Saturday
March 23

Saturday, March 23

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Publishers' Day 2002:

The Internet and Publishing: Mixing and Maxing Media

Tickets $35; call 434-924-6890

See Publishers' Day, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Newcomb Hall Ballroom and Theater
University of Virginia

Crime Wave at VABook!

A Day of Mystery Writers

See Crime Wave, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Albemarle County Office Building

Motheread / Fatheread of Virginia presents: StoryFest

Door prizes and special giveaways, storyteller Jim Weiss and illustrator Colin Bootman, with the appearance of costumed storybook characters like the Cat-in-the-Hat.

See StoryFest.

McIntire Room, Central Library

10-11:30 a.m.

Can I Write This?

Threats to free speech discussed by Marjorie Heins (Not in Front of the Children), Robert M. O'Neil (The First Amendment and Civil Liability) and Bruce W. Sanford (Don't Shoot the Messenger). Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

City Council Chambers

Sacred Bearings

Readings from Sacred Bearings: a Journal of the Violence and Survival, with poet Gregory Orr and editor Roberta Culbertson.

Village School

Life as We Write It

Approaches to Writing Great Lives, with authors Mary Lee Settle (I, Roger Williams), William Lee Miller (Lincoln's Virtues), Eric Seaborg (Adventures in the Atomic Age) and A'Lelia Bundles (The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker).

UVa Bookstore

In the Company of Good and Evil

The rise and fall of Value America with authors Ken Power and Craig Winn. Moderated by Bill Hunt.

UVa Rotunda

The Hot List

With rising African American novelists Tracy Price-Thompson (Black Coffee) and Kimberla Lawson Roby (It's a Thin Line).

Barnes & Noble

11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Seventh Annual Kids' Book Swap

Have the kids devoured everything in the house? Trade some of those old titles for new ones. Hundreds to choose from!

Oakley's Gently Used Books
On the Downtown Mall, at York Place

11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Hands-on Printing and Bookmaking Events for Families

With Bob Anderson, Josef Beery, Debra Fabrizzi, Robin Braun, Marion Reynolds, and Frank Riccio. Pop over during or after StoryFest at the Library.

McGuffey Arts Center

12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Mystery Luncheon with Elizabeth Peters

A limited-seating event at Metropolitain Restaurant.
Tickets $45.
SOLD OUT. For waiting list call 434-924-6890.

Metropolitain Restaurant

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Entertaining Truths

Author Paul Aron (Unsolved Mysteries of History) and Robert Smith (Carnival of Animals) join authors Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett (Just Curious…Jeeves, Wannabe Guides) to discuss writing about unusual, unexpected and amusing topics. (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

Faulkner to Fowler: Saga into Song

Musical adaptions from William Faulkner, Lee Smith, and Connie May Fowler, composed and performed by Karren Pell and Tom House.

Village School

Coming of Age

A reading by novelists Lewis Nordan, Sandra Gurvis and Joseph Weisberg.

New Dominion Bookshop

Prime Meridian

A reading of fiction and poetry, Christopher Tilghman (Mason's Retreat) and David Kirby (The House of Blue Light).

UVa Bookstore

Shop Talk

Featuring Donna Hemans's River Woman and Trisha Thomas's hair-aware novel, Nappily Ever After.

Kenneth Coles Salon

Lives in the Fast Lane

With Ronda Rich (My Life In The Pits: Living and Learning On The NASCAR Winston Cup Circuit) and Vicky Ann Moon (The Middleburg Mystique).

Waldenbooks

Ounces of Fitness, Pounds of Prevention

Authors Glenn Gaessar (Big Fat Lies) and John Alton (Living Qigong) discuss fitness's role in preventative medicine.

Atlantic Coast Athletic Center, Albemarle Square

2 – 3:30 p.m.

