Friday
March 22

Friday, March 22

10-11:30 a.m.

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding

Journalist and theologian Michael Novak takes a historical look at faith's place in government. (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

Rare Book Appraisal Clinic

Join book brokers Scott Fennessey (Blue Whale) and Dave Taylor (Read It Again Sam) for a discussion on factors that contribute to a book's value. Feel free to bring a few books.

Blue Whale Books

Writing Artist's Lives

Join biographers Tim Page (Dawn Powell), Hazel Rowley (Richard Wright) and Peter Kurth (Isadora Duncan).

UVa Bookstore

Free Lance Dance

The professional scoop from free lance writers Rick Britton, Kara Carden and Gael P. Mustapha. Moderated by Sandra Gurvis.

UVa Rotunda

Speaking from the Heart

A poetry workshop with Kristen Rembold and Judy Longley (hosted by the Piedmont Council of the Arts and the Charlottesville/Albemarle Very Special Arts).

Independence Resource Center

11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

Trumpets and Tumults

Author Indar Jit Rikhye discusses his book with commentary by David Newsom and Inis Claude.

Miller Center

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Genes to Jungles

With science writers Jennifer Ackerman (Chance in the House of Fate), Patricia Thomas (Big Shot: Passion, Politics and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine) and Elizabeth Royte (The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rainforest). (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

More Lies Ahead

Author and founding director of the Center for Public Integrity Charles Lewis (The Cheating of America) and Crossfire co-host Bill Press (Spin This!) join linguist Jeremy Campell (The Liar's Tale) to discuss the state of integrity in America. Moderated by Dan Doernberg (Fairness.com).

McIntire Room, Central Library

Fiction Reading and Discussion

With novelists Eric Kraft (Inflating a Dog) and Fred Viebahn (The Stain).

New Dominion Bookshop

Inside Info on Getting Published

Former HarperCollins editor Susan Rabiner and authors Karen Jones and Kathleen Brehony (Up the Bestsellesr List) give promotion tips for getting a book and sending it up the charts.

UVa Bookstore

Jefferson's Pillow: Slavery and the Founding Fathers

With author and civil rights journalist Roger Wilkins.

UVa Rotunda

Body Work

Body imagery discussed by authors Jean Renfro Anspaugh (Fat Like Us), Lori Gottlieb (Stick Figure) and Jeffrey Scott Isenberg (The Legacy of Narcissus: Moral Dilemmas in Modern Aesthetic Surgery).

Atlantic Coast Athletic Club

Life and Love

With African American novelists Kimberla Lawson Roby (It's a Thin Line), Tracey Price-Thompson (Black Coffee) and Donna Hemans (River Woman).

Piedmont Virginia Community College

Spring Training: Baseball Books

With Steve Fainaru (The Duke of Havanna), Neil Conan (Play by Play) and Mark Friedman (Columbus Slaughters Braves).

Barnes & Noble

2 – 3:30 p.m.

Davey Jones's Unlockers

Elite underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan (Submerged) and chronicler of the ocean floor mapping revolution David M. Lawrence (Upheaval from the Abyss) discuss their recent books. (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

Up and Coming Fiction

With first novelists Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil), Brad Barkley (Money, Love) and Trisha Thomas (Nappily Ever After).

McIntire Room, Central Library

Power of Place

With authors John O'Brien (At Home in the Heart of Appalachia), Deanne Stillman (Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines and the Mohave) and Richard Goodman (French Dirt).

New Dominion Bookshop

Is Sex Really Necessary?

Must prose be purple to publish? Ask novelists Alexandra Ripley (Scarlett), Ben Cheever (Famous After Death), M.J. Rose (In Fidelity) and Elizabeth Benedict (The Joy of Writing Sex).

UVa Bookstore

Electronic Adventures in Bibliography

David Seaman of the UVa eText Center will demonstrate Studies in Bibliography online (Bibliographic Society of UVa).

McGregor Room, Alderman Library

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic

Gossip, dueling and newspaper assassination, discussed by Joanne Freeman (Jefferson Library/Monticello).

Jefferson Library, Kenwood

4 – 5:30 p.m.

Deadlines and Bluelines

Authors Ellen Hoffman (Bankroll Your Future Retirement), Marc Leepson (Saving Monticello), Colette Rossant (Memories of a Lost Egypt) and Deanne Stillman (Twentynine Palms) discuss expanding articles into full-length books. Moderated by Bella Stander. (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

No Strings Attached

The free agent and wireless revolutions with Daniel H. Pink (Free Agent Nation), Steve Fainaru (The Duke of Havanna) and James B. Murray (Wireless Nation).

McIntire Room, Central Library

Runaway Fiction

Stories of flight and shelter with novelists Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees) and Kate Manning (Whitegirl).

New Dominion Bookshop

Blood and Turnips: The Irish Famine and Children's Literature.

A panel exploring the history of children's books about the Great Famine with Karen McNamara, Joan Gulotta and Jacquelyn Vawter. Moderated by Mary Lyons.

Village School

Poetry Daily Presents

Poetry Daily website favorites David Kirby (The House of Blue Light), Barbara Hamby (The Alphabet of Desire) and Albert Goldbarth (Saving Lives) read from their work (www.poems.com).

UVa Bookstore

Contemporary Literature of India and Pakistan

Readings of translations from Hindi and Urdu by Robert Hueckstedt, Griffith Chaussee and Valerie Ritter (Center for South Asian Studies).

UVa Rotunda

John Steinbeck: A Centennial Celebration

A viewing of the author's rare materials as scholar David Wyatt discusses his work. Moderated by Michael Plunkett (Special Collections).

McGregor Room, Alderman Library

Dancing with Destiny

The life of Isadora Duncan with biographer Peter Kurth. A clip of Duncan dancing will be shown.

Les Yeux du Monde, 705 W. Main St

Historical Fiction

With Laura Brylawski-Miller (The Square at Vigevano), Amanda Cockerell (Pomegranate Seed) and Margaret Hoffman (Blackbeard).

Westminster Canterbury

For Better and For Worse: Stories of Love

With authors Maribeth Fischer (The Language of Goodbye), Kate Cohen (A Walk Down the Aisle: Notes on the Modern Wedding) and Daniel Jones (After Lucy).

Barnes & Noble

6 – 7:30p.m.

Thrillers: Fact and Fiction

Author David Baldacci (Last Man Standing) and Christopher Whitcomb (Cold Zero: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team) discuss their work.

UVa Culbreth Theatre

Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences

The gamut of material on the subject, heaven and hell, facts and myths, with Dr. P.M.H. Atwater.

Quest Bookshop

8 – 9:30 p.m.

Natural History

With bestselling science writers Michael Pollan (Botany of Desire) and Tim Flannery (The Eternal Frontier).

UVa Culbreth Theatre

Poet of the Barrio

A reading by Mexican-American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca (Healing Earthquakes).

Wilson Hall, UVa

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