9:30am AI and the Future of Writing

Featuring Geraldine Brooks, Rebecca Makkai, Ben Smith, Jacob Weisberg

Moderated by Kara Swisher, host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of The Pivot podcast, editor-at-large New York Magazine

10:30am Violence & Justice

Featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Chain-Gang All-Stars), Jessamine Chan (School for Good Mothers), Rebecca Makkai (I Have Some Questions for You), Richard North Patterson (Trial)

Moderated by John Gennari, Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont

11:30am Supreme Court, Affirmative Action & Legacies of Injustice

Joan Biskupic (Nine Black Robes), Rachel Swarns (The 272), Michael Waldman (The Supermajority), Kate Zernike (The Exceptions)

Moderated by Dawn Porter, award-winning documentary filmmaker including the upcoming four-part docuseries on the Supreme Court

12:30pm Dynasty and Wealth: How Wealth Structures American Life

Andrew Meier (Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty), Gretchen Morgenson (These Are the Plunderers), Jeannette Walls (Hang the Moon)

Moderated by John Battelle, co-founder of Wired Magazine and The Industry Standard, journalist, investor, entrepreneur

1:30pm Presidential Politics: Battle for the Future/Reflections on the Past

Jonathan Alter (His Very Best: Jimmy Carter-A Life), Doug Brinkley (Silent Spring Revolution), Juliette Kayyem (The Devil Never Sleeps), Carol Leonnig (I Alone Can Fix It)

Moderated by Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for NPR

2:30pm Reckoning with Identity in Memoir: The Self on the Page

Kwame Alexander (Why Fathers Cry at Night), Nicole Chung (A Living Remedy), Christian Cooper (Better Living Through Birding), Michelle Miller (Belonging)

Moderated by Emily Greenhouse, Editor, The New York Review of Books