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Friday, March 2610 a.m.Chronicling a Deadly Century: NonfictionEpic events explored with authors Peter Balakian (Tigris Burning), who will discuss his book on the Armenian genocide, and Donovan Webster (The Burma Road), who will describe the making of the Burma Road in World War II. City Council Chambers Getting There from Here: A Travel PanelTraveling explorations off-the-beaten-track with authors Mark Rotella (Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria), John Pollack (Cork Boat), John Lane (Chatooga:Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River). New Dominion Bookshop The Fiction of Friction: The Politically ChargedWith authors Aimee Liu (Flash House), Nick Taylor (Politically Inspired), David L. Robbins (Last Citadel), Tony Grooms (Bombingham), and Michael Lowenthal (Avoidance). Gravity Lounge Crafting the Past: A Fiction Panel DiscussionWith Thomas Mallon (Bandbox), Robert Kaplow (Me and Orson Welles), Dan O'Brien (A Contract Surgeon) and Liam Callanan (The Cloud Atlas). UVa Bookstore Toddlers: Parenting PanelTales of toddlers and toddler-tamers with co-editors Jennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson (Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers) and author Jennifer Margulis (Toddler). C’ville Coffee U.S.-Russian RelationsWith author James Goldgeier (Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War). UVa Miller Center 12 p.m.When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal HistoriesEditor Bernestine Singley, Dr. Robert Jensen and Les Payne discuss When Race Becomes Real, Singley's collection of personal stories by thirty of the nation's most established and emerging black and white authors. (African American Authors Book Club of C'ville) City Council Chambers Family Fallout: Novels Hitting HomeExplore family struggles and secrets in novels by Elizabeth Nunez (Grace), N.M.Kelby (Theater of the Stars), and Roxana Robinson (Sweetwater) McIntire Room, Central Library Spanish Recognitions: Mary Lee SettleAuthor Mary Lee Settle will read from and discuss her latest travel narrative, Spanish Recognitions, The Road from the Past. New Dominion Bookshop Through the National Geographic LensPhotographers Sam Abell, Jim Blair and Chris Johns and editor Leah Bendavid-Val, will discuss the making of Through the Lens: National Geographic's Greatest Photographs with moderator Susan Tyler Hitchcock. Vinegar Hill New York New York: Big Apple Fiction LunchStart spreading the news about authors Kyle Smith (Love Monkey), Greg Williams (Boomtown), and Jiro Adachi (The Island of Bicycle Dancers). Call ahead to reserve a box lunch from Gravity's cafe, turkey or vegetarian sandwich: 434-977-5590. Gravity Lounge Icons of the Twentieth Century: BiographiesWith biographers Joseph Blotner (Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner), Patrick McGilligan (Alfred Hitchcock), Stefan Kanfer (Lucille Ball) and Dean King (Patrick O'Brian) UVa Alderman Library, McGregor Room Emerging Poets: A ReadingWith Karenne Wood (Markings on Earth), Rebecca Lilly (You Want to Sell Me a Small Antique), and Jon Pineda (Birthmark). UVa Bookstore Classic Characters Recast: Reading and PanelNew fiction reprising fictional and living characters who haunt our imaginations with Louis Bayard (Tiny Tim: Mr. Timothy), Katharine Weber (Little Women: The Little Women), Dennis Burges (Arthur Conan Doyle: Grave's Gate) Barnes & Noble Books as ArtPiedmont Virginia Community College art students examine 'the book' as art. Book Arts is a growing and exciting form of artistic expression, allowing artists to explore our relationships with books as individuals and as a society. With Connie Pippin and Laurie Duxbury. Dickinson Building 2 p.m.Africana Woman: A National Geographic CelebrationAuthors Dorothy Height, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, and Cynthia Jacobs Carter comment on Africana Woman: Her Story Through Time, a compendium of female figures from the African Diaspora. Moderated by poet Kendra Hamilton. City Council Chambers Novelists On Their Movies: A PanelThe good, the bad, and the ugly truth about dealing with Hollywood: Josephine Humphreys (Rich in