennsylvania--which...
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12:00pm EDT
Paper Doll Portraits
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Ekua Holmes is an award-winning artist whose work in Boston earned her a 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Community. She is a painter and collage artist who uses news clippings, photographs, and found ephemera to construct vibrant new images that convey a sense of community...
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12:00pm EDT
The Way Things Work Now: David Macaulay
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Michael Hawley is the director of Special Projects and founder of MIT’s Go Expeditions program and has been on the faculty of MIT for nearly a decade, working on a wide array of creative projects with students in electrical engineering and in the Media Lab, where he held the Alex...
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David Macaulay is a visual storyteller and self-described “explainer” whose illustrated books demonstrate the origins, makeup, and workings of objects--from everyday utilitarian items to great engineering accomplishments--in a way that is accessible and entertaining for all ages...
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Biography: Extraordinary Lives
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Erica Morrison is a producer for WBUR's Here & Now. Prior to joining the WBUR staff in 2014, Erica worked at NPR on a variety of shows, including weekend All Things Considered, Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, and Morning Edition. Morrison also spent time as a print journalist writing...
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Daniel Bergner is a writer and journalist whose work includes What Do Women Want?; In the Land of Magic Soldiers, winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and a Lettre-Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage; and God of the Rodeo, a New York Times Notable...
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Alex Prud’homme is a journalist who has been a staff writer for Talk magazine, TIME, and People, among other publications. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. Prud’homme is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Forewarned, The...
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12:00pm EDT
Poems on the Spot
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Allison Adair’s recent poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2015, Boston Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), Shenandoah, and Southwest Review, among other journals. Winner of the Fall 2015 Orlando...
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Howard dePass Jr. is a spoken word poet and part of the art collective Caretakers of Humanity. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, he came to Boston for college and graduated from Boston University in the spring of 2014. Writing spoken word poetry for roughly four years now...
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12:15pm EDT
Readings: New Takes on Fantasy
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Boyah J. Farah is a writer who was born in Mogadishu, Somalia but grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts. He holds a graduate degree from University of Massachusetts Boston and he is now an educator at Bunker Hill Community College.
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Article by Farah for Transition Magazine
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Keith Donohue is an acclaimed writer of novels and nonfiction whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Holding a PhD from the Catholic University of America with a specialization in modern Irish literature, he is the...
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Ken Liu is a writer, translator of speculative fiction, lawyer, and software engineer. His debut novel The Grace of Kings won the Locus Best First Novel award and was a Nebula Finalist. His stories, collected in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, have appeared in various publications...
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Katie Schickel is obsessed with the ocean and with writing, and she’s made a career out of both, serving as an editor and as a scuba instructor, a first mate and a novelist. Her debut book, Housewitch, earned her a place on Booklist’s list of Top 10 Women’s Fiction in 2015...
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Story Time with Katrina Goldsaito
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Katrina Goldsaito is a journalist, producer, and writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, the Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and the Japan Times. Goldsaito previously worked in Tokyo as an on-camera TV journalist and producer for NHK-World, and her first children’s...
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Fiction: Turning Classics Inside Out
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Henriette Lazaridis’s work has been published in the New England Review, the New York Times online, Elle, and elsewhere. Lazaridis is the founding editor of The Drum online literary magazine. Her debut novel, The Clover House, explores issues of exile, nostalgia, belonging, and...
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Alison Case is a professor of English at Williams College, specializing in Victorian literature and the novel. Author of the respected text Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel and coauthor of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel...
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Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror whose short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, published in anthologies, and performed on NPR. Roses and Rot is her debut novel, a dark and compelling novel of sisterly ties that Publishers Weekly...
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Elizabeth Nunez is a bestselling and award-winning author, distinguished professor of English, and co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference, which she directed for eighteen years with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her novels include Boundaries...
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Middle Grade: Strange Creatures, Fantastic Voyages
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Lauren Rizzuto is a writer, reviewer, and a graduate of Simmons College’s Children’s Literature M.A. program, where she now teaches. She also works as a bookseller at the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline and reviews books for the Horn Book Guide.
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Elise Broach is a New York Times-bestselling author of picture books and novels for children and young adults, including Masterpiece, Shakespeare’s Secret, Desert Crossing, and Missing on Superstition Mountain. Her works have been selected as ALA Notable Books and Junior Library...
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Kate Milford is the New York Times bestselling author of novels for young adults and middle grade readers. Her work includes The Bone Lands, The Kairos Mechanism, Bluecrowne, and Greenglass House, which was a nominee for the National Book Award and winner of an Edgar Award for young...
