Schedule By Topic

The Twain We Never Meet: Two Literary Historians

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

Explore the issues and times Twain wrote about with Christopher Krentz (Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth Century Literature) and David Rachels (Mark Twain's Civil War).

Life As We Know It: Novels of Change and Healing

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

With Virginia Boyd (One Fell Swoop), Therese Fowler (Souvenir) and Judy Merrill Larsen (All the Numbers).

Why We Write; What We Write

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

Wendy Devere-Austin (Dead on Cue), Tulley Holland (Moneybags), Frank Machovec (Divine Spark), Janet A. Martin (The Christmas Swap), Shri Henkel (365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Make).

Trying to Get it Right: Fiction About Marriage

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Jenny Gardiner (Sleeping with Ward Cleaver), James Collins (Beginner's Greek ), and Joshua Henkin (Matrimony) offer fictional perspectives of twenty-first century marriages.

Let's Talk Romance

Wed. March 26th, 2008 8:00 PM

Romance Writers Joanna Bourne, Mary Burton, Cathy Maxwell, and Patrice Michelle talk about their craft.

Wayward Sons: Fiction with Nathan Englander and Colm Toibin

Wed. March 26th, 2008 8:00 PM

Nathan Englander (The Ministry of Special Cases) and Colm Toibin (Mothers and Sons) explore characters grappling with the parent-child relationship.

Festival Luncheon: Jan Karon

Thu. March 27th, 2008 11:45 AM

Jan Karon, author of the Mitford series and the recent Home to Holly Springs, will discuss her books. Mood music in the Omni atrium by The Flashbacks. SOLD OUT.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Ballroom

Reading Group Choices

Thu. March 27th, 2008 12:00 PM

Barbara Mead (Reading Group Choices), James Collins (Beginner's Greek), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night, Ask Again Later), and Therese Fowler (Souvenir). Box lunches are available at Gravity Lounge. $8. For choices and to order, see www.gravity-lounge.com.

Across Time and Space: Fiction Capturing Personal and Public History

Thu. March 27th, 2008 2:00 PM

With Arthur Phillips, (Prague,  Angelica), Anne Landsman (The Rowing Lesson) and George Robert Minkoff (The Weight of Smoke).

High Tea with Jan Karon at Sage Moon Gallery

Thu. March 27th, 2008 4:00 PM

Enjoy high tea with Jan Karon, author of the Mitford Series, who will discuss her writing. Limited seating, SOLD OUT.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Tales of the Sea

Thu. March 27th, 2008 4:00 PM

Jay Worrall (Any Approaching Enemy: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars), George Robert Minkoff ("In the Land of Whispers" trilogy), and Neal Bascomb (Red Mutiny: Eleven Fatal Days of the Battleship Potemkin) on stories of the sea.

UVa Creative Writing Alumni Reading

Thu. March 27th, 2008 4:00 PM

Fiction and poetry with Taylor Antrim (The Headmaster Ritual), Aaron Baker (Mission Work), John McLaughlin (Run in the Fam'ly), Nicole Pekarske (Intermissa, Venus).

Fiction Favorites

Thu. March 27th, 2008 8:00 PM

With Adriana Trigiani (The Big Stone Gap series), Homer Hickam (Rocket Boys, Red Helmet), and Jill A. Davis (Ask Again Later, Girl's Poker Night.) Free tickets will be distributed one hour before the event. No reserved or pre-ordered tickets available.

Fiction at Work--Novels of the Working Life

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Mark Ethridge (Grievances), Saira Rao (Chambermaid), and Malcolm McPherson (Hocus Potus).

Katrina in Fact and Fiction

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Tony Dunbar (Tubby Meets Katrina), Ken Foster (The Dogs Who Found Me), and Neal Thompson (Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina).

Short Stories

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Cary Holladay (The Quick-Change Artist), Nin Andrews (Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane), and Gerald Duff (Fire Ants).

The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Four decades after Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man, he died leaving thousands of scattered notes in preparation for his second novel. For 14 years, two "literary detectives," John Callahan, Ph.D., and Adam Bradley, Ph.D., put the pieces together. Bradley will share the outcome.

McIntire Room

Families Coming Together: Fiction and Memoir

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

 With novelists Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey), Emilie Richards (Touching Stars)and memoirist Kim Reid (No Place Safe).