Love), Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza), Madison Jones (An Exile--I Walk the Line), Richard Bausch (The Last Good Time) and Robert Bausch (Almighty Me--Bruce Almighty). Moderated by R.H.W. Dillard McIntire Room, Central Library In My Opinion: Columnists Discuss Their WorkColumnists Barbara Rich (Charlottesville Observer), Bryan McKenzie (The Daily Progress) and Bill Lohmann (Richmond Times-Dispatch) talk about opinion column writing. (Daily Progress) Village School Short Stories: A ReadingWith authors Madison Smartt Bell (Barking Man), Michael Knight (Goodnight, Nobody), and Krista McGruder (Beulah Land). New Dominion Bookshop Language, Landscape and Identity: A Poetry ReadingWith authors Fred Chappell (Family Gathering), Henry Taylor (The Flying Change), and Joy Harjo (How We Became Human). UVa Bookstore Book Reviewers Up Close & PersonalA discussion with Michael Dirda, senior editor, Washington Post Book World; Mark Rotella, forecasts editor, Publishers Weekly; Kyle Smith, associate editor, People; and independent critics Katharine Weber and Louis Bayard. Moderated by Bella Stander. UVa Alderman Library, McGregor Room Readings from Contemporary Literature of India and PakistanA reading of recent, as yet unpublished translations from Hindi and Urdu of some of the more exciting current literature from India and Pakistan. (UVa Center for South Asian Studies) UVa Minor Hall Rm. 125 Personal Tales of World War IIJames Hornfischer (The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors), George Loving (Woodbine Red Leader), and James A. Huston (Biography of a Battalion). (Senior Center, Inc.) Senior Center Writing AppalachiaCrystal Wilkinson (Water Street), Gretchen Moran Laskas (The Midwife's Tale), and Billy Ed Wheeler (Star of Appalachia). Moderated by Rob Merritt. Barnes & Noble 1035A Emmet Street The Known World: Fiction ReadingEdward P. Jones, author of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, The Known World. UVa Miller Center 4 p.m.Tips for Hip Chicks: Etiquette BookAuthor Anna Skinner (How to Pee Standing Up) discusses her etiquette book for young women preparing from entry into the world. Jane's Attic Making a Museum into a BookThe story behind On The Move, National Geographic's book-companion to the Smithsonian's new exhibition of American transportation history. Editor Barbara Brownell-Grogan and co-authors Janet Davidson and Michael Sweeney discuss the simultaneous creation of an exhibit and a book. City Council Chambers Intrigues of the U.N.Explore superpowers, secret agents, wartime allies and enemies, and their quest for a peaceful world with author Stephen Schlesinger (Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations). McIntire Room, Central Library Loved and Lost: Fiction Reading and DiscussionAuthors Leslie Pietrzyk (A Year and a Day), Denise Orenstein (Unseen Companion), M. J. Rose (Sheet Music) explore characters struggling through grief. New Dominion Bookshop Scientific Discoveries and How They Change Us: A PanelWith authors Mark Essig (Edison and the Electric Chair), Robin Marantz Henig (Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution) and Carl Zimmer (Soul Made Flesh). (Biotage) Village School The Known World: Fiction ReadingEdward P. Jones, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel,The Known World. UVa Bookstore Making the Play: Sports StoriesWith author Doug Hornig (The Boys of October: How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodied Baseball's Ideals), Tommy Reamon (Rough Diamonds) and Bob Kuska (Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball). The Student Bookstore The Illustrated Illustrious Life of Warren ChappellBibliophile David Vander Meulen celebrates book designer Warren Chappell, whose work includes Julia Child's cookbooks, Sartre's novels, and the Winnie-the-Pooh series. In conjunction with hands-on printing at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. (Bibliographical Society of UVa) UVa Alderman Library, McGregor Room Of Fate, Heaven, and Memory: Poetry ReadingWith poets Peter Balakian (Black Dog of Fate), Ellen Bryant Voigt (Shadow of Heaven), and Dave Smith (The Wick of Memory). Barnes & Noble Cookbooks: Ideas to PrintWith the chef of Philadelphia's