Here’s  the schedule for the 2nd annual Boston Book Festival. 

Note that the featured authors include Tom Perrotta and Ann Hood, who were two of the big names at this year’s Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell. Also highlighted are poet and writer Nick Flynn, who appeared at the 2008 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Lowell, and author and Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, who holds an honorary degree from UMass Lowell.  The keynote speaker is novelist Joyce Carol Oates (who has not been to Lowell as far as I know, but that’s OK.)