Program - VABook! 2006

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Friday, March 24

10 a.m.

That's Showbiz: Lives up in Lights

With Margo Jefferson (On Michael Jackson), Peter Levinson (Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way), and Edward McPherson (Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat). Moderated by Digby Diehl.
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street

Race in America

With Nick Kotz (Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America) and Sheryll Cashin (The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream). Moderated by Faith Childs. (Event sponsored by Archipelago.org)
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street

Foreign Worlds, Dangerous Settings

With Masha Hamilton (The Distance Between Us), Leora Skolkin-Smith (Edges: O Israel, O Palestine), and Uzodinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nations).
New Dominion
404 E. Main Street

Dark Humor: A Fiction Panel

Fiction for the satirically inclined with Kurtis Davidson (What the Shadow Told Me), N.M. Kelby (Whale Season), and Richard Galli (Of Rice and Men).
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

Family Sagas

Jennifer Haigh (Baker Towers), Daniela Kuper (Hunger and Thirst), Carter Taylor Seaton (Father's Troubles).
Barnes & Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center

11 a.m.

On the Beat: Political Journalism

Longtime political journalist Jules Witcover presents his memoir, The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch.
Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road

Noon

Lives in Letters: Author Biographies

With Marion Rodgers (Mencken: The American Iconoclast), Suzanne Marrs (Eudora Welty: A Biography), Tom Nolan (Ross Macdonald: A Biography), and Barbara Burkhardt (William Maxwell: A Literary Life).
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street

Book Club Selection: A Sunday In June

Author Phyllis Alesia Perry (A Sunday in June) tells the story of three sisters who can see into the future, feel the pain of the past, and wrap themselves around your heart. (African American Authors Book Club)
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street

Museum Pieces: Gravity Lunch

This year's "Gravity Lunch" explores fiction set in museums Mary Kay Zuravleff (The Bowl Is Already Broken) and Matt Bondurant (The Third Translation). Visit http://gravity-lounge.com/store/ to pre-order turkey, roast beef and vegetarian option. Includes sandwich, chips, fruit, dessert and drink for $10 including tax.
Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street

Found Families: A Fiction Reading

The search for belonging with Judith Hendricks (The Baker's Apprentice), Dave King (The Ha-Ha), and Michael Parker (If You Want Me to Stay).
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

Contemporary Literature of India and Pakistan

A brief introduction to the current literary scene of South Asia by Mehr Farooqi, Robert A. Hueckstedt, and Peter Hook. Readings of new translations from Hindi and Urdu, two major literary languages of the region, and time for discussion. (UVa Center for South Asian Studies)
UVa Rotunda
UVa Central Grounds

Individual Voices

Joel Agee (In the House of My Fear), Natania Rosenfeld (Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf), and Katherine McNamara (Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska). (Archipelago.org)
UVa Wilson Hall Auditorium (Room 402)
UVa Central Grounds

Wild Things: Nature Nonfiction

Getting back to nature with Bibi Wein (The Way Home), Jim Minick (Finding a Clear Path), John Leland (Aliens in the Back Yard), and Marlene A. Condon (The Nature Friendly Garden).
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
1125 Emmet Street

2 p.m.

Gathering Evidence: Solving True Crimes

With Diane Fanning (Gone Forever: A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal and Murder), Noreen Renier (A Mind for Murder: The Real-Life Files of a Psychic Investigator), and Jefferson Bass (Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab / The Body Farm).
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street

Jewish Men and the Novel

Andrew Furman (Alligators May Be Present), Edward Schwarzschild (Responsible Men), and Roy Hoffman (Chicken Dreaming Corn) will discuss Jewish male protagonists in their novels.
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street

Who's Flying the Film? Cinema Panel

David Kipen (The Schreiber Theory) and Ron Hogan (The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!: American Films of the 1970s) discuss what makes great films and golden eras of cinema. Moderated by Digby Diehl.
Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street

New Asian American Poetry

With Sarah Gambito (Matadora), Mong-Lan (Why is the Edge Always Windy?), and Vijay Seshadri (The Long Meadow). (Tupelo Press, local poetry publisher, and Kundiman, the NYC-based Asian American poetry organization).
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

The Map That Named America: Cartography

Seymour I. Schwartz, Ph.D., discusses his book, America's Baptism, recounting the history and intrigues relating to the map that named America.
UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library
UVa Central Grounds

American Assassins: Murder and the Search for Justice

Thomas Wolf and Patricia Bryan (Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland) and James L. Swanson (Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer)
The Student Bookstore (on the Corner)
1515 University Avenue

Reading Groups and Book Clubs

Masha Hamilton (The Distance Between Us), Sheila Curran (Diana
Lively Is Falling Down), Matthew Sharpe (The Sleeping Father), and bookseller Robert Segedy chat about lively book discussions. Sponsored and moderated by Reading Group Choices publisher Barbara Drummond Mead.
Barnes & Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center

Travel with a Twist

Extraordinary expeditions with Sam Apple (Schlepping Through the Alps), Devyani Saltzman (Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking), David Wolman (A Left-Hand Turn Around the World), and Franz Wisner (Honeymoon with My Brother). Moderated by Bella Stander.
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
1125 Emmet Street

Dining at Monticello: Behind the Scenes at Jefferson's Table

Culinary historian Damon Lee Fowler will take us inside Dining at Monticello. Feast on new scholarship and photographs, with essays, and recipes converted from the Jefferson family manuscripts. (Monticello)
The Jefferson Library
1329 Kenwood Farm, Rt 53 (1/2 mile past Monticello)

4 p.m.

