BBF 2012 Keynote: Richard Ford Purchase Tickets for BBF 2012 Keynote: Richard Ford Boston Book Festival 2012 Home Download a printable PDF of the 2012 Schedule Alexander McCall Smith BBF Unbound: Books Behind Bars BBF Unbound: Writing the War Black Culture: Music & More The Brain: Thinking About Thinking A Conversation About the Iliad The Economy: Advice for the Winner Edith Wharton: Real and Imagined Fiction: Heaven Knows Fiction: The Short Story Fiction: Time and Place Future of Reading StoryPlace at the BBF 2012 Poems and Pints Books, Actually at the BBF 2012 Graphic Novels: Drawing the Story Great Brits and Books The Hobbit: There and Back Again Jewish Jocks Kids' Keynote: Lemony Snicket Memoir: Parents and Children An Ocean Apart: Paris and New York One City One Story Political Culture Read a Mystery, Solve a Mystery Readings in the Forum: Families Readings in the Forum: Two Debuts and a Forgery Readings in the Forum: Uncanny Imagination Serious Satire Stories on Stage True Crime: The Whitey Bulger Story Triumph of the City True Story: Personal Visions What's Next for Women Whodunit? Mysteries for Middle Graders Why Picture Books Matter Writer Idol Young Adult: Overcoming Adversity Young Adult: The Future is Now All About You: Writing Memoir Tickets for All About You: Writing Memoir How to Write a Crime Novel Purchase Tickets for How to Write a Crime Novel Secrets of the Advice Columnists Purchase Tickets for Secrets of the Advice Columnists Self-Publishing with Blurb Self-Publishing with Blurb Purchase Tickets for Self-Publishing with Blurb Flash Fiction Page and Stage: Teen Spoken Word