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Jennifer Weiner is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author whose novels have spent over five years on the bestseller list, with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Her novels include Good in Bed; In Her Shoes, now a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette...
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Super Women
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Meghna Chakrabarti is the host of Radio Boston, WBUR’s acclaimed weekday show with a focus on news, in-depth interviews with extraordinary people, and analysis on broader issues that have an impact on Boston and beyond. She is also host of Modern Love: The Podcast, a collaborative...
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A versatile writer, speaker, and self-described “professional troublemaker,” Luvvie Ajayi is a thirteen-year blogging veteran whose pop culture and entertainment blog
Awesomely Luvvie draws in five hundred thousand readers a month. More recently, she’s expanded her online v...
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Moira Weigel, who graduated with a B.A. from Harvard in 2007, is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University. Her first book, Labors of Love: The Invention of Dating, is a feminist history of dating and how it overlaps with other kinds of gendered labor...
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Lindy West is a columnist at the Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and a freelance writer whose work focuses on feminism, social justice, humor, and body image. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, The Stranger, and others...
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12:30pm EDT
Author Camp: Library as eBook Discovery Platform
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Mitchell Davis is a publishing and media entrepreneur. He was the founder in 2000 of BookSurge, the world’s first integrated global print-on-demand and publishing services company, which was sold to Amazon.com in 2005 and re-branded as CreateSpace. Since 2008, he has been founder...
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LJ Cohen is a novelist, poet, blogger, ceramics artist, and relentless optimist. After twenty-five years as a physical therapist, Cohen now uses her clinical skills to injure characters in science fiction and fantasy novels. Derelict, the first book in her Halcyone Space series, was...
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Gledé Browne Kabongo writes intense psychological thrillers. She is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Game of Fear, Mark of Deceit (Eye of Fear Anthology), Swan Deception, and Conspiracy of Silence. Her love affair with books began as a young girl growing up in the Caribbean, where...
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PJ Sharon is an award-winning author of young adult books, including Pieces of Love, Heaven Is for Heroes, On Thin Ice, and Holt Medallion winner Savage Cinderella. The third book in her YA dystopian trilogy, Healing Waters, completes The Chronicles of Lily Carmichael Series, which...
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Fiction Keynote: Colson Whitehead Talks with Saeed Jones
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Saeed Jones’s debut poetry collection Prelude to Bruise was the winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award and a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. The book was also a finalist...
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Fiction Keynote
Colson Whitehead is a novelist, essayist, and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s, and Granta. He is the author of seven novels, most notably The Intuitionist, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; John Henry...
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12:45pm EDT
The Art of Perspective
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Christopher Castellani is an acclaimed author, educator, and recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. He is the artistic director of GrubStreet, one of the country’s leading nonprofit creative writing centers, and serves on the faculty and academic boards of the Warren...
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Samuel Batista
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Samuel Batista is an alto saxophone player born in Panama City. In 2009, Batista won a full scholarship through the Panama Jazz Festival to participate in Berklee’s summer program and later moved to Boston to study at Berklee on a prestigious Presidential Scholarship. At Berklee...
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Graphic Nonfiction: Telling the Story with Words and Pictures
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Alexander Danner is a writer, teacher, and co-creator / producer of Greater Boston, a serial audio drama. His fiction has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Event: Poetry & Prose, and Fantasy Scroll Magazine, as well as in the anthologies Machine of Death and The Girl at the End...
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Hillary Chute is a leading expert on comics whose scholarship aims to provide understanding of comics’ merged visual/graphic language as a literary form. A professor of English and art, media, and design at Northeastern, Chute was a visiting professor in English at Harvard for the...
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Sarah Glidden is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work centers on nonfiction reporting and acts as visual witness, appearing in various newspapers and magazines. After studying painting at Boston University in 2006, she self-published the first few chapters of what would become...
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1:00pm EDT
Life Is Good + Not Impossible: The Power of Optimism
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Erika Lantz is an associate producer in WBUR’s iLab. She leads and produces the Kind World project, a WBUR radio show and podcast which tells intimate stories about people whose lives have been profoundly affected by another. Share your story of kindness--email: kindworld@wbur...
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Mick Ebeling is a career producer and filmmaker as well as founder and CEO of the Not Impossible Foundation, a multiple award-winning social innovation lab and production company whose mission is “changing the world through technology and story.” His mantra of “commit, then...
