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10 am – 11:30 am
UVa Rotunda
Virginia Women Writers on the Civil War and the Southern Family
Featuring the work of Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston and Evelyn Scott discussed by Anne Goodwyn Jones, Nancy Essig and Lucinda McKethan.
McIntire Room, Central Library
Not-So-Cheap Thrills
Varieties of mystery and suspense writing with authors Raymond DeVere-Austin, Brewster Milton Robertson, Frankie Bailey, Anne Grant and Andy Straka.
UVa Bookstore
Sports and Society
A discussion of athletics in our culture with John Watterson, Murray Sperber, Steve Fainaru and Ronald Smith.
City Council Chambers
World War II on the Page
With authors J. Kemp McLaughlin, J. Marj Scalia and Kenneth Beyer.
New Dominion Bookshop
Goshen
Lessons from the River with artist/authors Jack and Judy Witt.
Saddle Up
The Dog and Pony Show
Discussion of hounds and steeplechasing by authors Robert Ashcom and Peter Winants.
Barnes & Noble
Coming of Age With First Novelists
Readings by Carl Weber, Leah Stewart and Matt O’Keefe.
Miller Center
The Imperial Mantle
The United States, Decolonization and the Third World. With Former ambassador David Newsom.
Independence Resource Center
Rescuing Jeffrey
A discussion on life and death matters with Richard Galli, lawyer and father, and Jonathan Moreno, medical ethicist. (Background materials for Galli's presentation are available here.) (WMRA, Independence Reource Center)
Westminster Canterbury
Dreaming Relationships
Drs. Phyllis Koch-Sheras and Peter Sheras discuss how to strengthen couple relationships using dreams.
Charlottesville High School
Student Radio Drama - Mission Impossible
Author and actress Mara Purl discusses her work. (Contact David Small)
11:45 pm – 1:30 pm
Ballroom, Omni Charlottesville Hotel
Featuring Paule Marshall: With a career spanning four decades, novelist Paule Marshall reads from and signs her latest, The Fisher King.Tickets required (sold out). (Wachovia)
2 pm – 3:30 pm
UVa Ruffner Auditorium, G-004A
New Visions
A talk and discussion with feminist theorist bell hooks (Curry School of Education).
UVa Rotunda
Symposium
Opening remarks of a two-day symposium on Music Suppressed by the Third Reich. (McIntire Department of Music, History, French, Judaic Studies). For more information on the events visit www.people.virginia.edu/~bhl4n/Convention.html
UVa Bookstore
Women at Work
With anthologist of extraordinary women Michele Slung, fighter pilot Missy Cummings and hospice worker Christine Andreae.
McIntire Room, Central Library
The Search for Americas
Fiction and nonfiction readings by Agymah Kamau, Robert Finley and Katherine McNamara.
City Council Chambers
Going Right to the Source
Primary sources in writing about the past with authors Coy Barefoot, Jennifer Elvgren and Megan Smolenyak. (Albemarle County Historical Society)
Village School
Sacred Bearings
A reading from Sacred Bearings journal, addressing violence, healing and the sacred with editor Roberta Culbertson, Gregory Orr, Angela Daniel and Marjorie Sargent.
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Jessup Library Window Lounge
Writers with a "Wild" Streak
Fiction and creative nonfiction with authors Luke Whisnant, Ann Hood and Clint McCown.
Kenwood
For Jeffersonians
A discussion of African American families and the Levy Stewardship of Monticello with Melvin Urofsky and Cinder Stanton (Thomas Jefferson Foundation).
2:30 p.m.
New Dominion Bookshop
Paule on the Mall
A chat with Paule Marshall and a booksigning.
4 pm – 5:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
Poetry Reading
With Alan Shapiro, Deborah Tall and George Garrett.
UVa McGregor Room, Alderman Library
For Bibliophiles
Brief talks by UVa graduate students Carter Hailey, William Hughes, and Karen Wikander, moderated by Catherine Rodriguez. (Bibliographical Society of UVa)
McIntire Room, Central Library
Gadflies
Cultural criticism with authors David Brooks, James Hunter, Frankie Bailey, Gadfly editor John Whitehead, and moderator Susan Tyler Hitchcock. (Gadfly)
City Council Chambers
Biographies of Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Ron Brown and Oliver Hill
With biographers A. Peter Bailey, Karl Evanzz, Steven Holmes, Jonathan Stubbs, and moderator Rick Turner.
New Dominion Bookshop
They Went Whistling:Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways and Renegades
Barbara Holland reads and discusses lives of extraordinary women.
Village School
Healing in a Global Community
Stories of healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with author and clinical psychologist Kate Hudgins (Therapeutic Spiral International Charity).
Second Street Gallery
The Book as Object/Subject
Artist and writer Buzz Spector and Johanna Drucker discuss the unique unique position of the book in our culture.
Barnes & Noble
Fiction Reading
With novelists Barbara Esstman, M. J. Rose, and Robert Morgan.
Westminster Canterbury
Historical Fiction
A panel discussion with Anne Newton Walther, Virginia Morton, John Ballinger and Vincent Panella.
6pm – 7:30 pm
Read It Again Sam
The Art of Mystery
With authors Marshall Frank, Mary V. Welk, Janet Benrey, Ron Benrey and Joe Fontana.
8pm – 9:30 pm
UVa Culbreth Theater
Fiction Reading
With Lee Smith, Paule Marshall and Clyde Edgerton. (Sprint Yellow Pages)
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
White Death
Author McKay Jenkins discusses avalanche and mountaineering
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