City Tavern Walter Staib (City Tavern Cookbook), CiCi Williamson (The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book: Recipes, People, Places), and syndicated writer Olwen Woodier (Apple Cookbook, Corn) discuss how cookbooks are made. (In the Kitchen) C'ville Coffee 6 p.m.Brown v. Board: They Closed Our SchoolsExplore the special case of Prince Edward County, where public schools closed for five years (1959-1964) rather than opting for desegregation. With Drs. Gerald and Vonita White Foster (Silent Trumpets of Justice : Integration's Failure in Prince Edward County), John Stokes, and Dorothy Holcomb. (WMRA, Bank of America) City Council Chambers Beyond: Science Fiction and Fantasy WritersWith authors Kristine Smith (Contact Imminent, Jani Kilian series), Mindy Klasky (The Glasswrights' Test), Dennis Danvers (The Watch), Tee Morris (MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana), and Tony Ruggiero (Team of Darkness). McIntire Room, Central Library The Past is Not Dead: Literary Historical Fiction ReadingWith authors Josephine Humphreys (Nowhere Else on Earth), Allen Wier (reading from "Cloud of Witnesses"), John Gregory Brown (Audubon's Watch), and Sophy Burnham (The Treasure of Montségur). New Dominion Bookshop Readings in Southern FictionMadison Jones (Herod's Wife), Barry Hannah (Yonder Stands Your Orphan), Ellen Douglas (Truth) and Walter Sullivan (Sojourn of a Stranger). Moderated by Michael Knight. Village School CyberSupport: Online CommunitiesMeet writers who foster readership online with Peter Manseau (KillingTheBuddha.com), Katherine McNamara (Archipelago.org), Gretchen Moran Laskas (Readerville.com), and Rob Merritt (NantahalaReview.org). Jane's Attic Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian HomelandDeborah Bird Rose (Country of the Heart) and co-author Margy Daiyi lead an adventure for the imagination and the soul as you are welcomed into the country, culture, lives and stories of the MakMak clan. (Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection) Second Street Gallery Buried Secrets: Uncovering a MassacreVictoria Sanford, Senior Research Fellow at the VFH, will discuss her new book (Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala) examining the search for justice and healing by Maya communities in Guatemala following more than a decade of massacres, displacement and murder. (Amnesty International, Group 157) UVa Bookstore Exploring the Next World NowFrom the psychic underground of science, Michael Grosso gives a report on the evidence for life after death. If there is a "next world," Grosso seeks to open doors to what may lie beyond. Quest Bookshop 8 p.m.Brown v. Board: Its Impact TodayBrown's legacy in law, education and race relations with University of Richmond Law School Dean Rodney Smolla, Yale Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry Valerie Maholmes, and UVa Dean of African American Affairs M. Rick Turner. Moderated by David Bearinger, VFH. (WMRA, Bank of America) City Council Chambers Late Night Horrors: A PanelHorror authors Doug Clegg (The Hour Before Dark), L. Marie Wood (Crescendo), Robert Randisi (Curtains of Blood) and Marthayn Pelegrimas (work in Borderlands) discuss the art of spine-tingling. McIntire Room, Central Library The Literary West: A PanelWriters discuss the culture and literature of the contemporary American West,
with Joy Harjo (How We Became Human: Poems), Diane Smith (Letters
from Yellowstone), Judy Blunt (Breaking Clean), Debra Nystrom (Torn
Sky), and Dan O'Brien (The Contract Surgeon). Moderated by Jim Robbins.
(University of Virginia) Spanish Fiction Reading: Antonio Benítez-RojoCelebrated Cuban author Antonio Benítez-Rojo will read and discuss his Spanish-language work, "Woman in Battle Dress," accompanied by an English translator. (South Atlantic Humanities Center, UVa Caribbean Literature Archive, UVa Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) Wilson Hall, Room 301 UVa Central Grounds Contemporary Life from A Shamanic PerspectiveTom Crockett (Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism) will explore five ancient principles for living a more spiritually balanced life. Quest Bookshop
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