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John Jacobs is co-founder and Chief Creative Optimist of Life is Good, which spreads the power of optimism through inspiring art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking nonprofit work. John and his brother Bert launched their business with $78 in their pockets, selling T-shirts...
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1:00pm EDT
The American Dream—A Dream Turned German: Immigration, Integration, and Citizenship in Germany
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Shannon Dooling is a reporter representing WBUR on a team of public radio station journalists in the New England News Collaborative. The NENC focuses on issues of regional interest including energy, transportation, immigration and the environment. She joined WBUR full time in 2013...
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Jagoda Marinić is a prize-winning speaker, writer, and novelist whose work focuses on themes and questions of identity, migration, citizenship, and integration. Holding a degree from Heidelberg University in political science and German and American literature, she is the founding...
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The Art of Experience
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Robert Wiesenberger is a doctoral candidate in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University focused on twentieth-century art, architecture, and design. He is also a critic at the Yale School of Art, where he teaches an MFA seminar on the history and theory...
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Caroline A. Jones is a scholar, writer, documentary filmmaker, and professor of art history in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT, with a focus on modern and contemporary art and its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception...
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Sarah Lewis is a curator, teacher, critic, art historian, and author of The Rise, a celebration of creativity and success through failure. She has held curatorial positions at Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art New York, served as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s Barclays...
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Clifford Ross is a multimedia artist who began his career as a painter and sculptor after graduating from Yale University in 1974. In the mid-1990s, Ross became interested in photography, beginning his well-known Hurricane series and pioneering breakthrough techniques. In 2002, Ross...
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Rebecca Uchill is an activist and writer who has worked as an independent curator and curatorial consultant for institutions including the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Mass MoCA. Cofounder and codirector of Experience Economies, her academic...
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1:15pm EDT
Memoir: The Personal Is Political
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Cathryn Clüver is the founding executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, which examines the challenges to negotiation and statecraft in the twenty-first century. She is also the executive director of the India and South Asia Program at the...
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Juliette Kayyem has spent over fifteen years managing government responses to major crises at the federal and state levels, most recently serving as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. She has also served as...
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Nina Willner is a former US Army intelligence officer who was stationed in Berlin during the Cold War. Since, she has gone on to promote human rights and education internationally, serving in the US State Department, various NGOs, and charitable organizations. Her debut memoir, Forty...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
BPL Abbey
1:30pm EDT
Story Time with Jabari Asim
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Jabari Asim is a multidisciplinary journalist, editor, and critically acclaimed author of nonfiction and fiction for both children and adults. His nonfiction works, including What Obama Means...For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future and Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on...
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1:30pm EDT
"X" Marks the Adventure
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The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is dedicated to the creative educational use of its cartographic holdings, which extend from the fifteenth century to the present. In pursuit of its mission, the Center collects and preserves maps and atlases, promotes...
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1:30pm EDT
Memoir: On the Margins
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Kelly Horan is an award-winning public radio producer and journalist, as well as the editor of WBUR’s ideas and opinion page Cognoscenti. She has also produced special series for WBUR, including an oral history project produced for the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing...
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Howard Axelrod’s essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Salon, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Arizona, and currently teaches writing at Loyola University in Chicago. His debut...
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William Giraldi is a critically acclaimed author and editor whose criticism has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Oxford American, Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, The Daily Beast, Virginia Quarterly, and the New Criterion. He is the author of two novels...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is an anthropologist, naturalist, and author of The Hidden Life of Dogs, a groundbreaking work of animal psychology that spent ten months as a New York Times bestseller. Throughout her long and varied career, Thomas has been the recipient of grants that allowed...
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Jerald Walker is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a professor of creative writing at Emerson college. His writing has been published in journals including the Harvard Review, Missouri Review, the Oxford American, Iowa Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and...
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1:30pm EDT
Watchdog: The Role of the Journalist in a Democracy
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Alysia Abbott is the director of Boston’s first-in-the-nation Literary District. A graduate of the New School’s Writing Program, she instructs memoir and essay at GrubStreet. She is also the author of the memoir Fairyland, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times, awarded...
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Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. He served as the Globe's legal affairs...
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Mitchell Zuckoff is the Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies at Boston University and the author of seven nonfiction books. His most recent book, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. His two previous...
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True Story
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Previously a three-time Emmy Award-winning producer for Chronicle on WCVB-TV, Lisa Pierpont is the founder and editor in chief of Boldfacers.com, as well as the current editor in chief of Boston Common magazine. An expert on style, events, and people, Pierpont is also a contributing...
