Friday, April 30

10 a.m. 
Face Off! Overcoming Barriers

With David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy Wieringa; moderated by Matt de la Peña [event details]

12:30 p.m. 
Garden Readings

With Filip Florian, Rodrigo Fresán, Marcel Möring, Thomas Pletzinger, and Monique Proulx [event details]

1 p.m. 
The Poetry of Edward Hopper

With Ernest Farrés and Edward Hirsch [event details]

1 p.m. 
Incognito: Writers and their Aliases

With Bernardo Atxaga, Alina Bronsky, and Randa Jarrar; moderated by Arnon Grunberg [event details]

1 p.m. 
The Future of Journalism

With Lewis Lapham, Joris Luyendijk, Martin Pollack, and Mary Anne Weaver [event details]

1 p.m. 
This Critical Moment: The Journey—A National Book Critics Circle Conversation

With Eric Banks, Jane Ciabattari, Rigoberto González, and Mary Ann Newman [event details]

3 p.m. 
Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading

With Ben Okri, Thomas Pletzinger, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, and Sergi Sokolovskiy; moderated by Ben Schrank [event details]

3 p.m. 
Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible

With Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk; moderated by Albert Mobilio [event details]

3:30 p.m. 
Quim Monzó in Conversation with Robert Coover

With Quim Monzó and Robert Coover; moderated by Mary Ann Newman [event details]

3:30 p.m. 
Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future

With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares; moderated by Deborah Treisman [event details]

4:30 p.m. 
Heaven and Earth

With Karl O. Knausgaard, Joris Luyendijk, Monique Proulx, and Roman Senchin; moderated by Noreen Tomassi [event details]

5 p.m. 
David Almond and Sofi Oksanen in Conversation with Rakesh Satyal

With David Almond and Sofi Oksanen; moderated by Rakesh Satyal [event details]

5:30 p.m. 
Peter Schneider in Conversation

 [event details]

6:30 p.m. 
The Big Poetry Reading

With Naja Marie Aidt, Barry Gifford, valter hugo mãe, and Pavel Nastin [event details]

6:30 p.m. 
Writing Inside, Writing Outside

With Anthony Cardenales, Piper Kerman, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; moderated by Jackson Taylor [event details]

7 p.m. 
The Great Fire—Shirley Hazzard in Conversation with Richard Ford

With Richard Ford and Shirley Hazzard, along with special guests for readings of Shirley Hazzard’s work [event details]

7 p.m. 
A New World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig’s Utopian Nostalgia

With Michael Hofmann, Paul Holdengräber, George Prochnik, and Klemens Renoldner; moderated by Jonathan Taylor [event details]

8 p.m. 
Translation Slam

With Alex Epstein, Assaf Gavron, Barry Gifford, Barbara Harshav, Thomas Pletzinger, and Martin Pollack; moderated by Michael F. Moore [event details]

4:30 p.m. 
“I Come from There”: Egyptian Products

With Laila Soliman [event details]

6:30 p.m. 
“I Come from There”: 603

With Imad Farajin [event details]

8 p.m. 
I Come From There: Forum

With Laila Hourani, Elyse Dodgson, April De Angelis, and Marvin Carlson [event details]