VABook! 2007 Headliners Announced

(Charlottesville, VA…February 9) The thirteenth annual Virginia Festival of the Book is pleased to announce the sponsored headline events for the March 21-25 celebration of books and literacy in Charlottesville.

View the online interactive list of Headline Events

Wednesday, March 21

Business Breakfast: Fun Is Good
Michael Veeck, minor-league baseball team president and and co-author of Fun is Good: How to Create Joy and Passion in Your Workplace and Career.
7:30 AM Omni Hotel, 235 West Main Street (order $25 tickets online).
(sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Crown BMW of Charlottesville, YellowBook)

Opening Ceremony: Caroline Preston
Get in the Gatsby mood with hits from the 1920s by the Silvertones and author Caroline Preston (Gatsby's Girl). Contest winners and more.
Noon - Central JMRL Library, 201 E. Market Street
(sponsored by the VFH Center for the Book and The Big Read in Virginia)

Learning from War—Three Discussions
(sponsored by the University of Virginia Bookstore)

4:00 PM The Stories Not Being Told: War Letters editor Andrew Carroll
Andrew Carroll (Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War and Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Homefront in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families).

6:00 PM The Civil War: Lessons for Today's Wars
William Freehling (The Road to Disunion, Vol. II) and Peter Onuf (Nations, Markets and War: Modern History and the American Civil War)

8:00 PM Virginia's Civil War
Historian Ed Bearss (Fields of Honor).

Jim Trelease: The Motivational Magic of Reading Aloud
Author of the Read-Aloud Handbook.
7:30 PM (Repeated on March 22 at 10 a.m)
M. L. K. Jr. Performing Arts Center, 1400 Melbourne Road
(sponsored by the Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Endowment Fund)

Thursday, March 22

Festival Luncheon: Doug Marlette
Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of Kudzu, and novelist (Magic Time and The Bridge). Tickets $45. (Waitlist: vabook.org). Pre-luncheon music by The Flashbacks.
11:45 AM Omni Hotel 235 West Main Street
(sponsored by Wachovia)

Reconstructions: Fiction with Mark Childress and Donald McCaig
Donald McCaig (Canaan) and Mark Childress (One Mississippi)
8:00 PM UVa Bookstore 400 Emmet Street S
(sponsored by the Library of Virginia in celebration of the Virginia Literary Awards)

Friday, March 23

Murder in the Making: Mystery Writers
Lee Child (The Hard Way), Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club), Laura Lippman (No Good Deeds) and George Pelecanos (The Night Gardener).
8:00 PM Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Road
(sponsored by Albemarle County)

Interrogations: A Poetry Reading
Kevin Young (For the Confederate Dead) and David Wojahn (Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems.
8:00 PM UVa Bookstore, 400 Emmet Street S
(sponsored by the City of Charlottesville)

Saturday, March 24

Authors' Reception
Wine and hors d'oeuvres. Hosts: Lee Smith, Hal Crowther, and Earl Hamner. All participating authors invited. $25—see vabook.org.
6:00 PM UVa Carr's Hill

Transformations: An Evening of Fiction
Howard Norman (Devotion), Lee Smith (On Agate Hill), and Luis Alberto Urrea (The Hummingbird's Daughter).
8:00 PM Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Road
(sponsored by the Library of Virginia in celebration of the Virginia Literary Awards)

Sunday, March 25

Bob Rotella: The Golfer's Mind
Author of Golf is Not a Game of Perfect and The Golfer's Mind.
1:30 PM Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Road
(sponsored by Merrill Lynch)

Press Pass: From the White House to the World
Journalists Helen Thomas (Front Row at the White House; Watchdogs of Democracy), Margaret Kilgore (Remember to Laugh), Betty DeRamus (Forbidden Fruit), and Alicia Shepard (Woodward and Bernstein).
3:00 PM Albemarle County Office Building 401 McIntire Road
(sponsored by The Daily Progress)

The thirteenth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is free and open to the public at venues throughout Charlottesville. Visit www.vabook.org for more information.

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