SATURDAY, AUGUST 5
Harbor View Hotel - 131 North Water Street - Edgartown - 508-627-7000
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
All programs are FREE on Saturday. No advanced tickets needed.
All panel discussions in the Edgartown Room
9:00 am
Cooking and Culture
Sarah Leah Chase (The New England Open House Cookbook)
Susie Middleton (Simple Green Suppers)
Joan Nathan (King Solomon's Table)
Sarah Waldman (Feeding a Family)
Moderated by Glenn Roberts, Founder, Anson Mills
10:00 am
Black Female Resistance
Carol Anderson (White Rage)
Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught)
Tera Hunter (Bound in Wedlock)
Beth Macy (Truevine)
Moderated by Barbara Krauthamer, Dean of the Graduate School,
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
11:00 am
Journalism, Comedy, Op-Eds: Writing for Social Change
Jenny Allen (Would Everybody Please Stop?)
Madeleine Blais (To the New Owners)
Richard North Patterson (Fever Swamp)
Moderated by Arnie Reisman, Writer and Producer
12:00 pm
Ann Patchett, Richard Russo, and Amor Towles
in conversation
1:10 pm
Help or Hindrance: US Government in Science
Peter Brannen (The Ends of the World)
David R. Foster (A Meeting of Land and Sea)
Sharon Weinberger (The Imagineers of War)
Moderated by Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent, Science Magazine
2:05 pm
Defending Women's Rights
Gillian Thomas (Because of Sex)
Alyssa Mastromonaco (Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?)
Jessica Harris (My Soul Looks Back)
Moderated by Allan Arffa, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
3:00 pm
Fitting In: Friendship and Identity
Julie Buntin (Marlena)
Min Jin Lee (Pachinko)
Danzy Senna (New People)
Deborah Tannen (You're the Only One I Can Tell)
Moderator: Jennifer Tseng, Poet, Novelist and Teacher
INFORMATION TABLE in the lobby of the Harbor View Hotel
BOOK SALES by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore
BOOK SIGNINGS All authors will be signing their books for 30 minutes following their panel discussions
FOOD A special book festival menu of items for quick pick up by festival goers will be available for purchase at the Lighthouse Restaurant Bar in the Harbor View Hotel