2022 SESSIONS

Archival audio recordings are available for the following sessions from BBF 2022:

(Note: clicking the title of a session will play the audio file in a new window. To download the file to your hard drive, right-click (PC) or ctrl-click (Mac) and select “Download linked file” from the menu that appears.)

Nonfiction

Are We Strangers Here?: Wajahat Ali, Dart Adams, David Ambroz, Rabia Chaudry

Can’t Get It Out of Your Head: What Makes a Hit Tune: Susan Rogers, Host: Ogi Ogas

Craft: The Joy of Handmade Art and Industry: Grant McCracken, Ezra Shales, Host: Edgar B. Herwick III

Ekua Holmes: The Art of the Picture Book: Ekua Holmes, Host: Cathie Mercier

From Baghdad to Jerusalem: Joseph Sassoon, Matthew Teller, Host: Amy Singer

Globe Critics presents Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Book Reviews!: Anri Wheeler, Joshunda Sanders, Sebastian Stockman, Host: Kate Tuttle

Goethe Institut presents Writing a Novel in a Language You Barely Speak: Tomer Gardi, Host: Daniel Bowles

Histories of Freedom: A Past Not Past: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Kerri K. Greenidge, Lydia Moland, Host: Holly Jackson

How to Live: Purpose, Joy and a Dash of Philosophy: Ross Gay, Kieran Setiya, Ellen Warner, Host: Robert Waldinger

Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism: Katherine Stewart, Host: Raney Aronson-Rath

Kickoff Keynote: Patrick Radden Keefe: Patrick Radden Keefe, Host: Meghna Chakrabarti

Local Author Nonfiction Readings: William R. Cross, Liz Hauck, Janet Pocorobba, Stephanie Schorow, Donald Yacovone, Host: Darryl C. Murphy

MAAH Stone Book Awards presents The Sound Writing Renaissance: A Black Feminist History of Music Criticism: Daphne A. Brooks, Ann Powers

Making Change: Ruha Benjamin, Erica Chenoweth, John Della Volpe, Host: Jeremy Siegel

Maus: Thoughts on a Banned Book: Hillary Chute, Host: Thomas Doherty

Memoir: Bold, Bright, and Badass Women: Alison Mariella Désir, Lisa D. Foster, Natasha Lance Rogoff, Host: Tiziana Dearing

Moshe Safdie: A Life in Architecture: Moshe Safdie, Host: Anda French

Nonfiction Keynote: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Host: Jessica Stern

On the Front Lines of the Pandemic: Dr. Deborah Birx: Dr. Deborah Birx. Host: David Leonard

Pandemic Stories: Hope in the Darkness: Dao X. Tran, Carlin Carr, Host: Veronica Chao

True Story: Prodigies, Poets, and Perseverance: Claudia Kalb, Robert Pinsky, Host: James Bennett II

Fiction

Comics: Duty, Determination, and Daring: Sara Alfageeh, Robyn Smith, Host: Brigid Alverson

Comics: Transformation and Triumph: A Dark Night of the Soul: Corinne Halbert, Tina Lugo, Host: Briana Martino

Fiction: Secrets, Shapeshifting, and Time: Steve Almond, Jabari Asim, Lucy Ives, Host: Whitney Scharer

Fiction: The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Ceremony: Host: Paul Tremblay

Fiction: The Past as Prologue: Andrea Yaryura Clark, Ousmane K. Power-Greene, Dariel Suarez, Host: Jane De León Griffin

Fiction: The Territory of Women: Rachel Barenbaum, Laird Hunt, Ladette Randolph, Host: Dawn Tripp

Fiction: Twisting the Traditional: Katalina Gamarra, Andrea Hairston, Kit Mayquist, Host: Jessica Keener

Fiction: Who Owns the American Dream?: Jennifer Haigh, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Alyssa Songsiridej, Host: Henriette Lazaridis

Local Author Fiction Readings: Rita Zoey Chin, Donna Gordon, Chandreyee Lahiri, Host: Christine Mastrangelo

Mystery: Shades of Truth: Ben Mezrich, Jane Pek, B.A. Shapiro, Host: Sara DiVello

Romance: Historical Romance, Contemporary Values: Caroline Linden, Alexandra Rowland, Host: Andrea Martucci

Romance: Serendipity in the Unexpected: Lily Chu, Mia P. Manansala, Kate Spencer, Host: Callie Crossley

Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Searching for Identity in Fantastic Worlds: Tochi Onyebuchi, Rory Power, Host: Rebecca Kim Wells

Poetry

Poetry Headline Reading: Michael Ansara, Andrea Cohen, Host: Danielle Jones

Poetry Headline Reading: Quintin Collins, torrin a. greathouse, Host: M.P. Carver

Poetry Reading: 2021 Mass Book Award Winners: Peter Gizzi, Gail Mazur, Enzo Silon Surin, Host: Karolina Zapal

The Future Is Now: Motherhood and the Body in a Post-Roe World: Joan Naviyuk Kane, Jennifer Militello, Anna V. Q. Ross, Host: Danielle Jones

Tree Lines: A Celebration of Ecopoetics: Charles Coe, Martha Collins, Erica Funkhouser, Deborah Leipziger, Host: Jennifer Barber

BBF Unbound

Does Free Speech Have a Future? A Conversation: Christopher Finan, Randall Kennedy

Return of the Freedom Writers: Mathematics, Stephen Crivellaro, Zachary Paul, Host: Cheryl Buchanan

YA

Bold of You to Assume: Alexene Farol Follmuth, Lucy Keating, Crystal Maldonado, Host: Sally Bremer

Lighting the Way: YA Keynote with Malinda Lo: Malinda Lo, Host: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Love and Destruction: Sacha Lamb, Tucker Shaw, Ashley Woodfolk, Host: Piera Varela

Power to Make You, Power to Break You: Kristin Cashore, Elizabeth Lim, Host: Rory Power

Reckonings Come Due: Justina Ireland, Tiffany D. Jackson, Host: Ben Books Schwartz

Secrets and Revelations: Kayla Cottingham, Sara Farizan, Kendall Kulper, Host: Katherine Nazzaro

Kids

Kids Keynote: Faces of Fantasy: Tui T. Sutherland, B. B. Alston, Host: Meredith Goldstein

Massachusetts Children’s Book Award: Peter Brown, Host: Megan Murphy