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Program - VABook! 2005
Saturday, March 19
10 a.m. — 3 p.m.
StoryFest: Book Events or Kids
Book-related events for young readers and soon to be readers: storytellers,
children's authors, and book crafts. More details in the Youth & Family section.
Water Street Terrace, Charlottesville Ice Park
Enter 219 Water Street
10 a.m.
America in the Balance
With Geoffrey R. Stone (Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the
Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism), Hank Shugart (How the
Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature) and
Tom Miller (Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink). Moderated by Katherine McNamara.
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
Crime Wave: Thrills and Chills
With Benjamin Schutz (The Mongol Reply), Sallie Bissell (Call
the Devil by His Oldest Name), John Hanny (Asleep at the Wheel),
and John Case, a.k.a. Carolyn and Jim Hougan (The Murder Artist). Moderated
by Tom Nolan. Omni, Ash Lawn-Highland Room
235 W. Main Street
Agents Roundtable
With Simon Lipskar (Writers House), Maria Massie (Lippincott Massie McQuilkin)
and Bill Gladstone (Waterside Productions), and Deborah Clarke Grosvenor (Grosvenor
Literary Agency). Moderated by Bob Friedman (Hampton Roads Publishing). Omni,
Ballroom A.
235 W. Main Street
Buzz Your Book
Authors M.J. Rose (The Halo Effect) and Douglas Clegg (Nightmare
House) brainstorm publicity avenues for books you bring them. Omni,
James Monroe Room
235 W. Main Street
Crime Wave: Murder in Style
Sleuths with interesting vocations, featuring Jerrilyn Farmer (Perfect
Sax), Susan S. James (The Belles of Solace Glen), Susan McBride
(The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder), Laura Durham (Better Off
Wed), and Ellen Byerrum (Designer Knockoff). Moderated by Willetta
Heising. Omni, Preston Room
235 W. Main Street
"Walt Whitman, An American, One of the Roughs, a Kosmos": Whitman's Self-Invention
Presentations by David Kirby (The Ha-Ha), William Logan (Reputations
of the Tongue, Desperate Measures), and Heather Morton (Walt Whitman Archive)
. UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library
Auditorium
UVa Central Grounds
The East Wing: First Ladies’ Influence in the White House
With Barbara Perry (Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier),
Richard Côté (The Life of Dolley Madison), Nancy Beck Young (Lou
Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady), and John Robert Greene (Betty Ford:
Candor and Courage in the White House). UVA Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds
Generation Gaps: Fiction Reading
Novels of intergenerational conflict with Judy Goldman (Early Leaving),
Ayelet Waldman (Daughter’s Keeper), and Christopher Tilghman (Roads
of the Heart). Barnes & Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center
Noon
Myth, Legend, History, and Truth: The Representation and Misrepresentation of Virginia Indians Beginning With Pocahontas
With Chief Stephen R. Adkins (Chickahominy), Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo,
Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat), and authors
Helen Rountree (Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough), and Camilla Townsend
(Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma). Moderated by Suzan Shown Harjo
(Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee). (VFH and Virginia Council on Indians) City
Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
Crime Wave Luncheon with Linda Fairstein
Join Linda Fairstein, the author of Entombed, for lunch. Tickets are
$40, call 434-924-6890. Limited seating available. Omni,
Salons B-C
235 W. Main Street
The How-to of Screenwriting
With A. J. Jacobs (The Know-It-All), Meg Wolitzer (Fitzgerald
Did It: The Writer's Guide to Mastering the Screenplay) and Matthew Friedman
(Moving, All of Creation). Omni, Ballroom A
235 W. Main Street
Poetry Editors Tell All: Publishing Panel
Tips on getting your poetry published with Kate Gale (Editor-Publisher,
Red Hen Press), Jeffrey Levine (Editor-Publisher, Tupelo Press),
and James Reiss (former editor, Miami University Press). Gravity
Lounge
103 S. First Street
Which Publisher--Regional or National?
Do books with “regional” appeal benefit more by staying local or
going national? A roundtable on reaching the right audience with Shannon Ravenel
(Editor, Algonquin’s New Stories of the South series), Ross Howell
(Publisher, Howell Press), and Pete Wyrick (Wyrick & Co.). Omni,
Preston Room
235 W. Main Street
Did the Modernists Get Rejection Slips?
Explore a journal’s historical, humorous correspondence with former editor
of POETRY magazine, Joseph Parisi (Dear Editor: A History of POETRY
in Letters). UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special
Collections Library Auditorium
UVa Central Grounds
Meditations on Culture: A Poetry Reading
Featuring David Kirby (The Ha-Ha) and William Logan (Macbeth in
Venice). UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds
Books in the Garden
A relaxing setting to dish about books with Karen Siplin (Such a Girl),
Stacy Hawkins Adams (Speak to My Heart), and E. Ethelbert Miller (How
We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love). (The Links, Inc)Garden
of Sheba
609 E. Market Street
Shop Talk: Books at a Barber's Shop
With David Anthony Durham (Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal).
(The Links, Inc.)Natural Hair Design
703 W. Main Street
2 p.m.
That's Wife!
With Meredith Broussard (The Dictionary of Failed Relationships),
Karen Houppert (Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military—for Better
or Worse), Anne Kingston (The Meaning of Wife) and Meg Wolitzer
(The Position; The Wife). Moderated by Bella Stander. City
Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
Crime Wave: A Time and Place for Murder
With Rhys Bowen (For the Love of Mike), Rosemary Martin (It’s
Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder), S.W. Hubbard (Swallow the Hook), Rupert
Holmes (Swing), and Kit Ehrman (Cold Burn). Moderated by Willetta
Heising. Omni, Ash Lawn-Highland Room
235 W. Main Street
Crime Wave: Is This in My Job Description?