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Eric Jay Dolin is a bestselling author of American history and a graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his PhD in Environmental Policy. His acclaimed nonfiction work includes Fur, Fortune, and Empire, winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Award, given by the New England...
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Nathalia Holt is a science writer and New York Times bestselling author of Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV. She was trained as a fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times...
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John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, specializing in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and American philosophy. He is the author of Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism and Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition, and his...
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Daniel Korschun is a scholar, award-winning writer, and an associate professor of marketing at Drexel University, where he is also a fellow of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and the Center for Corporate Governance at the Lebow College of Business. His current research focuses...
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1:45pm EDT
Your Book as a Business
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Karen Einstein is a contributing editor of the Peeragogy Project and the vice president of Independent Publishers of New England. She has been working in the field of education for over three decades. Einstein worked for the British Council and lived in Barcelona from 1994 to 2013...
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An indie publisher and freelancer since 1989 when she started Pierce Press after moving to the Boston area from New York City, Independent Publishers of New England president Charlotte Pierce is an advocate for the collaborative economy, both inside and outside of IPNE. She is the...
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Deidre C. Randall is the Publisher CEO of Peter E. Randall, Publisher. She received a M.Ed. in business administration from Antioch New England Graduate School in 1999, following thirteen years of direct service to literacy programs; grant preparation, teaching, college instruction...
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IPNE member Eddie Vincent, co-owner of Encircle Publications LLC, has been in the publishing and graphic design field for over thirty years. His company specializes in complete book production and is home to the Aurorean poetry journal. Vincent works with publishers and independent...
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1:45pm EDT
YA: Give Me the Creeps
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Laura Koenig is the team leader for children’s services at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library. In addition to reading children’s and young adult fiction (and blogs about the same), Koenig enjoys baking, contra dancing, traveling, watching Cardinals baseball, and playing...
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Margot Harrison reviews films and books for Seven Days, a Vermont-based independent newspaper, and is also a movie critic for the film site Rotten Tomatoes. With a self-described “lifelong habit” of creeping herself out, Harrison focuses particularly on thriller and horror genres...
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Dawn Kurtagich is an author of psychologically sinister young adult novels, including The Dead House. She writes for YA Scream Queens, a blog for all things horror and thriller in young adult, and vlogs about books and writing on her YouTube channel, WritaholicDK. Her newest novel...
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Kim Savage is the author of After the Woods, an acclaimed thriller for young adults that Booklist calls a “remarkable, engrossing debut about what it means to be a survivor and the many ways to take control of your own destiny.”
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2:00pm EDT
2:00pm EDT
Stephanie James
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Stephanie James blends the soul and sass of Amy Winehouse with the storytelling of Sara Bareilles. Based in Boston, singer-songwriter Stephanie James aims to bring people together with her music. She is known for her powerful live performances as she combines her skilled vocals with...
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France, Story of a Childhood
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Maria Koundoura is chair of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. She is the author of The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities and Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture...
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The Algerian-born academic and author Zahia Rahmani is one of France’s leading art historians and writers of fiction, memoirs, and cultural criticism. She is the author of Moze, "Musulman" and France, Récit d'une enfance (France, Story of a Childhood). The French Ministry of Culture...
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2:15pm EDT
Fiction: War and Its Aftermath
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Catherine Parnell is an author, writing coach, and consultant who currently serves as the senior associate editor for the literary journal Consequence Magazine. Her reviews and short stories have appeared in publications including TSR: The Southampton Review, Post Road, Baltimore...
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Deni Ellis Béchard is a photojournalist, writer, and activist whose work focuses on human rights, politics, and the environment. His work includes the novel Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize; the memoir Cures for Hunger, an IndieNext pick; and Of Bonobos...
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Michelle Hoover is a novelist, writer, teacher, and founder and current head of the Novel Incubator program at GrubStreet. She was a 2014 NEA Fellow, Writer-In-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, winner of the PEN / New England Discovery Award, and current Fannie...
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Jonathan Rabb is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of five novels, including The Berlin Trilogy (Rosa, Shadow and Light, and The Second Son), a critically acclaimed series of historical thrillers. Rosa won the 2006 Director’s Special Prize at Spain’s Semana Negra festival...
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Kathleen Spivack is an award-winning poet, short story writer, and memoirist whose work has been published in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Paris Review, and Agni. In 1959, she came to Boston on a scholarship with Robert Lowell, an experience which resulted...
