Authors, tickets, etc.
TIA WILLIAMS with Maisy Card
TIA WILLIAMS with Maisy Card
TIA WILLIAMS with Maisy Card
Friday April 5th
7 pm
Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, Lucky, Teen People, and Essence. In 2004, she pioneered the beauty-blog industry with her award-winning site, Shake Your Beauty. She wrote the bestselling debut novel The Accidental Diva and penned two young adult novels, I
Friday April 5th
7 pm
Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, Lucky, Teen People, and Essence. In 2004, she pioneered the beauty-blog industry with her award-winning site, Shake Your Beauty. She wrote the bestselling debut novel The Accidental Diva and penned two young adult novels, It Chicks and Sixteen Candles. Her award-winning novel The Perfect Find is a Netflix movie starring Gabrielle Union. Her novel, Seven Days in June, was a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Tia currently lives with her daughter and her husband in Brooklyn.
You can find Maisy Card at maisycard.com.
HAYLEY and JOHN ROCCO
TIA WILLIAMS with Maisy Card
TIA WILLIAMS with Maisy Card
Saturday April 6th
11 am
Hayley Rocco has five books launching in 2024 including Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough; and the first three books in Meet the Wild Things, a new series introducing young readers to endangered animals. In addition to becoming an ambassador for Wild Tomorrow, she co-chairs the Children's Book
Saturday April 6th
11 am
Hayley Rocco has five books launching in 2024 including Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough; and the first three books in Meet the Wild Things, a new series introducing young readers to endangered animals. In addition to becoming an ambassador for Wild Tomorrow, she co-chairs the Children's Book Creators for Conservation group. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband John Rocco.
John Rocco is a NYT bestselling author and illustrator of books for children including Blackout, the recipient of a Caldecott Honor, and How We Got to the Moon, which received a Robert F. Sibert Honor and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Rocco illustrated the covers for Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Trials of Apollo. Also Percy Jackson's Greek Gods and Greek Heroes.An ambassador for Wild Tomorrow, he also co-chairs the Children's Book Creators for Conservation group.
JAMES FRANKIE THOMAS
JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jonathan Santlofer
JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jonathan Santlofer
Saturday April 6th
2 pm
James Frankie Thomas is a lifelong New Yorker. He graduated from the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Idlewild is his first novel.
JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jonathan Santlofer
JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jonathan Santlofer
JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jonathan Santlofer
Saturday April 6th
4 pm
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of many works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is the editor of New Jersey Noir, Prison Noir, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, and Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award
Saturday April 6th
4 pm
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of many works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is the editor of New Jersey Noir, Prison Noir, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, and Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, and a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Little City Laughing
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
Heroes, Histories and Ghosties, Oh, My!
Saturday April 6th
8 pm
Comics:
Anna Suzuki
Gabriel Generally
Nick Mestad
Michael Abber
Amamah Sardar
Leah Williams, producer of Little City Laughing, is a comedy producer, former bookseller, and social media manager. She has shows around the city. When she’s not producing and tweeting, she’s writing a play with her writing partner who t
Saturday April 6th
8 pm
Comics:
Anna Suzuki
Gabriel Generally
Nick Mestad
Michael Abber
Amamah Sardar
Leah Williams, producer of Little City Laughing, is a comedy producer, former bookseller, and social media manager. She has shows around the city. When she’s not producing and tweeting, she’s writing a play with her writing partner who tragically moved to the West Coast, and rewatching bad TV.
Heroes, Histories and Ghosties, Oh, My!
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
Heroes, Histories and Ghosties, Oh, My!
Sunday April 7th
11 am
Join authors Soman Chainani, Sayantani DasGupta, Veera Hiranandani and Raakhee Mirchandani — in conversation with teen actor Nirvaan Pal — as they discuss new projects and ancestral gifts.
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
Sunday April 7th
2 pm
Kim Coleman Foote was born and raised in New Jersey, where she started writing fiction at the age of seven(ish). A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she has received additional fellowships from the NEA, NYFA, Bread Loaf, Phillips Exeter Academy, Center for Fiction, and Fulbright, and residenci
Sunday April 7th
2 pm
Kim Coleman Foote was born and raised in New Jersey, where she started writing fiction at the age of seven(ish). A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she has received additional fellowships from the NEA, NYFA, Bread Loaf, Phillips Exeter Academy, Center for Fiction, and Fulbright, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook, among others. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, The Literary Review, Kweli, and Obsidian. Coleman Hill is her first book.
YA Panel w/DAVID LEVITHAN
YA Panel w/DAVID LEVITHAN
KIM COLEMAN FOOTE with Dr. Mariel Buqué
Sunday April 7th
4 pm
Scholastic publisher, author, advocate, and our favorite guy emcees a fantastic panel of YA authors:
E. Lockhart
Gayle Forman
Goldy Moldavsky
Coe Booth
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