Night and Day: Nonfiction Panel

A. Roger Ekirch (At Day's Close: Night in Times Past) and Michael Downing (Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time) discuss buried facts of how we have spent (and bent) time.
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street

Tagteams: Collaborative Writing

With Jefferson Bass (Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, Carved in Bone), Kurtis Davidson (Kurt Ayau and David Rachels, What the Shadow Told Me), and Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight.
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street

The Truth About Fact and Fiction

Being true to a story with Peter Quinn (Hour of the Cat), James Morrow (The Last Witchfinder), Daniela Kuper (Hunger and Thirst), and Julian Rubinstein (The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber).
New Dominion
404 E. Main Street

Man, Woman, and Words: A Reading

Poet Vivian Shipley (Hardboot) and novelist Robert Schultz (The Madhouse Nudes) read work that explores the experience of being a body in the world. (UVa Peters Rushton Fund)
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

Graduate Student Presentations

Brief talks by UVa graduate students Peter Capuano ("The First Serialized
Number of Thackeray's Vanity Fair"), Fran Connor ("Manuscript, Print,
and Coterie Authorship in the Poetry of Katherine Philips"), Wesley Raabe
("Uncle Tom's Cabin as Newspaper Serial"), and Ania Wieckowski
("Accidentals in Dickens's Dombey and Son"). (Bibliographical Society of UVa)
UVa Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
UVa Central Grounds

Celebrate Women Writers' Reception

Join us for a joyous celebration of women authors! This UVa Women's Center-sponsored event is open to all and brings together local writers, University authors, students and Virginia Festival of the Book participants. R.S.V.P. to 434-982-2911
Colonnade Club, Solarium Room
Pavillion VII, The Lawn

At War, At Home: Books on the Military

Kristin Henderson (While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront) and Linda Robinson (Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces).
Barnes & Noble
1035A Emmet Street, Barracks Road Shopping Center

My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After Fifty

Abigail Trafford is the author of My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After Fifty, full of stories of people who are defining their "next chapter" after launching kids and career wind-down. (Senior Center Inc.)
Senior Center
1180 Pepsi Place

6 p.m.

Strange Worlds: Exploring Fantasy and Horror

Paul Witcover (Tumbling After), Kevin Brockmeier (Brief History of the Dead), Brandon Massey (Within the Shadows), and River Jordan (The Messenger of Magnolia Street).
McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street

Captains of Industry: Truth, Consequences and Other Commodities

Join prolific writers George Garrett (Empty Bed Blues) and Michael Mewshaw (If You Could See Me Now) exploring their new books, the teller and the tale.
New Dominion
404 E. Main Street

Under the Microscope: Biology, Technology, and Society

Ann Parson (The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine), Madeline Drexler (Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections), Ronald Bailey (Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution).
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

The Influence of Sandra Day O'Connor

Legal news commentator and reporter Joan Biskupic, discussing her new biography, Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice. (Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression )
Abbott Center Auditorium, Darden School
UVa North Grounds

The Practice of Presence

Patty de Llosa, author of The Practice of Presence, shares her experiences of seeking guidance in five spiritual paths, each one complementary to the others, calling on the body, mind and feeling in unique ways that can lead one to their inner truth.
Quest
619 West Main Street

L'America: Conversation with Novelist Martha McPhee

A reading from L'America, McPhee's latest novel, in an elegant Italian setting, followed by discussion with Italianist Christina Ball on Italy as an inspiration for writing. Wines by the glass and light appetizers. (Ecco Italy)
Verity Blue
406 W. Main Street

Comfort Food and Stressful Times

Dolores Kostelni creates a comfort food from The Potluck Cookbook while Jon and Robin Robertson prepare you for the worst circumstances with Apocalypse Chow, how cooks can survive a disaster. (In the Kitchen)
Ferguson's
2325 Seminole Trail (29 North)

Flexing Your Soul

Co-authors Jalieh Milani and Alessandra Shepard, Ph.D. (Flexing Your Soul) discuss the body as a physical expression of the individual soul, demonstrating how personal emotional history creates the individual body type.
Starr Hill Gallery
709 West Main Street

7 p.m.

Independent Media in a Time of War: Amy Goodman

Host of "Democracy Now" and author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Amy Goodman critiques the commercial news media and discusses the importance independent media. (Amnesty International)
McLeod Hall Auditorium
202 15th Street SW

Where Was God During the Tsunami?

With David Bentley Hart, author of The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God During the Tsunami?
Holiday Inn
1901 Emmet Street North

8 p.m.

Gathering Ground: African American Poets from Page to Stage

This reading presents Fellows from Cave Canem's renowned writing retreat in connection with Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. Their work incorporates a range of styles, from spoken word to narrative to lyric.
Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street

Murder and Mayhem: An Evening with Mystery Writers

Michael Connelly (The Lincoln Lawyer), Jeffery Deaver (The Twelfth Card), Karin Slaughter (Faithless), and Paula Woods (Strange Bedfellows). Moderated by Willetta Heising (Detecting Men, Detecting Women).
Culbreth Theatre
UVa Central Grounds
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Women, Family and Work: A Candid Discussion

With Barbara Ehrenreich (Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream), Andrea Buchanan (It's a Boy / It's a Girl), and Miriam Peskowitz (The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars).
UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds

10 p.m.

The Hamiltons and Acoustic Groove Trio

Enjoy live music at Gravity Lounge and help send books to the Gulf Coast. Admission for this event is a donation of books for libraries struggling after the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street

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