Cooking Up Stories

Food makes a plot thicken according to authors Thomas Fox Averill (Secrets of the Tsil Café), Judith Ryan Hendricks (Bread Alone: A Novel), Colette Rossant (Memories of a Lost Egypt) and Sara Mansfield Taber (Bread of Three Rivers). (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

The biography of the first black female millionaire with her great, great granddaughter A'Lelia Bundles.

First Baptist Church

Lewis & Clark: The Trip Started Here!

With a slide show by photographer Sam Abell (Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery). Former mayor Kay Slaughter will discuss plans for the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia. Jane Henley, President of the National Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, will discuss the bicentennial commemoration 2003-2007.

Vinegar Hill Theater

Writing and Illustrating: The Process.

With McGuffey Art Center resident members Bob Anderson, Debra Fabrizzi, Robin Braun and Marion Reynolds.

McGuffey Art Center

Of Shmattas and Smiles.

With authors Lawrence Epstein (The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America), Edward Cohen (The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi) and Stella Suberman (The Jew Store).

New Dominion Bookshop

Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to Canon

Author Cynthia Peters reflects on the richness of Deaf American Culture (ASL / Deaf Culture Lecture Series).

UVa McLeod Hall Auditorium

Carolina African American Writers' Collective

Group reading with poets Lenard D. Moore, L. Theresa Church, Paula White Jackson and Odessa Shaw, Jr.

Quality Community Council

Novels in a Landscape

A reading and discussion of place with authors Andrea O'Reilly Herrera (The Pearl of the Antilles), Donna Gershten (Kissing the Virgin's Mouth) and Michael Parker (Towns Without Rivers).

Barnes & Noble

Book signing

With Homer Hickam (Rocket Boys)

Waldenbooks

The Southern Road

Slideshow of the back road wonders of North Carolina and Virginia with photographer Charlie Curtis (featured in Southern Cultures).

Northside Library

4 – 5:30 p.m.

The Darker Face of the Earth

Selected, staged reading from Rita Dove's play, a nineteenth century retelling of the Oedipus myth. Directed by Teresa Dowell-Vest.

Live Arts Theater

Actor to Activist

Dennis Weaver discusses his memoir All the World's a Stage.

Culbreth Theatre

Art in the Blood

Faith Andrews Bedford (The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson ) and Blair Fuller (Art in the Blood) discuss the artist. (WMRA)

City Council Chambers

Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters and the Power of Empathy.

With clinical psychologist and author Martha Manning (Mental Health Association).

McIntire Room, Central Library

Island Voices from the Hispanic Caribbean

Dominican and Puerto Rican writers Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, Avelino Stanley, Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni and Miriam González present their most recent works.

Village School

Striking Gold

Reading by dazzling novelists Judy Goldman (The Slow Way Back) and Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil).

New Dominion Bookshop

A Journey of Unexpected Joy

Authors Lori Hickman (Living in My Skin), William Woodwell, Jr. (Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss and Survival) and Mark Batshaw (When Your Child Has a Disability) discuss life with a special needs child (Region Ten).

Region Ten, Meadowcreek Center

Pressing Matters

A panel discussion on artists, books and contemporary letterpress printing including Johanna Drucker, Debra Fabrizzi and Josef Beery.

McGuffey Art Center

6 – 7:30 p.m.

Festival Authors' Reception

A gala with wine and hors d'oeuvres hosted by authors Mary Lee Settle and Homer Hickam. All participating authors invited, tickets $25. Call 434-924-3296.

UVa Carr's Hill

6:15 – 7:45 p.m.

A Time to Speak

Memoirist Joyce Allan tells about five generations of incest and pedophilia with over 100 interviews on this taboo topic. Moderated by Roberta Culbertson.

City Council Chambers

8 – 9:30 p.m.

Southern Storytellers

With Lewis Nordan (Boy with Loaded Gun) and Homer Hickam (October Sky).

Culbreth Theatre

The Wiz

Dorothy gets her groove back… afropalooza … somewhere over the rainbow coalition… take in this ghetto-fabulous classic adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. For tickets, call 434-977-4177.

Live Arts Theater

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