After years of moderating panels, tabling for BOMB, and serving on the Bookends Planning Committee, I will attend this year’s BKBF as a certified novelist.

“If We Didn’t Laugh, We’d Cry: The Comedy of Tragedy,” 11am, North Stage: I’ll be attempting to match wits with Binnie Kirshenbaum (Rabbits for Food) and Rawi Hage (Beirut Hellfire Society). Moderated by Rick Moody.

“Un-True Crime,” 2pm, Borough Hall Courtroom: I’m moderating a discussion with Joyce Carol Oates (My Life as A Rat), Nicholas Mancusi (A Philosophy of Ruin), and Lauren Wilkinson (American Spy).