Living on the Edge: Cons and Characters

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

Michael Sims (Editor of new edition of Arsene Lupin's Gentleman Thief), Nicholas Griffin (Dizzy City), and Dallas Hudgens (Season of Gene) explore clever rogues in tense situations.

The Civil War in Fiction

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

With novels of the Civil War with Nick Taylor (The Disagreement), set in Charlottesville, and Peter Melman (Landsman), set in New Orleans and on the move during the War.

Forming American Identities: Southern Writers

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

The conclusion of a colloquia series, investigating how Southern history and culture affect and create our understanding of what it means to be an American. Casey Clabough, Deborah McDowell, and Lisa Russ Spaar discuss the works of Southern writers whose work they admire. Reception to follow.

Playing with Fire: Fiction Reading

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Explore the fiction of friction with Alan Cheuse (The Fires) and Martha Tod Dudman (Black Olives).

The Creative Mind: How Writers and Artists Invent the World

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Explore how creative minds have shaped and will continue to shape our lives with Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist), David Kirby (Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation), and Patricia Martin (Ren Gen: Renaissance Generation -- The Rise of the Cultural Consumer).

McIntire Room

Alternative Universes: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

David B. Coe (The Sorcerers' Plague: Book One of the Blood of the Southlands), L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Natural Ordermage), and Steve White (Blood of the Heroes).

Immigration and Emigration: Stories

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

William Poy Lee (The Eighth Promise), H.G. Carrillo (Loosing My Espanish), Marsha Mehran (Pomegranate Soup), and Nahid Rachlin (Persian Girls: A Memoir) share their stories.

Crime Wave: Murder, Murder Everywhere

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

David Ignatius (Body of Lies), Margaret Coel (The Girl with The Braided Hair), James W. Hall (Hell's Bay) and Jacqueline Winspear (An Incomplete Revenge).

Tales That Keep You Up at Night

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

Justin Evans (A Good and Happy Child), Beth Massie (Homeplace), and Mindy Klasky (Girl's Guide to Witchcraft) offer material for nightmares.

Crime Wave: Scenes of the Crimes

Sat. March 29th, 2008 10:00 AM

Cara Black (Murder in the Rue de Paradis), Margaret Coel (The Girl with the Braided Hair), Tony Dunbar (Tubby Meets Katrina), and James W. Hall (Hell's Bay).

Preston Room

Publishing Day: Successful Self-Publishing

Sat. March 29th, 2008 10:00 AM

Robert Marston Fannéy (Luthiel's Song), Charles Randolph Bruce and Carolyn Hale Bruce (the Rebel King novels), and Jeff Winner (The Strand Prophecy) discuss the rewards of writing and marketing their work.

Ashlawn Highland Room

African-American Voices

Sat. March 29th, 2008 12:00 PM

With Adam Bradley (The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Unpublished Second Novel), Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey, Age Ain't Nothin' but a Number), Stacy Hawkins Adams (Watercolored Pearls)and Evans Hopkins (Life After Life).

Graphics at Gravity: Comics and Novels

Sat. March 29th, 2008 12:00 PM

Two accomplished comics creators, writer Peter David (Writing for Comics with Peter David) and writer/illustrator Colleen Doran (Girl to Grrrl Manga: How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga), discuss their graphic novels and comic books.  Box lunches are available. $8. For choices and to order, see www.gravity-lounge.com.

Nice Jewish Boys Gone Wild

Sat. March 29th, 2008 2:00 PM

Fiction and memoir with Marc Estrin (The Lamentations of Julius Marantz), A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically), Adam Mansbach (The End of the Jews) and Peter Charles Melman (Landsman).

Echoes of the Great War

Sat. March 29th, 2008 4:00 PM

With novelists Nicholas Griffin (Dizzy City), Thomas Mullen (The Last Town on Earth) and Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs mystery series).

Writer's Eye Award Ceremony

Sun. March 30th, 2008 2:00 PM

Winners of the 22nd annual Writer's Eye competition will receive awards and first-place winners will read their entries; judges of high school, University and adult entries will comment on their winners. The Writer's Eye Anthology will be available. A reception follows.

Second Floor

Walter Mosley: A Literary Life

Sun. March 30th, 2008 4:00 PM

Join bestselling novelist Walter Mosley (Blonde Faith) in a benefit for the Virginia Center for the Book.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.