We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming.

Please take note of these updates to the MBF25 weekend lineup

The Following Authors & Guests Are No Longer Appearing At The Fair:
  • Elliot Ackerman
  • Esther Bendahan
  • Karen E. Bender
  • Larry Charles
  • Dan Chaon
  • Chris Davenport
  • Kate Fagan
  • Shana Feste
  • Kate Folk
  • Karen Guggenheim
  • Barbara Hamby
  • Adam Haslett
  • Tom Hudson
  • Sarah Kendzior
  • Roxane Ledan
  • Kate Marvel
  • Evelyn McDonnell
  • Bernice L. McFadden
  • Cleyvis Natera
  • Ande Pliego
  • Gretchen Rubin
  • Mia Sosa
  • Peter Wolf
  • Jose Zamora

SATURDAY – 10 a.m. in the Auditorium
Gabrielle Calvocoressi will join Naomi Shihab Nye and Tracy K. Smith as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 11 a.m. in Room 2106
Britney S. Lewis will join Jaysea Lynn, Melissa K. Roehrich, and Ariel Sullivan as their moderator. 

SATURDAY – 11 a.m. in Room 3209 Matt Haggman will join Marc J. Dunkelman and Chris Hughes as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 11 a.m. in Room 8201
Ellen Book will join Larry Baker and Robert Olen Butler as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 12 p.m. in the Art Lab David Hildenbrand will join Kwame Mbalia, Shannon Messenger, and Scott Reintgen as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 12 p.m. in Room 3209
Jami Attenberg will join Maris Kreizman as her moderator.

SATURDAY – 12 p.m. in Chapman Joseph M. Goldstein will join Jeffrey Rosen as his moderator.

SATURDAY – 12 p.m. in Room 6100
Toby Lloyd will join Lacey N. Dunham and Daniel G. Miller.

SATURDAY – 12:30 p.m. at Freedom Tower
Alberto Ibargüen will join Alberto Müller as his moderator.

SATURDAY – 1 p.m. in Room 3209
Paola Parreno will join Tessa Bailey, Sara Cate, Alexis Daria, and Susan Lee as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 1 p.m. in Room 6100
Esther Chehebar will join Lisa F. Rosenberg and Margie Zable Fisher as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 1:30 p.m. in Room 2106
The Larry Charles program is canceled.

SATURDAY – 2:30 p.m. in Room 6100
Kate Woodworth will join Ivonne Lamazares, Megha Majumdar, and Emma Pattee; she is no longer appearing Saturday at 12 p.m. in Room 8106.

SATURDAY – 2:30 p.m. in Room 8303
Connie Mae Oliver will join Stine An and Lupita Eyde-Tucker as she is no longer appearing Saturday at 4:30 in Room 8303; Mia Leonin will join this program as its moderator.

SATURDAY – 3 p.m. in the Art Lab
Natalie Stuart will join Donna Barba Higuera, Kon Tan, and Amy Timberlake as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 3:30 p.m. in Room 3209
Tameka Hobbs will join Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Ph.D., and Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black, Ph.D., as their moderator. 

SATURDAY – 3:30 p.m. in Room 8303
Jen Karetnick will join Taylor Byas and Carlie Hoffman as their moderator.

SATURDAY – 4 p.m. in Room 7128
The Meenakshi Ahamed, George Packer, and Todd S. Purdum program has moved to this new day, time, and venue; they were originally scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. in Room 2106.

SATURDAY – 4 p.m. in Room 7128
The Gretchen Rubin/Karen Guggenheim program is canceled.

SATURDAY – 4:30 p.m. in Room 8303
Connie Mae Oliver will not join the “Lineage, Language & Landscape: Poetry Debuts” program.

SATURDAY – 5 p.m. in the Art Lab Flo Simmons will join Claire Ahn, Ebony Ladelle, Kwame Mbalia, and Ali Novak as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 11 a.m. in Room 3210
Elana Broitman will join Alexander Vindman and Mikhail Zygar as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 12 p.m. in the Auditorium
Shaunterria Owens will join Nicholas Boggs and Susana Morris as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 12 p.m. in the Art Lab
Celeste Giglio will join Vanessa Montalban, Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, Trang Thanh Tran, and Jihyun Yun as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 12 p.m. in Room 8106
Charles Kochman will join Melissa Chan and Badiucao as their moderator.

DOMINGO – 12 p.m. en Salón 8201
Esmeralda Santiago moderará la presentación de Gabi Martínez.

SUNDAY – 12:30 p.m. in Room 6100
David Lerner Schwartz will join Brandon Hobson and Adam Ross as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 1 p.m. in the Art Lab Daniel Jones will join Kate Messner and Sherri L. Smith as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 1 p.m. in Room 7128
Marion Winik will join Mark Kurlansky as his moderator.

SUNDAY – 2 p.m. in the Art Lab
Dr. Precious Symonette, Ed.D., will join Mária Dolores Águila, Hannah V. Sawyerr, and Ibi Zoboi as their moderator. 

SUNDAY – 2 p.m. in Room 3209
Marlon James will join Dennard Dayle, Nathan Harris, and Rickey Fayne as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 2 p.m. in Room 7128 Fernand Amandi will join Sam Tanenhaus as his moderator.

SUNDAY – 2 p.m. in Room 8202
Jordanaé Smith will join J. Elle, Nadine Gonzalez, Ebony LaDelle, and Britney S. Lewis as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 2:30 p.m. in Chapman
Russell Motley will join Jonathan Capehart as his moderator. 

SUNDAY – 2:30 p.m. in Room 8201
Georgina Godwin will join Rich Benjamin, Peter Godwin, and Elena Sheppard as their moderator. 

SUNDAY – 3 p.m. in Room 2106
The Meenakshi Ahamed, George Packer, and Todd S. Purdum program has moved from this day, time, and venue to Saturday, November 22, at 4 p.m. in Room 7128.

SUNDAY – 3:30 p.m. in Chapman
Maris Kreizman will join Jill Bialosky and Molly Jong-Fast as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 4 p.m. in the Art Lab
Aurora Dominguez will join Kalynn Bayron, J. Elle, Romina Garber, and Britney S. Lewis as their moderator.

SUNDAY – 5 p.m. in Chapman
Jelani Cobb will join Abby Phillip as her moderator.

SUNDAY – 6 p.m. in Chapman
The Peter Wolf/Evelyn McDonnell program is canceled.