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Don't forget to register for the premier librarian-only gathering of the year, Library Journal’s Day of Dialog returns virtually on May 6 with something new. Along with a packed day of panels ranging from historical fiction to social justice, the event will feature extended individual interviews with four important authors.

Take a look at our packed program below!

Program

9:30-10:10AM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

LITERARY FICTION, HERE AND ABROAD
Uwem Akpan, New York, My Village, W. W. Norton
Lauren Groff, Matrix, Riverhead: Penguin Random House

Bernhard Schlink, Olga, HarperVia: HarperCollins
Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway, Viking: Penguin Random House
Margaret Verble, When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Moderator: Lisa Peet, News Editor, LJ

SOCIAL JUSTICE, NOW AND TOMORROW
Manuel Hinds, In Defense of Liberal Democracy: What We Need To Do To Heal a Divided America, Imagine: Charlesbridge 
Theodore Roosevelt Johnson, When the Stars Begin To Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America, Atlantic Monthly: Grove Atlantic

Nesrine Malik, We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom, W. W. Norton
Tamika D. Mallory, State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built, Black Privilege: Atria: Simon & Schuster
Albert Samaha, Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, Riverhead: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Leah Huey, DeKalb, P.L., IL

10:15-10:55AM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

HISTORY AND CULTURE
Dan Grunfeld, By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Family Legacy, and the American Dream, Triumph Books: IPG
Randall Kennedy, Say It Loud! On Race, History, and Culture, Pantheon: Penguin Random House

Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried To Make Her Disappear, Sourcebooks
Matthew Pearl, The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America, Harper: HarperCollins
Darla Worden, Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline, Darla Worden, Chicago Review: IPG
Moderator: Mattie Cook, Flat River Community Lib., MI

THRILLERS
Virginia Feito, Mrs. March, Liveright: W. W. Norton
Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning, Riverhead: Penguin Random House
Alex Michaelides, The Maidens, Celadon Books: Macmillan 
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night, Del Rey: Penguin Random House
Michelle Richmond, The Wonder Test, Atlantic Monthly Press: Grove Atlantic

Moderator: Liz French, Senior Editor, LJ Book Reviews

 

11:00-11:30AM ET | BREAK
 

11:30 AM-12:10PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT INTERVIEWS

IN CONVERSATION WITH COLSON WHITEHEAD 
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Doubleday: Penguin Random House
Interviewed by Rhonda Evans, Assistant Chief Librarian, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL

IN CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY DOERR
Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Scribner: Simon & Schuster
Interviewed by Barbara Hoffert, Prepub Alert Editor, LJ

 

12:15-12:55PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

LITERARY FICTION, CROSSING BOUNDARIES
Mona Awad, All’s Well, S. & S., Simon & Schuster
Wiley Cash, When Ghosts Come Home, William Morrow: HarperCollins
Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise, Knopf: Penguin Random House
Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor, William Morrow: HarperCollins
Kikuo Johnson, No One Else, Fantagraphics
Moderator:  Lillian Dabney, The Seattle Athenaeum

MEMOIR MATTERS
Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, Algonquin: Workman
Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir, Oprah: Flatiron: Macmillan
Ahmad Joudeh, Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star; a Memoir, Imagine: Charlesbridge
Tabitha Lasley, Sea State: A Memoir, Ecco: HarperCollins
Moderator: Stephanie Sendaula, Associate Editor, LJ Review

1:00-1:30PM ET | BREAK

1:30-2:10PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT INTERVIEWS

IN CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN FRANZEN (LIVE SESSION ONLY, NOT AVAILABLE ON DEMAND)
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Macmillan
Interviewed by Barbara Hoffert, Prepub Alert Editor, LJ

IN CONVERSATION WITH KATIE COURIC
Katie Couric, Going There, Little, Brown & Company: Hachette Book Group
Interviewed by Meredith Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief, LJ

2:15-2:55PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

STARS IN THEIR EYES, WITH SOME CHILLS
Xio Axelrod, The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes, Sourcebooks Casablanca: Sourcebooks
Lauren K. Denton, The One You’re With, HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Lynette Eason, Hostile Intent, Revell: Baker Publishing Group
Rex Pickett, The Archivist, Blackstone Publishing
Farrah Rochon, The Dating Playbook, Forever: Hachette Book Group
Moderator: Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., I

WOMEN AND ART
M.J. Fievre, Empowered Black Girl: Joyful Affirmations and Words of Resilience, Mango Publishing
Anita Kunz, Another History of Art, Fantagraphics
Molly Peacock, Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door, ECW Press
Maria Tatar, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces, Liveright: W. W. Norton
Marlene Wagman-Geller, Unabashed Women: The Fascinating Biographies of Bad Girls, Seductresses, Rebels and One-of-a-Kind Women, Mango Publishing
Moderator: Kaite Stover, Kansas City P.L., MO
 

3:00-3:30PM ET | BREAK

3:30-4:10PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

MYSTERY
Naomi Hirahara, Clark and Division, Soho Crime: Soho Press
William Kent Krueger, Lightning Strike, Atria: S. & S. 
Marcy McCreary, The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon, CamCat Books
Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets, William Morrow Paperbacks: HarperCollins
Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Pamela Dorman: Viking: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

HISTORICAL FICTION
Sandra Brown, Blind Tiger, Grand Central Publishing: Hachette Book Group
Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe, HarperMuse: HarperCollins Focus
Susie Finkbeiner, The Nature of Small Birds, Revell: Baker Publishing Group 
Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, MIRA: Harlequin
Lesley Krueger, Time Squared, ECW Press

Moderatior: Julie Kane, Washington & Lee Lib., Lexington, V

4:15-5:00PM ET | TWO CONCURRENT PANELS

WORLD WAR II FICTION
Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls, Harlequin
Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II, William Morrow Paperbacks: HarperCollins
Michelle Gable, The Bookseller’s Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII, Graydon House, Harlequin
Kristin Harmel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, Gallery Books: Simon & Schuster
Heather Morris, Three Sisters, St. Martin’s: Macmillan
Moderators: Marianne Paterniti, Book Group Coordinator, & Pat Sheary, Head of Adult Programming, Darien Library, C

4:15-5:00PM ET | SF/FANTASY
Jacqui Castle, The Seclusion II, Indie Author Project
Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World, Erewhon: Workman
TJ Klune, Under the Whispering Door, Tor: Macmillan
Cadwell Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters, Blackstone Publishing
Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful, Tor.com: Macmillan

Moderator: Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton 

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