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Humor and Satire

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Programs by Subject 2026 Humor and Satire

10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
NBF Presents Southern Satire
Join National Book Award–honored authors Ben Fountain (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 2012 Fiction Finalist; Rasputin Swims the Potomac) and T. Geronimo Johnson (Welcome to Braggsville, 2015 Fiction Longlister; The Occidental Book of the Dead) play with language and humor to expose the most astonishing, horrifying, and honest parts of present-day American life. Join the authors for readings and conversation on deploying satire to get closer to truth, both for themselves as writers and for their readers. Moderated by Delaney Nolan, investigative journalist and author of Happy Bad. Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation.

Noon to 12:45 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl
Amena Brown blends storytelling, humor, and pop culture commentary to traverse the magic and wisdom she's gleaned from being raised by Southern Black women, and supported by the community of Black women who hold her down today.