Schedule By Day

Business Breakfast: The Place to Be

Wed. March 26th, 2008 7:30 AM

With Roger Mudd, veteran newsman and author of The Place to Be: Washington,CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.

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

Ballroom

Entrepreneurs and Investors and Managers: Small Business Stories

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

Randy Cepuch (A Weekend with Warren Buffet, Shri Henkel, ( 365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Commit Every Day) and Mike Gilbert (The Switch Effect: A Real-Life Example of How to Become an Entrepreneur). Box lunches are available for purchase at Gravity Lounge. $8. See www.gravity-lounge.com for details.

High Gloss: Making the Beautiful Book

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

With Susan Tyler Hitchcock (Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk), Jon Lohman (In Good Keeping: Virginia's Folk Apprenticeships), and Anne B. Barriault and Kay Davidson (Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).

Opening Ceremony

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

Join us for a ceremonial start to the book festival, proclamations from the City and County, readings from the state winners of the Letters About Literature contest, the announcement of The Hook contest winners, and opening remarks by author Charles Shields (Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee).

McIntire Room

The Art of the Occasional Essay

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

English teacher John Amos will read from his essay collection Every Now and Then. His essays--which span a wide range of topics--are thoughtful reflections on how to keep the essence of the past alive in a modern world.

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).

Visions of a Dynamic Earth

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:00 PM

Michael D. King and Claire Parkinson (Our Changing Planet: The View From Space) will show extraordinary photography of the earth, taken from space, Craig B. Smith (Extreme Waves) will discuss tsunamis.

Medical School Hour: Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Wed. March 26th, 2008 12:30 PM

Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam, will reflect on her work as a surgeon dealing with mortality.

A Multi-Perspective Look at Washington, D.C.

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

Michael Bednar (L'Enfant's Legacy) and Zachary Schrag (The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro) present architectural and historical views of the District.

McIntire Room

Digging Coal and Moving Mountains

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

Penny Loeb (Moving Mountains), Michael Shnayerson (Coal River), and Paul Kuczko (Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields) bring old and new coal mining issues to life.

Jim Crow and Mississippi: Richard Wright's Black Boy

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

Deborah McDowell (Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin) and Patricia Vandever, Chair, Department of English, Charlottesville High School, join a group of CHS Advanced Placement students for a discussion of Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boy.

Love and Parachutes: Maximizing Life's Last Chapter

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

As more Americans' lives end slowly, people have the opportunity to make their last days among their most fulfilling. Blending data with touching and hilarious stories, Stephen Kiernan (Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System) reveals how the health system thwarts people's last wishes, yet also shows how they can make those dreams come true.

New Writings on Jefferson

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

With historians Jon Kukla (Mr. Jefferson's Women), Jeremy D. Bailey (Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power), and Alan Pell Crawford (Twilight at Monticello).

Unseen and Unheard: Living with Invisible Illness

Wed. March 26th, 2008 2:00 PM

Dorothy Wall (Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and Peggy Munson (editor, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), discuss, via DVD presentation and conference call, personal stories and the complex social and political dynamics of living with invisible illness.

Room B

Inheriting Paradise--Meditations on Gardening

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

Dr. Vigen Guroian, Ph.D. (The Fragrance of God), Orthodox Christian theologian and avid gardener, will offer reflective readings revealing ways in which gardening can inspire spiritual growth.

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).

Opening the Vein: Pouring Life into Writing

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

The Moseley Writers, Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren (Josias, Hold the Book), Deborah Prum (Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines), Fran Cannon Slayton, and Andy Straka (Record of Wrongs), discuss how real life experiences inform fiction and keep writing fresh in a marketing-saturated world.

Photographing the Presidents: The Bigger Picture

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

Diana Walker, who has photographed the U.S. Presidents, their families, presidential events and work for Time Magazine since l979, will show and discuss her work, as captured in The Bigger Picture and Public & Private.

The World the War Made: WWII's Legacy in Justice and Diplomacy

Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM

With Mel Leffler (For the Soul of Mankind: The U.S., the Soviet Union, and the Cold War), Norbert Ehrenfreund (The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History), and Steven Harper (Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold).

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).

Meet "Prince of Jazz" - Dizzy Gillespie and Trumpet!

Wed. March 26th, 2008 5:30 PM

Mozelle Booker reads Jonah Winter's Dizzy, the story of Dizzy Gillespie. Artist John Trippell leads audience in creating Dizzy's story in "paper bag art." Open to the public. Suitable for children ages 5 and up.

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Novelist Francisco Goldman will discuss his non-fiction book on the political murder of Guatemalan Bishop Msgr. Juan Gerardi

In Search of Irish America

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Peter Quinn (Looking for Jimmy), Daniel Cassidy (How the Irish Invented Slang), Dan Barry (Pull Me Up), Maureen Dezell (Irish America: Coming into Clover), and T. J. English (Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster).

Memoirs: Writing Our Lives, Writing Our Cultures

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Elko Stillfried (Leaves in the Wind), Konstantina Dimitra Mahlia (The House of Many Faces), Beatrix Ost (My Father's House: A Childhood in Wartime Bavaria), Linwood Custalow and Angela L. Daniel (The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History).

Self-Help, Twelve Steps and You

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

With Jennifer Niesslein (Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help and Back) and Martha Woodroof (How to Stop Screwing Up: Twelve Steps to Real Life and  a Pretty Good Time).

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.

We Teach the Children: Educators Share Their Wisdom

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

With Christopher Mercogliano (In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness) Abigail Norfleet James (Teaching the Male Brain), and Elinor Miller (A Banner Experience).

Weaving Poetry Networks: A Celebration of WOM-PO

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv read from the newly published Letters to the World. This one-of-a-kind international collection of 258 poets was shaped by consensus-based feminist collaboration over the internet.

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.