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2:15pm EDT
Reading Like a Writer: Experimentation
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Henriette Lazaridis’s work has been published in the New England Review, the New York Times online, Elle, and elsewhere. Lazaridis is the founding editor of The Drum online literary magazine. Her debut novel, The Clover House, explores issues of exile, nostalgia, belonging, and...
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Christopher Boucher is a writer, teacher, editor, and author of the acclaimed debut novel How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. After receiving his MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University, he went on to teach writing and literature at Boston College, and he currently serves...
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Alexandra Kleeman is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Guernica, Zoetrope: All-Story, and n+1. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has been awarded grants...
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Liz Moore is the author of The Words of Every Song and the acclaimed novel Heft, which was longlisted for the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in publications including Tin House, the New York Times, and Narrative Magazine...
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2:15pm EDT
Memoir Keynote: Susan Faludi Talks with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon is an author and media personality, best known as the original host of WBUR’s The Connection and creator and host of Open Source.Links:
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Memoir Keynote
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of several books, including Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Faludi's work has appeared...
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2:15pm EDT
Writing with Risk
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Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Christian Science Monitor, and many other journals...
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2:30pm EDT
Story Time with Aaron Becker
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Aaron Becker is the award-winning illustrator and author of the wordless children’s picture book trilogy the Journey. With evocative and fantastical watercolor illustrations, the Journey series follows its adventuring protagonist through Caldecott Honor winning Journey (2013), acclaimed...
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2:30pm EDT
Memoir: Character Studies
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Lisa Mullins began her career in journalism at WBUR in 1985, as host of Morning Edition. She went on to serve for more than fifteen years as anchor of PRI’s The World, during which time she interviewed such notable figures as Kofi Annan, Colin Powell, and Hamid Karzai. In 2012...
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Faith Salie is an Emmy-winning television and radio host, comedian, journalist, actor, and Rhodes scholar. She is a regular contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, and host of PBS’s Science Goes to the Movies. A commentator on...
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Jennifer Weiner is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author whose novels have spent over five years on the bestseller list, with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Her novels include Good in Bed; In Her Shoes, now a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette...
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2:30pm EDT
Nonfiction Keynote: James Gleick Talks with Tom Ashbrook
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Tom Ashbrook has been the host of WBUR’s On Point since 2001. Prior to radio work, Ashbrook spent ten years in Asia, starting his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and later becoming the foreign editor for the Boston Globe. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University...
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James Gleick is a bestselling science writer who served for ten years as a reporter and editor for the New York Times. His first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist and inspired Nature’s Chaos, a collaboration with photographer Eliot Porter...
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2:45pm EDT
One City One Story
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Editor in chief of the national magazine Inside Arts, Alicia Anstead is a reporter, editor, consultant, and educator. She teaches journalism at Harvard Extension School, supervises the Harvard Arts Beat blog, and was the inaugural Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation...
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Kelly Link is an author and editor of short stories for adults and teens. She has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award, among other honors, for her fiction. She and her husband Gavin Grant co-founded and now manage Small Beer Press, and together they also...
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2:45pm EDT
Injustice, Incarceration, Invisibility
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Callie Crossley is a broadcast journalist, media commentator, and radio and TV host at WGBH, where her latest show is Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. Crossley previously hosted and moderated on Boston Public Radio and hosted and executive produced The Callie Crossley Show, on...
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Elizabeth Hinton is an assistant professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States. Her new book...
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. Glaude has appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show, Fox TV’s Hannity & Colmes Show, CNN, and C-SPAN. Along with Dr...
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Shaka Senghor is a leading voice in criminal justice reform and the Director of Strategy for #Cut50, a national bipartisan initiative to safely and smartly reduce the prison population by 50 percent by 2025. Senghor’s 2014 TED Talk has been viewed more than 1.2 million times; TED...
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Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, a blogger at TheNation.com, and an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is also a freelance writer and social commentator who has appeared frequently on radio and television programs. His work on race, politics...
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3:00pm EDT
Neo Gcabo
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Neo Gcabo is an R&B and neo-soul vocalist from Pretoria, South Africa. She is a recent graduate of Berklee with a music business degree. Fusing traditional South African styles, Gcabo is heavily influenced by the likes of Miriam Makeba. Gcabo has toured internationally with the University...
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In My Brother's Shadow
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Sabine von Mering teaches German language and culture at Brandeis University, where she is also a member of the core faculty in women, gender, and sexuality studies. As director of the Center for German and European Studies, she organizes lectures, conferences, and cultural events...
