Maplewood—South Orange Book Festival

Event Date: June 9th, 2017 at 12:00am
Address : 1 SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA
Town : South Orange
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The Maplewood—South Orange Book Festival is happy to announce its schedule of events. All events are free of charge, and will be held on Saturday, June 10th at the Woodland and at the Burgdorff Center in Maplewood, from 10AM-5PM. We have over 80 authors, including 23 in the children's area, on 20 panels and "in conversations." Caldecott Medal winner Javaka Steptoe will be our closing children's speaker, at 4:00PM. [words] is the official bookseller for the event. Tickets are still available for our Mary Roach opening event and party on Friday, June 9th at SOPAC. Below are the list of events on Saturday, June 10th. The full descriptions are available by clicking here. 10:00 Nurturing the Writer in Your Child or Teenager Judith Lindbergh, Richard Falco, Christina Kapp, Stacy Lawrence, Lisa Romeo The Poetry of Hope and Social Action Tina Kelley Theresa Burns, Michael Lally, Danny Shot and B.J. Ward 11:00 The Future of Juvenile Justice in America Jean Trounstine, Caroline Leavitt, Rebecca Livingood, Karter Reed Jane Austen: Then and Now Kathleen Flynn, Karen Gevirtz Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give Ada Calhoun in conversation with Karen Abbott 12:00 Christina Baker Kline, in conversation with Marina Budhos Behind the Image: Women on Graphic Novels and Cartoons Kristen Radtke, Lauren Weinstein Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation Jacqueline Mroz in conversation with DT Max 1:00 Getting Back In Wendy Sachs History Comes Alive: The Magic World of Gustav Klimt and Turn of the Century Vienna Laurie Lico Albanese, in conversation with Laura Morowitz Real Issues in Young Adult Literature Sona Charaipotra, Lisa Colozza Cocca, Melanie Conklin, Barry Lyga, Kimberly McCreight 2:00 Gentrification, Race, and the Future of the Urban Community Mindy Fulilove, Peter Moskowitz, DW Gibson, Diego Ribadeneira Uniquely Female Julie Buntin, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Marcy Dermansky, Julia Fierro, Michele Filgate The Immigrant Experience in Young Adult Fiction Maria E. Andreu, Marina Budhos and Sheba Karim 3:00 “A Hemisphere of Hope?” The Newark Example, and the Future of Education Reform Dale Russakoff and Jon Schuppe Writing about Transgender Issues Benjamin Davis, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Laura A. Jacobs Powerful Women Fight Power: Female Novelists on Gender, Power and Activism Jean Hanff Korelitz and Yoojin Grace Wuertz, in conversation with Helen Wan 4:00 Hit Makers and Super Fans Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Derek Thompson, in conversation with Ron Hogan Think Local, Write Local: The SOMA Influence Eliza Minot, Claudia Zuluaga Motherhood in fiction: The Joys and Sorrows Pamela Erens and Lauren Grodstein, in conversation with Elizabeth Trundle Friday, June 9th will be the keynote event and opening night party (with open bar) at SOPAC, featuring best-selling popular science author Mary Roach, in conversation with Budd Mishkin. Among the authors who you can mingle with at the party are Christina Baker Kline, Marcy Dermansky, Jean Korelitz, Jay Cooper, Eric Morse, Helen Wan, Pamela Erens, Yoojin Grace Wuertz, Mindy Fullilove, Laura Lico Albanese, Wendy Mass, Melanie Conklin and Barry Lyga.

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