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10 am – 11:30 am
UVa Bookstore
A Room with a Muse
Discussion of writers’ colonies by writers Rosa Shand, Deborah Cummins, Katie Davis, Patrick Cribben and Charlotte Morgan (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts).
UVA Rotunda
Contemporary Literature of India and Pakistan
With Robert Hueckstedt, Griffith Chaussee and Christi Merrill (Center for South Asian Studies).
McIntire Room, Central Library
Mississippi Smoldering
A commemoration of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement with Susie Erenrich, Charles Marsh, Constance Curry and Joan Browning.
City Council Chambers
I’m OK, You’re Not
A discussion of the value of self-help books with author Tom Tiede and self-help authors Megan LeBoutillier and Joel Savishinsky.
Senior Center, Inc.
Mommy Dressing
A slide show and discussion by memoirist Lois Gould of her mother Jo Copeland’s fashions.
Westminster Canterbury
Milford-Haven U.S.A.
Author Mara Purl talks about her fictionalized town featured in novels and on British radio.
12 pm – 1:30 pm
McIntire Room, Central Library
The official opening of the Festival features Lee Smith and David Baldacci talking about how real life shapes literature.
1:00 pm
New Dominion Bookshop
Tea with Lee
Lee Smith joins David Baldacci for a book signing.
2 pm – 3:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
MFA Graduates Reading
With UVa Creative Writing alumni Davis McCombs, Aaron Even, Mary Ann Samyn and Greg Bottoms. (WMRA, UVa Creative Writing Program)
Rotunda
Talk to My Agent
A panel discussion on getting published, with literary agents Al Zuckerman and Bill Gladstone.
McIntire Room, Central Library
Jewish Novelists
Curt Leviant and Lois Gouldread and discuss how being Jewish influences their work.
City Council Chambers
Fascinatin’ Rhythms
With folk author Bryan Garman, rock ‘n’ roll author Nadine Cohodas, and songwriter/author John McCutcheon.
New Dominion Bookshop
Fair and Tender Melodies
A musical adaptation of Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies by Tom House.
Senior Center, Inc.
Siege
Memoir by the American ambassador to Kuwait, W. Nathaniel Howell and co-author Roberta Culbertson.
Barnes & Noble
Mystery Writers
With Anne Underwood Grant, Lisa Kleinholz, Rosemary Stevens and Christine Andreae.
2 – 4:30
UVa Helms Theater
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
A read-through of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 1-54 by UVa Drama students and friends.
3:30
UVa Newcomb Hall Theater
Language and Genes
A talk by geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (UVa Forum for Contemporary Thought).
4 pm – 5:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
Death of the Good Doctor
Kate Scannell discusses how caring for AIDS patients changed her as a doctor (Program of Humanities in Medicine, UVa School of Medicine).
UVa McLeod Hall
We Band of Angels
Elizabeth Norman speaks on captive American nurses in the Philippines during World War II (UVa School of Nursing, Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry).
UVa Women’s Center
Bringing Together Women Writers
Annual reception featuring Dr. Sylvia Rimm, of See Jane Win fame, for one-to-one conversation about her work.
UVa McGregor Room, Alderman Library
Pluto, Shakespeare and the Hinman Collating Machine
Steven Smith will give a talk on the noteworthy device. (Bibliographical Society of UVa, Rare Book School, UVa English Dept.)
McIntire Room, Central Library
Poetry Reading
With James Reiss and David Budbill.
City Council Chambers
Bioethics and the Human Genome
Experts Allen Buchanan, Eric Meslin, Jonathan Moreno, James Childress, Doris Zallen, and Wesley Smith discuss medical and genetic ethics, present and future. (WMRA)
Village School
Court Cases That Changed America
With authors Leroy Phillips and Sheila Berry.
Jefferson School
The Desegregated Heart
Republication of Sarah Patton Boyle’s memoir, with panelists Jennifer Ritterhouse, George Gilliam, Eugene Williams and Chic Moran. (University Press of Virginia)
LiveArts
African American Dramatists
With A. Peter Bailey and Teresa Dowell-Vest.
Miller Center
The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt
Holly Shulman and Maurine Beasley discuss The Encyclopedia of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Barnes & Noble
Lee in the Afternoon
Booksigning by Lee Smith.
V. Earl Dickinson Theater, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Living Landmarks
Book reviews and a photo essay on the importance of trees with Douglas Coleman, Hal E. Gieseking and Jeffrey George Meyer (Piedmont Master Gardeners).
Westminster Canterbury
The Girls’ Novels of Janet Lambert
Presented by her daughter Jeanne Vanderhoef.
Prism Coffeehouse
Diagnosing Jefferson
Was Thomas autistic? Author Norman Ledgin thinks so.
6 pm - 7:30 pm
Read It Again Sam
The How-To’s of Who-Dunnits
Discussion of mystery and suspense writing with authors Andy Straka, John Jasper, Kayla McGrady, Gaye Newton, and Carolyn Hart.
UVa McGregor Room, Alderman Library
John Dos Passos, The Man and His Work
A viewing of the author’s materials in UVa’s Special Collections and a talk by his daughter, Lucy Dos Passos Coggin.
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Jefferson School
Voices of Adult Learners
Writers from area literacy and adult education programs read from their work (Regional Literacy Coordinating Committee).
7 – 8:00 pm
UVa Culbreth Theater
Poetry Reading
With Gregory Orr and U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz.
Barnes & Noble
Women on the Row
Revelations from Kathleen O’Shea’s Pulitzer-nominated book (Amnesty International, WMRA).
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail
Author Leonard M. Adkins will give a multi-media presentation based on his award-winning book.
8 pm – 9:30 pm
Dickinson Auditiorium, Piedmont Virginia Community College
See Jane Shine
Dr. Sylvia Rimm, author of See Jane Win and How Jane Won, discusses women’s success stories (PVCC, FOCUS, Women’s Center, WMRA).
9 pm – 10:30 pm
UVa Culbreth Theater
Jazz Poetry Performance
With Jayne Cortez, Bill Cole, Warren Smith, William Parker and Cooper Moore.
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