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Uwe Timm is one of the most successful contemporary authors in Germany, having published more than twenty books. Six are available in English translation, among them The Invention of Curried Sausage (Die Entdeckung der Currywurst) and the autobiographical novel In My Brother’s Shadow...
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3:00pm EDT
My Bad Bad Dog
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Norah Dooley is a storyteller, educator, critically acclaimed children’s author, and creator of StoriesLive®, a high school storytelling curriculum and story slam program. She is the co-founder of massmouth.org and the Greater Boston Story Slam series. Dooley also wrote the picture...
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3:00pm EDT
Sports in Context
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Bill Littlefield is the host of NPR’s Only A Game and a columnist for the Boston Globe. He served as the guest editor for The Best American Sports Writing 1998, has published several other books, and most recently wrote the introduction for and edited The Top of His Game, a collection...
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S. L. Price has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1994. He is the author of several books, including Heart of the Game; Pitching Around Fidel, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Far Afield, which Esquire named one of the top five reads of...
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Onaje Woodbine currently teaches philosophy and religious studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. A former streetball player on the hard courts of Roxbury, Woodbine went on to become an all-star Ivy League player at Yale with NBA aspirations--until he quit, answering...
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3:00pm EDT
Start Making Sense: Solutions to Intractable Problems
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Shelley H. Metzenbaum is a catalyst for better government and an independent consultant. As Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management at the US Office of Management and Budget during the first term of the Obama administration, she developed and led the federal government’s...
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Philip K. Howard is the founder and chair of Common Good, a nonpartisan drive to enact legal reform and simplify government. His books includes the bestselling The Death of Common Sense, The Collapse of the Common Good, and Life Without Lawyers, and he writes for various publications...
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James M. Stone is a business leader, esteemed economic thinker, and Founder and CEO of Plymouth Rock. Holding a PhD in economics from Harvard, he has previously served as the Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner and as chairman and commissioner for the US Commodity Futures Trading...
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Zeynep Ton is an adjunct associate professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former assistant professor at Harvard Business School. She is currently focused on examining how organizations can design sustainable competitive strategy and manage operations...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
BPL Abbey
3:00pm EDT
3:15pm EDT
The Mind of an Author
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Ray Daniel is an award-winning author of Boston-based crime fiction and is the author of the Tucker Mysteries: TERMINATED, CORRUPTED MEMORY, CHILD NOT FOUND, and HACKED.
In its starred reviews of CORRUPTED MEMORY and HACKED, Publisher's weekly has described Daniel's work as "compulsively...
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Born in Detroit, where she learned a lot about crime, Linda Barnes began her writing career as a playwright. After publishing four well-received mysteries featuring Boston area actor/detective Michael Spraggue, she tried her hand at a short story, “Lucky Penny,” which was nominated...
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William Landay’s latest novel is the New York Times bestseller Defending Jacob. His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The Strangler, which was a Los Angeles Times favorite crime novel and was nominated for the Strand...
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New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of ten international espionage novels, including The Book of Spies, The Last Spymaster, and Masquerade, which Publishers Weekly lists among the top ten spy novels of all time. With Robert Ludlum, she created the Covert-One...
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William Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the popular Peter Fallon series. His book reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe and the Washington Independent Book Review. He was the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison...
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Paula Munier, a senior literary agent and content strategist at Talcott Notch Literary, has created and marketed exceptional content in all formats across all markets for such media giants as WGBH, Fidelity, and Disney. She is the author of several books, including the Amazon bestseller...
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3:15pm EDT
Reading Like a Writer: Character
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Dawn Tripp is a winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction and author of three novels set in New England: Moon Tide, The Season of Open Water, and Game of Secrets, a Boston Globe bestseller. Her essays have appeared in publications including the Virginia Quarterly Review...
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Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novel An Unexpected Guest and a Hawthorndon Fellow whose short fiction has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, the Yale Review, Consequence Magazine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. She has also written nonfiction work for the New...
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Margot Livesey is a New York Times bestselling author of short stories and eight novels, including The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, and The Flight of Gemma Hardy. The current fiction editor at Ploughshares, Livesey has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Story, American...
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Justin Tussing is a novelist, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and current director of the University of Southern Maine’s low residency MFA program in Portland. In addition to his Ken Kesy Award-winning novel The Best People in the World, Tussing has published short fiction...