With Stephen White (Missing Persons), Con LeHane (What Goes Around
Comes Around), Kevin Guilfoile (Cast of Shadows), Chris Freeburn
(Dying for Redemption), and Michelle Blake (The Book of Light).
Moderated by Tom Nolan. Omni, Ballroom A
235 W. Main Street
Blogging and Virtual Tours
Plug-in and let the plugging begin! Web-based book promotion with Kevin Smokler
(Bookmark Now, forthcoming) and M. J. Rose (Buzz Your Book).
Omni, James Monroe Room
235 W. Main Street
The Holocaust: Unfinished Past, Unfinished Future
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat (Imperfect Justice) discusses the completion
of his historic $8 billion Holocaust compensation negotiations and their implications
for Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, and other contemporary problems. (Fairness.com)
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street
"Do I Contradict Myself?" Who Is the Real Whitman?
Presentations by Robert Creeley (If I Were Writing This), Stephen
Cushman (Cussing Lesson), and Ed Folsom (Walt Whitman: The Measure
of His Song). UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special
Collections Library Auditorium
UVa Central Grounds
Remembering the Civil War: Capitals at War, Triumph and Tragedy in Washington and Richmond
With Ernest Furgurson (Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War).
(UVa School of Continuing and Professional Studies) UVa
Zehmer Hall
104 Midmont Lane
Odysseys, Illumination, and Forbidden Tales: Three Jewish Novelists
Pearl Abraham (The Seventh Beggar), Steve Stern (The Angel of
Forgetfulness), and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)
will discuss their forays into the sometimes fantastical worlds of Jewish life
and thought. Barnes & Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center
4 p.m.
How We Measure: Science Redefining the World
With Richard Panek (The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search
for Hidden Universes) and Scott Huler (Defining the Wind: The Beaufort
Scale, and How a Nineteenth Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry).
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
Crime Wave: Women at Work
Carol Higgins Clark (Popped), Laura Lippman (By a Spider’s
Thread), Jenny Siler (Flashback), and Donna Andrews (Owls Well
that Ends Well). Moderated by Andy Straka. Omni, Salon
B
235 W. Main Street
Making the Breakout Novel
With Kate Walbert (Our Kind) and her agent Maria Massie, and with
Kevin Guilfoile (Cast of Shadows) and his agent Simon Lipskar. Moderated
by Bella Stander. Omni, Ballroom A
235 W. Main Street
Crime Wave Panel: Clued In
With Nero Blanc, a.k.a. Cordelia Biddle and Steve Zettler (Wrapped Up in
Crosswords), Christopher Klim (The Winner's Circle, Everything
Burns), and Tracy Dunham (Wishful Sinful). Moderated by Bethanne
Patrick. Omni, James Monroe Room
235 W. Main Street
Writing Children's Books
With Kate Gale (African Sleeping Beauty), Jane Cutler (Rose and
Riley, Common Sense and Fowls), and Brian Jud (Shandi Finnessey's The
Furrtails). Charlottesville Ice Park
230 W. Main Street
A Conversation with Bob Edwards
With Bob Edwards, radio host and author of Edward R. Murrow and the Birth
of Broadcast Journalism. (Sponsored by WMRA - Your NPR Stations). Albemarle
County Office Building
401 McIntire Road
Remembering the Civil War: Assessing the Confederate High Command
With Gary Gallagher (Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the
Confederate High Command). UVa Zehmer Hall
104 Midmont Lane
UVa Drama Department Annual Keenan Lecturer: Rupert Holmes
Playwright, novelist, and composer-songwriter Rupert Holmes (Swing)
discusses his play, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, coming in April as a
production of UVa’s drama department. UVa Culbreth
Theatre
UVa Central Grounds
Family Makeovers
Novels of families struggling for normalcy with Dean Bakopoulos (Please
Don't Come Back From the Moon), Ashley Warlick (Seek the Living),
and Porter Shreve (Drives Like A Dream). Barnes
& Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center
6 p.m.
Festival Authors Reception
Join hosts Geraldine Brooks (March) and Tony Horwitz (Blue Latitudes).
All VABook! participants invited, tickets for the public are $25 per person. Call
434-924-3296. UVa Carr's Hill
UVa Central Grounds
8 p.m.
Robert Creeley Reads His Poetry
Join poet Robert Creeley (If I Were Writing This, Life & Death) for
a poetry reading. UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds
The Self and the Story: A Headline Event
With authors Esmeralda Santiago (The Turkish Lover) and Jonathan Safran
Foer (Everything Is Illuminated). (Sponsored by The Daily Progress, with
support of the South Atlantic Humanities Center)UVa Culbreth
Theatre
UVa Central Grounds
WordStage Open Mic Poetry
E. L. Farrell's WordStage Poetry TOUR (wordstage.net) — Five Feature
Poets and Open-mic! Hosted by Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam winner Éric
L Farrell; Absolutely everyone is welcome to present poetry about anything, or
just listen. No profanity (we be creative). Sign-ups 7:30 p.m. Charlottesville
Ice Park
230 W. Main Street
Jan Smith at Gravity Lounge
Enjoy the music of Jan Vogelsang Smith in a relaxed, book-filled environment.
Cover charge is $5. No advance tickets or reservations required. Gravity
Lounge
103 S. First Street
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