| 9:00 - 9:30 AM ET| Exhibition Hall opens 9:30 - 10:10 AM ET|Nonfiction: Poetry Is a Force Perspectives on poetry and life. Ada Calhoun, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, Grove Press: Grove Atlantic Ross Gay, Inciting Joy, Algonquin Books: Workman Publishing: Hachette Book Group Robert Pinsky, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Moderator: Barbara Hoffert, Editor, Prepub Alert, LJ 9:30 - 10:10 AM ET|Memoir: Seeking Refuge The realities of coming to North America. Edafe Okporo, Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster Jamal Saeed, My Road from Damascus, ECW Press Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir, Hogarth: Penguin Random House Moderator: Barrie Olmstead, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
10:15 - 10:55 AM ET| Fiction: Romance A little love for everyone. Sarah M. Eden, The Bachelor and the Bride, Shadow Mountain Publishing Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, Merry Little Meet-Cute, Avon: HarperCollins Erica Ridley, Nobody’s Princess, Forever Books: Hachette Book Group Toni Shiloh, In Search of a Prince, Bethany House: Baker Publishing Group A.S. Thornton, Son of the Salt Chaser, CamCat Books Moderator: Eve Stano, Ball State University Libraries, IN 10:15 - 10:55 AM ET|Nonfiction: Memoir Significant lives revisited. Phyllis Biffle Elmore, Quilt of Souls: A Memoir, Imagine: Charlesbridge Bobbie Scopa, Both Sides of the Fireline: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter, Chicago Review Press: IPG Bill McKibben, The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, Henry Holt: Macmillan Jess Ruliffson, Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism, Fantagraphics Books Moderator: Liz French, Senior Editor, LJ Book Reviews 11:00 - 11:55 AM ET|Nonfiction: Black American History The ongoing legacy of enslavement. Margaret Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Kerri K. Greenidge, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, Liveright: W. W. Norton & Company Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Basic Books: Hachette Book Group Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Macmillan Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Viking: Penguin Random House Moderator: Leah Huey, Dekalb, P.L., IL 11:00 - 11:55 AM ET|Fiction: Community Veteran and debut authors on connection. Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point, Marysue Rucci Books: Scribner: S. & S. Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things, Grand Central Publishing: Hachette Book Group Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, MCD: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Macmillan Angela Jackson-Brown, The Light Always Breaks, Harper Muse: HarperCollins Focus Rasheed Newson, My Government Means To Kill Me, Flatiron: Macmillan Moderator: Lillian Dabney, The Seattle Athenaeum 11:55 AM - 12:30 PM ET| BREAK/Visit the Exhibit Hall 12:30 - 1:25 PM ET| Fiction: Social Justice Perspectives Fiction that illuminates today’s crucial issues. John Manuel Arias, Where There Was Fire, Flatiron: Macmillan Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light, One World: Penguin Random House Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance, Algonquin Books: Workman Publishing: Hachette Book Group Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man, Riverhead Books: Penguin Random House Zain Khalid, Brother Alive, Grove Press: Grove Atlantic Moderator: Luke Gorham, Galesburg P.L., IL 12:30 - 1:25 PM ET|Fiction: The Dystopian View Different genres, one dystopian perspective. C.J. Carey, Widowland, Sourcebooks Landmark: Sourcebooks Silas House, Lark Ascending, Algonquin Books: Workman Publishing: Hachette Book Group Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly, Amistad: HarperCollins Veronica Roth, Poster Girl, William Morrow: HarperCollins Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao, W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Moderator: Marlene Harris, Reading Reality, Atlanta 1:30 - 2:25 PM ET| Fiction: Literary Life Lessons Award-winning novelists turn in exciting new work. Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, Atria Books: Simon & Schuster Ian McEwan, Lessons, Alfred A. Knopf: Penguin Random House Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents, Hogarth: Penguin Random House Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona, Penguin Press: Penguin Random House Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch, Alfred A. Knopf: Penguin Random House Moderator: Lisa Peet, SeniorEditor, News, Library Journal 1:30 - 2:25 PM ET|Fiction: Family Untangling the ties that bind. Sopan Deb, Keya Das’s Second Act, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster Ella King, Bad Fruit, Astra House Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book, Ecco: HarperCollins Namwali Serpell, The Furrows, Hogarth: Penguin Random House Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time To Panic, Ecco: HarperCollins Moderators: Marianne Paterniti, Book Group Coordinator Pat Sheary, Head of Adult Programming, Darien Library, CT 2:30 - 3:00 PM| BREAK/Visit the Exhibit Hall 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET|Fiction: Thrillers Edgy new thrillers that take readers far. Julie Clark, The Lies I Tell, Sourcebooks Landmark: Sourcebooks Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon, Blackstone Publishing John Keyse-Walker, Havana Highwire, Severn House Amy Rivers, Stumble and Fall, Indie Author Project Dani Pettrey, The Deadly Shallows, Bethany House: Baker Publishing Group Moderator: Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., IL 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET|Nonfiction: Where We Are Today Investigating a rapidly changing world. Steve Brodner, Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020–2021, Fantagraphics Books Steve Lopez, Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will, Harper Horizon: HarperCollins Focus Beth Macy, Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, Little, Brown and Company: Hachette Book Group Lecia Michelle, The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks To Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women, Dafina: Kensington Publishing Corporation Steven W. Thrasher, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Celadon: Macmillan Moderator: Mattie Cook, Flat River Community Lib., MI 4:05 - 5:00 PM ET|Nonfiction: Beautiful World The glories and endangerment of our natural world. Julian Aguon, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay, Astra House Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Drawn & Quarterly Todd Myers, Time To Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet’s Biggest Problems, Imagine: Charlesbridge Lenore Newman & Evan Fraser, Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth, ECW Press Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Random House: Penguin Random House Moderator: Matt Enis, Senior Editor, Technology, LJ 4:05 - 5:00 PM ET|Fiction: Historical Perspectives Ranging through time with five distinctive novelists. Bruce Ferber, I Buried Paul, The Story Plant Teresa Messineo, What We May Become, Severn House Heather B. Moore, In the Shadow of a Queen, Shadow Mountain Publishing Rudy Ruiz, Valley of Shadows, Blackstone Publishing Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Kensington: Kensington Publishing Corporation Moderator: Julie Kane, Washington & Lee Lib., Lexington, VA | 