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Art History Keynote: Sebastian Smee Talks with Sarah Lewis
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Sarah Lewis is a curator, teacher, critic, art historian, and author of The Rise, a celebration of creativity and success through failure. She has held curatorial positions at Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art New York, served as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s Barclays...
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Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Boston Globe whose work earned him a 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Working as an art writer and critic based in London, Smee developed a close friendship with the artist Lucian Freud and went on to write essays accompanying four books of...
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3:15pm EDT
YA: It's Complicated
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Ellie Moreton is a YA novelist and blogger. She went to college for media arts and animation, where she got her bachelors degree before she found a job in accounting (yeah, weird) and also started to seriously read and write. She still doodles and draws on random scraps of papers...
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Melissa de la Cruz is a bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages, including the #1 bestseller The Isle of the Lost, inspired by beloved Disney movies. Cruz is the author of the Blue Bloods series (with three million copies in...
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Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and Internationally bestselling author of eight books, including All the Bright Places, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, won the Goodreads 2015 Choice Award for best young fiction, and was named best book of the year by publications including...
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Rebecca Podos is a graduate of Emerson College’s MFA Writing, Literature, and Publishing program and represents young adult and middle grade fiction at Boston-based Rees Literary Agency. Her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Paper Darts, Bellow American Review, and Smokelong...
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Jordan Sonnenblick is the author of critically acclaimed novels for teens and young readers, including Notes from the Midnight Driver, Zen and the Art of Faking It, and the Doger and Me series. His first novel, Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, was published in 2005 as part of the “Go...
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3:30pm EDT
Story Time with Jef Czekaj
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Jef Czekaj writes books, draws cartoons, and also DJs. His picture books include Hip and Hop, Don't Stop!, Oink-a-Doodle-Moo, and Austin, Lost in America. Hilarity and adventure flood his comic Grampa and Julie: Shark Hunters, which ran in Nickelodeon Magazine for over ten years...
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Page and Stage: Spoken Word
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Marlon Carey is a poet (published chapbooks: Giraffe Theory, Prolegomenon, and Lazarus) who has been a member of both the Boston Poetry Slam and Boston Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam Teams. He is also a proud member of the Providence-based poetry troupe Brother’s Keeper. Carey is also...
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Regie Gibson is an author, lecturer, and literarymusician who has lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba, and Europe. As a representative of the U.S., Gibson competed for and received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy. He and his work appear in love jones, a...
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3:45pm EDT
BBF Unbound: Eating Our Words
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Lori Galvin is a literary agent with Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. Prior to joining ZSH, she was executive editor at the multimedia publisher America's Test Kitchen, where she helped lead a team that produced dozens of landmark cookbooks. Galvin was also an editor at Houghton Mifflin...
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Jennifer S. Brown writes, runs, and mothers in Arlington. She has a BFA in filmmaking from NYU and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She has published fiction and creative nonfiction in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Southeast Review, and Bellevue...
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Dawn Lerman is a nutritionist, bestselling author of My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family with Recipes, and a contributor to the New York Times Well blog. She has been featured on NBC, NPR, and HuffPost TV as well as several other news outlets. Her company Magnificent...
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Louise Miller has been a baker for over twenty years and currently lives and works in Boston as the pastry chef of The Union Club. She received a 2012 scholarship to attend GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, a yearlong workshop for novelists. Library Journal calls her debut novel...
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3:45pm EDT
Fiction: Coming of Age
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Sari Edelstein is an associate professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she teaches courses in US literature and culture. She is the author of Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing and is currently at work on a book about...
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Caroline Leavitt is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist, screenwriter, editor, critic, and teacher. She is the author of eleven novels, including Pictures of You, listed as a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, and Kirkus Reviews...
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Robin Wasserman is the author of the novel Girls on Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and several short story anthologies. A recent MacDowell Colony fellow, she is also the New York Times bestselling author of...
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3:45pm EDT
Sound Advice: Storytelling for Audio
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Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of Lore, a critically acclaimed podcast about true scary stories from history that won the Best of iTunes award in 2015. The podcast is now in development for television with Propagate Content and Valhalla Entertainment, the producer...
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4:00pm EDT
luhx.
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Formed in Boston, luhx. pairs their undeniable groove with melancholy lyrics to create haunting tunes. The voices of luhx. are strikingly unique guaranteeing each song leaves you hungry for the next. Their passion for soul comes from listening to artists like Jack Garratt, Allen Stone...
