Master Schedule
The 2024 GBF Master Schedule: digital and searchable
May 18, 2024
| Start | End | Program | Genre | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Lisa Perrin | Non-fic - True Crime | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Perrin, in conversation with Art Taylor, will present her book, "The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Sarah Adler, Andie Burke | Fiction - Romance | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Adler will present "Happy Medium." Burke will present "Fly with Me." Moderated by Kristina Wright. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Harold Holzer | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Holzer, in conversation with David O. Stewart, will present "Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Sgt. Aquilino Gonell | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Gonell, in conversation with State Senator Cheryl Kagan, will present "American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Barbara J. Taylor, Simon Van Booy | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Taylor will present "Rain Breaks No Bones." Van Booy will present "Sipsworth." Moderated by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Bernardine (Dine) Watson | Non-Fic | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Watson, in conversation with Laura Fisher Kaiser, will present her book, "Transplant: A Memoir." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Jessica Cuello, Michael Gushue, Kim Roberts | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Poetry Inspired by Other Arts. Cuello will present "Yours, Creature." Gushue will present "Sympathy for the Monster." Roberts will present "Corona/Crown." Moderated by Courtney LeBlanc. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Beth Ferry, Carole Lindstrom | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Lindstrom will present "Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior." Ferry will present "Solar Bear." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Rajani LaRocca, Tim Probert | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Probert will present "Lightfall: The Dark Times." LaRocca will present "Sona and the Golden Beasts." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Nicole Melleby, John Schu | Children's - Middle-grade | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Melleby will present "Winnie Nash is Not Your Sunshine." Schu will present "Louder Than Hunger." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Tara Laskowski, Lauren Thoman | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Laskowski will present "The Weekend Retreat." Thoman will present "I'll Stop the World." Moderated by Keith Donohue. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Michelle Brafman, Adrienne Brodeur | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Brafman will present "Swimming with Ghosts." Brodeur will present "Little Monsters." Moderated by Caroline Bock. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Fergus M. Bordewich | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Bordewich, in conversation with Paula Tarnapol Whitacre, will present "Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | A.J. Jacobs | Non-fic - Humor | James Michener Pavilion | Jacobs, in conversation with Holly Smith, will present his humorous memoir, "The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Adelle Waldman | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Waldman, in conversation with Maryland Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman, will present "Help Wanted." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Matt Wasowski | Non-Fic - Science | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Balakrishnan and Wasowski will present "How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Joseph Ross, Jennifer Sutherland | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | "Trauma & Poetry Panel" Bratt-Pfotenhauer will present "Bad Animal." Ross will present "Crushed & Crowned." Sutherland will present "Bullet Points: A Lyric." Moderated by Fran Abrams. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Cece Bell, David LaRochelle | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Bell will present "Animal Albums from A to Z." LaRochelle will present "Go and Get With Rex." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Derrick Barnes, Phil Bildner, Fred Bowen | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Barnes will present "Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories!" Bildner will present "Glenn Burke, Game Changer." Bowen will present "Extra Innings." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Katherine Marsh, Alysa Wishingrad | Children's - Middle-grade | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Marsh will present "Medusa: The Myth of Monsters." Wishingrad will present "Between Monsters and Marvels." Moderated by Alison Morris and Illustrated by Gareth Hinds. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Jeff Hoffmann, Vera Kurian, Sara Shepard | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Hoffmann will present "Like It Never Happened." Kurian will present "A Step Past Darkness." Shepard will present "Nowhere Like Home." Moderated by E.A. Aymar. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Sara Goodman Confino, Sophie Wan | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Confino will present "Don't Forget to Write." Wan will present "Women of Good Fortune." Moderated by Melanie S. Hatter. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Anne L. Foster | Non-Fic | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Foster, in conversation with David Aldridge and Torie Clarke from the Chatter on Books podcast, will present "The Long War on Drugs." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Susan Page | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Page, in conversation with Sue Palka, will present "The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Jeffrey Dale Lofton, A.D. Nauman | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Lofton will present "Red Clay Suzie." Nauman will present "Down the Steep." Moderated by Amy L. Bernstein. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Joe Posnanski | Sports | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Posnanski will present "Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Melissa Fite Johnson, Edgar Kunz, Jean Nordhaus | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Johnson will present "Midlife Abecedarian." Kunz will present "Fixer." Nordhaus will present "The Music of Being." Moderated by Luther Jett. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Michelle Knudsen, Brian Lies | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Knudsen will present "Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten." Lies will present "The Rough Patch." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Kekla Magoon, Cynthia Leitich Smith | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Magoon will present "The Secret Library." Smith and Magoon will present "Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Shepard will present " A Long Time Coming." Weatherford will present "Kin: Rooted in Hope." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | K.T. Nguyen, Kate White | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Nguyen will present "You Know What You Did." White will present "The Last Time She Saw Him." Moderated by Alex Finlay. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Katherine Howe, Tania James | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Howe will present "A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself." James will present "Loot." Moderated by Karin Tanabe. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | James L. Swanson | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Swanson will present "The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Nicholas Kristof | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Kristof will present "Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Helen Ellis, R. Eric Thomas | Humor | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Ellis will present "Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage." Thomas will present "Congratulations, the Best is Over!" |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Shannon Sanders, Paul Yoon | Fiction | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Sanders will present "Company." Yoon will present " The Hive and the Honey." Moderated by Hannah Oliver Depp. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Sunu P. Chandy, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Clint Smith | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | "Parenting in Modern World Panel" Chandy will present "My Dear Comrades." Hoffman will present " Exploding Head." Smith will present "Above Ground." Moderated by Gregory Luce. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Lesa Cline-Ransome, James Ransome | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Mr. Ransome and Mrs. Cline-Ransome will present "Loud and Proud" and "Fighting with Love." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Elizabeth Bunce, Margaret Peterson Haddix | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Bunce will present "Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity." Haddix will present "Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Ghostly Photos." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Brigid Kemmerer, Jodi Meadows | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Kemmerer will present "Destroy the Day." Meadows will present "Dawnbreaker." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Seth Dickinson | Sci-Fi | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Dickinson will present "Exordia." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Rachel Beanland, Jayne Anne Phillips | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Beanland will present "The House is on Fire." Phillips will present "Night Watch." Moderated by Suzanne Feldman |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Jeffrey Rosen | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Rosen will present "The Pursuit of Happiness." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Travis Rieder | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Rieder will present "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Lauren Kung Jessen, Kennedy Ryan | Fiction - Romance | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Jessen will present "Red String Theory." Ryan will present "This Could Be Us." Moderated by Mariko Hewer. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | John Eisenberg | Sports | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Eisenberg, in conversation with Fox5's Chad Ricardo, will present "Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Richard Blanco | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Blanco will present "Homeland of My Body." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Tracey Baptiste, Wade Hudson | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Hudson will present "Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America." Baptiste will present "African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Sharon G. Flake, Leah Henderson, Gary Schmidt | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Flake will present "Once In a Blue Moon." Schmidt and Henderson will present "A Little Bit Super." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Ciera Burch, Samantha Mabry, Andrew Joseph White | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Burch will present "Something Kindred." Mabry will present "Clever Creatures of the Night." White will present "The Spirit Bares Its Teeth." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Sierra Greer, Kira Peikoff | Sci-Fi | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Greer will present "Annie Bot." Peikoff will present "Baby X." Moderated by Nick Havey. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Susan Coll, Andrew Ewell | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Coll will present "Real Life and Other Fictions." Ewell will present "Set for Life." Moderated by Tayla Burney. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Liza Mundy | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Mundy will present "The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | McKay Coppins | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Coppins, in conversation with Del. Marc Korman, will present "Romney: A Reckoning." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Denny S. Bryce, Stephanie Dray | Historical Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Bryce will present "Can't We Be Friends." Dray will present "Becoming Madam Secretary." Moderated by Carrie Callaghan. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Elizabeth Winkler | Non-Fic | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Winkler will present "Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | John Patrick Green, Dave Roman | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Green will present "InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse." Roman will present "Unicorn Boy." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Kate Albus, L.M. Elliott | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Albus will present "Nothing Else But Miracles." Elliott will present "Bea and the New Deal Horse." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Kim Johnson, William Ritter | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Johnson will present " Invisible Son." Ritter will present "Rook." |
| 3:25 PM | 4:15 PM | Indran Amirthayagam, Jona Colson, Ping Wang | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | "Poetic Translation Panel" Amirthayagam will present "Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port)." Colson will present Miguel Avero's "Aguas/Waters." Wang will present "The River Within." Moderated by Nancy Naomi Carlson. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Angie Kim | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Kim, in conversation with Melissa Scholes Young, will present "Happiness Falls." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Alice McDermott | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | McDermott, in conversation with Washington Post Book World Editor John Williams, will present "Absolution." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Antonia Hylton | Non-Fic - History | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Hylton, in conversation with poet/author Clint Smith, will present "Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Carlos Lozada | Non-Fic | James Michener Pavilion | Carlos Lozada, in conversation with Chris Cillizza, will present "The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Mojgan Ghazirad, Donna Hemans | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Ghazirad will present "The House on Sun Street." Hemans will present "The House of Plain Truth." Moderated by Bareerah Y. Ghani. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Emily Monosson | Non-Fic - Science | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Monosson will present "Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Robert Meganck, Jonathan Roth | Children's - Young Readers | Jim Henson Pavilion | Meganck will present "This Book is Full of Holes." Roth will present "Rover and Speck: Splash Down!" |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Lisa Graff, Hena Khan | Children's - Middle-grade | Willa Cather Pavilion | Khan will present "Drawing Deena." Graff will present "Rewind." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | A.K. Small, Julian Voloj | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Small will present "If I Promise You Wings." Voloj will present "(Not) A New York Love Story." |
| 4:25 PM | 5:15 PM | Sarah Kain Gutowski, Donald Illich, Alba V Sarria | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | "Horror and the Surreal Panel" Gutkowski will present "The Familiar." Illich will present "Rescue Is Elsewhere." Sarria will present "Night Life." Moderated by Brandon Douglas. |
