SATURDAY OCT 27, 2012 FREE

Nonction

Fiction

Kids

Young Adult

Participatory / Seminars

Poetry BOSTON COMMON HANCOCK

TRINITY SANCTUARY

OLD SOUTH SANCTUARY

COVENANT

BPL RABB

BPL ABBEY

10
AM

11
AM

The Short Story 11:00 12:00

Kids Keynote: Lemony Snicket 11:00 12:00

Memoir: Parents and Children 11:00 12:00

Whats Next for Women? 11:15 12:15

The Hobbit: There and Back Again 11:00 12:00

True Crime: The Whitey Bulger Story 11:00 12:00

12
PM

1
PM

Serious Satire 12:45 1:45

The Economy: Advice for the Winner 12:45 2:00

Fiction: Heaven Knows 12:45 1:45

An Ocean Apart: Paris and NYC 1:00 2:00

One City One Story 12:45 1:45

Great Brits and Books 12:30 1:30

2
PM

3
PM

The Brain: Thinking About Thinking 2:30 3:30

Graphic Novels 2:30 3:30

Alexander McCall Smith 2:30 3:30

Triumph of the City 2:30 3:30

Why Picture Books Matter 2:15 3:15

Young Adult: Overcoming Adversity 2:00 3:00

4
PM

Political Culture 4:15 5:30

Fiction: Time and Place 4:15 5:15

Young Adult: The Future is Now 4:15 5:15

Future of Reading 4:15 5:30

Jewish Jocks 4:00 5:00

Self-Publishing with Blurb 3:30 4:30

5
PM

6
PM

Books Actually An Audio Adventure at the Boston Book Festival

Keynote: Richard Ford 6:00 7:00
An all-day audio ash-ction project created by some of Boston's most exciting writers for The Drum Literary Magazine and the BBF. Use your smartphone to play one of ten stories, read aloud by their authors, and follow a range of characters.

7
PM

SATURDAY OCT 27, 2012 FREE

Nonction BOSTON COMMON CARVER

Fiction

Kids

Young Adult

Participatory / Seminars

Poetry

TRINITY FORUM

OLD SOUTH MARY NORTON

BPL COMMONWEALTH

BPL MCKIM LOWER LEVEL

BPL POPULAR READING ROOM

10
AM

Writer Idol 10:15 11:45

11
AM

All About You: Writing Memoir 10:45 11:45 Readings in the Forum: Two Debuts and a Forgery 11:30 12:30 Writing the War 11:30 12:30

StoryPlace 11:00 4:00

11:00 Bailey at the Museum author Harry Bliss reads stories 11:45 Appearance by Max the Bunny 12:30 Llama Llama author Anna Dewdney reads stories 1:15 Appearance by Llama Llama

12
PM

1
PM

Self-Publishing with Blurb 12:15 1:15

Stories on Stage 12:15 1:15

A Conversation about the Iliad 1:00 2:00 Black Culture: Music and More 1:45 2:45 Readings in the Forum: Uncanny Imagination 2:30 3:30 How to Write a Crime Novel 3:15 4:15 Readings in the Forum: Families 4:00 5:00 Secrets of the Advice Columnists 4:45 5:45

True Story: Personal Visions 1:00 2:00

2
PM

Flash Fiction 2:00 3:15 Edith Wharton: Real and Imagined 2:30 3:30

Whodunit? Mysteries for Middle-Graders 2:00 3:00

2:00 Appearance by Frog and Toad 2:45 Yes, Yes, Yaul! author Jef Czekaj reads stories 3:30 Appearance by Curious George

3
PM

4
PM

Page and Stage: Teen Spoken Word 3:45 5:15

Read a Mystery, Solve a Mystery 3:15 4:15 Books Behind Bars 4:00 5:00

5
PM

Poems and Pints

5:00 6:30 at Cuffs (in the Back Bay Hotel)
with Nick Flynn, X.J. Kennedy, Joan Houlihan, Aidan Rooney, and Daniel Tobin

6
PM

7
PM