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Having Presence and Being Present
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Robin Young brings more than twenty-five years of broadcast experience to her role as co-host of Here & Now, a WBUR-produced daily news magazine that airs on NPR stations nationwide. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television...
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Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist and Harvard Business School professor specializing in power and influence, leadership, and decision-making. Her 2012 TED Talk “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” is the second-most viewed in TED history and was dubbed one of the “Twenty...
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Sherry Turkle is a media scholar, psychologist, and social researcher who has studied digital culture for over thirty years. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and is also the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative...
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4:00pm EDT
Politics: Is This Any Way to Elect a President?
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Anthony Brooks is WBUR’s senior political reporter. Previously, Brooks was co-host of Radio Boston, WBUR’s local news and talk show. For many years, Brooks worked as a Boston-based reporter for NPR, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, the economy...
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McKay Coppins is a senior writer for the BuzzFeed News politics team. In 2012, he was named one of Forbes’s “30 Under 30” media pundits and one of Politico’s ten “breakout reporters.” Prior to joining BuzzFeed to cover the 2012 presidential campaign, Coppins wrote for...
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Ellen Fitzpatrick is a scholar of modern American intellectual and political history and a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Her work includes Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation, a New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a documentary...
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Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, specializing in the relationship between historical dynamics and contemporary policy decisions. He is the author of several works...
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Joy-Ann Reid is an author, journalist, and political commentator. Now a national correspondent for MSNBC, she was previously host of The Reid Report, a daily program analyzing the day’s news, as well as managing editor of theGrio.com, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted...
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4:00pm EDT
Boston: Le nez en l’air
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Mathilde Piton moved from Paris to Boston in January 2012 and started to tell stories on a blog, Le blog de Mathilde, about her new life in the USA. A few months later, Michelin contacted her to work on their travel guide Boston et la Nouvelle-Angleterre. As her blog grew bigger...
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4:15pm EDT
The Book Revue
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Henriette Lazaridis’s work has been published in the New England Review, the New York Times online, Elle, and elsewhere. Lazaridis is the founding editor of The Drum online literary magazine. Her debut novel, The Clover House, explores issues of exile, nostalgia, belonging, and...
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Jennah Bell is an Oakland-grown singer/songwriter who pulls from a colorful palette of folk, soul, R&B, hip‐hop, and bluegrass. In 2005, while still in high school, Bell auditioned for a summer program hosted by the Grammy Foundation, where Jimmy Jam, Paul Williams, and David Foster...
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Ann Hood is a bestselling author of nonfiction, novels, and short stories including The Knitting Circle, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, The Red Thread, and An Italian Wife. She served as editor for the collection Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, and her writing has appeared...
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Ben Mezrich has authored seventeen books of fiction and nonfiction, with a combined printing of over four million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on...
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Richard Russo is a novelist, screenwriter, memoirist, and recipient of a 1990 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. He is the author of seven novels and two collections of short stories, including Empire Falls, which earned the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which he adapted into...
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Faith Salie is an Emmy-winning television and radio host, comedian, journalist, actor, and Rhodes scholar. She is a regular contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, and host of PBS’s Science Goes to the Movies. A commentator on...
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5:30pm EDT
Poems and Pints
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Sara Siegel is a lifelong writer and crafter based in Somerville. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis and working at women's health organizations in New York City, she moved to Burlington, Vermont, to earn a master’s degree in public administration at UVM. While...
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Liam Day has been a youth worker, teacher, coach, school administrator, public health professional, political campaign manager, and professional basketball player. His poems have appeared in Slow Trains, Apt, and Wilderness House Literary Review. His essays and op-eds have appeared...
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Jeffrey Harrison is the author of five books of poetry, including The Singing Underneath, a National Poetry Series selection; Feeding the Fire, winner of the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; Incomplete Knowledge, runner-up for the Poets’ Prize in 2008; and...
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Jennifer Markell’s first poetry collection, Samsara, was named a “Must Read Book of Poetry” by the Massachusetts Book Awards and a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Markell won the Barbara Bradley award in 2016 for her poem “Blue Johnnies” from the New England...
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Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, and human rights activist whose poetry has been published in four volumes: Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon, By Vineyard Light, and, most recently, Fierce Day. At the forefront of the field of international human rights, she has served on the...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
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6:00pm EDT
Lore
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Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of Lore, a critically acclaimed podcast about true scary stories from history that won the Best of iTunes award in 2015. The podcast is now in development for television with Propagate Content and Valhalla Entertainment, the producer...
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Saturday October 15, 2016 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Storyville