NYS Writers Institute's 8th Annual Albany Book Festival

10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, September 27 University at Albany Campus Center West 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 Free and open to the public https://www.albanybookfestival.com/ This year’s festival features a distinguished lineup of award-winning, bestselling, and regional authors and poets, including Debbie Millman, Roxane Gay, Russell Shorto, Megan Abbott, and John McWhorter, among many others. In addition to a full day of panel discussions, the festival will include: • More than 100 local authors and exhibitors • Open mic readings • Children’s activities • Book signings • Special tributes and performances Festival week highlights 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 23: Online Workshop — “Crafting Characters Who Drive Your Plot” with novelist C.M. Waggoner. Registration required. https://craftingcharacters.eventbrite.com/ 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 26: State Author and State Poet Installation Ceremony honoring Min Jin Lee and Kimiko Hahn at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. More info: https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/new-york-state-author-state-poet EVENT SCHEDULE Saturday, Sept. 27, University at Albany Campus Center West Auditorium -- 10:30 a.m. – Conversation with State Author Min Jin Lee and State Poet Kimiko Hahn. Moderated by Paul Grondahl, Opalka Endowed Director, NYS Writers Institute -- 12:00 p.m. – Becoming New York Molly Beer (Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution) and Russell Shorto (Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America) -- 1:15 p.m. – Love Letter to a Garden Debbie Millman (Love Letter to a Garden) and Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist: Essays) -- 2:30 p.m. – Toni Morrison and America in the 1980s Paul Elie (The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s) and Dana A. Williams (Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship) -- 4:00 p.m. – Remembering Pierre Joris – Poasis and Beyond: Always the Many Randall Horton (Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays) and Urayoán Noel (Transversal) Campus Center West Boardroom -- 10:30 a.m. – Masculinity Jordan Castro (Muscle Man) and Niobe Way (Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture) -- 11:45 a.m. – Beauty and Its Discontents Chantal Fernandez (Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon) and Tempe Denton-Hurst (Fresh Sets: Contemporary Nail Art from Around the World) -- 1:00 p.m. – Secrets Honor Moore (A Termination) and Tracy O'Neill (Woman of Interest) -- 2:15 p.m. – Dad’s Brain Sandeep Jauhar (My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's) and Natasha Williams (The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness) -- 3:30 p.m. – New Romance Minita Sanghvi (Happy Endings) and Tamani Wooley (Do You Dare?) Campus Center Assembly Hall -- 10:30 a.m. – Pronoun Trouble John McWhorter (Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words) -- 11:45 a.m. –Fairy Tales for Adults Luis Jaramillo (The Witches of El Paso) and Julie Phillips (Bear) -- 1:00 p.m. – Pyramid Schemes Megan Abbott (El Dorado Drive) and Bridget Read (Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America) -- 2:15 p.m. – Poets Responding to Taylor Swift Kristie Frederick Daugherty (Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift), Leah Umansky (Of Tyrant), Samiya Bashir (I Hope This Helps) -- 3:30 p.m. – New Fiction Lindsay Hill (Sea of Hooks) and Christopher Shaw (The Manager: A Tale of the Cold War) Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room -- 10:30 a.m. – Skribblers/Capital District Writing Project Open Mic -- 12:00 p.m. – Children’s Author Spotlight: Ta-Sean Murdock (I Am Brave and Bright! Affirmations for Overcoming Bullies) -- 1:15 p.m. – Bookmaking Presentation: Ambika Sambasivan and Suhani Parikh -- 6:30 p.m. – Remembering Pierre Joris – Part 2: Reading and Performance Campus Center Orb Stage -- 11:30 a.m. – Shaker Pointe Creative Elders Reading -- 12:30 p.m. – Open Mic with Arch Magazine and Young Writers Project -- 2:00 p.m. – Hudson Valley Writers Guild Open Mic -- 3:30 p.m. – WoodstockArts Open Mic With gratitude The Albany Book Festival is made possible through generous support from the Advance Albany County Alliance Cultural and Arts Grant Program and the following sponsors: Premier sponsors Advance Albany County Alliance Renaissance Corporation of Albany Presenting sponsors Pernille Ægidius Dake George and Kathleen McNamee The Opalka Endowed Directorship Times Union University Auxiliary Services Supporting sponsors Hank Greenberg, Greenberg Traurig, LLP The Lasch Family Doris Fischer Malesardi The Swyer Family Foundation

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