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Saturday, November 16th – Festival Friends Sessions

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Powerful and Personal: Narrative Nonfiction about Life & Death in Mexico
Authors: Angela Garcia & Cristina Rivera Garza
Books: The Way That Leads Among the Lost & Liliana’s Invincible Summer
Location: State Theatre

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Inheritance & Identity: Unraveling the Past to Shape the Future
Authors: Rachel Khong & Téa Obreht
Books: Real Americans & The Morningside
Moderated by: Deb Olin Unferth
Location: Central Presbyterian Church

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Frenemies to Lovers: A Rom-Com Twist
Authors: Hannah Brown & Katherine Center
Books: Mistakes We Never Made & The Rom-Commers
Moderated by: Kat Cotroneo
Location: First United Methodist Church

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Literary Legends on Writing Fiction Inspired by Personal Narratives
Authors: Claire Messud & Jane Smiley
Books: This Strange Eventful History & Lucky
Moderated by: Laurie Muchnick
Location: Central Presbyterian Church

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Rumaan Alam in Conversation about Entitlement
Moderated by: Elizabeth McCracken
Location: State Theatre

Sunday, November 17th – Festival Friends Sessions

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Attica Locke in Conversation about Guide Me Home
Moderated by: Elizabeth Crook
Location: State Theatre

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM
What Makes a Monster?
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Book: I Was a Teenage Slasher
Moderated by: Noah Hawley
Location: State Theatre

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Michele Norris in Discussion about Our Hidden Conversations
Moderated by: Peniel Joseph
Location: State Theatre

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Hanif Abdurraqib in Conversation about There’s Always This Year
Moderated by: Miwa Messer
Location: State Theatre