Basketball legend Jerry West (West by West) shares his thoughts on overcoming obstacles, being a "team player," and achieving success. Co-writer Jonathan Coleman introduces Mr. West and joins him for a booksigning following the Breakfast.

Hosted by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Sponsored by SNL Financial Services; ACAC; and Miller Financial Group.

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

Featuring:
Jonathan Mark Coleman, Jerry West

Christopher Phillips, author of Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution will talk about his experiences to date sparking a movement to write a 'new' U.S. Constitution

Featuring:
Christopher Phillips, John Ragosta (moderator)

The ARC staff leads an exploration of how a unique set of real life circumstances can motivate people. The program explores how primary source news coverage and print can eventually develop into a major motion picture.

Hosted by ARC of the Piedmont and Piedmont Council of the Arts.

The Charlottesville Aviation Luncheon Club presents Dr. Daniel Haulman, who co-authored The Tuskegee Airmen: A Pictorial History. Dr. Haulman will discuss the Airmen, illustrated with images. Contact Allan Van Wickler to reserve for the luncheon buffet, $15 (434-296-0439) or email: amvwdsvw@comcast.net.

Hosted by Charlottesville Aviation Luncheon Club.

Featuring:
Daniel Haulman, Allan Van Wickler (moderator)

Celebrate the 18th annual Virginia Festival of the Book with Poet Laureate of Virginia Kelly Cherry (Hazard and Prospect); proclamations from the County and City; and special writing and community awards.

Hosted by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Sponsored by Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.

Featuring:
Kelly Cherry, Robert Vaughan (moderator)

John Quale (Sustainable, Affordable, Prefab: The ecoMOD Project) discusses his work on making affordable Prefab Housing.

Hosted by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.

Featuring:
John D. Quale, Dan Rosensweig (moderator)

G. Wright Doyle, co-author with Yu Xiaolong of China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society, discusses a book that explains important features of both traditional Chinese culture and modern society and their impact upon us. 

Featuring:
G. Wright Doyle, Andrew Wyndham (moderator)

Matt Matthews (Mercy Creek), Pamela Redmond (The Possibility of You), and David Winner (The Cannibal of Guadalajara).

Featuring:
Matt Matthews, Pamela Redmond, Mariflo Sanders Stephens (moderator), David Winner

Patricia Spacks (On Rereading), Edgar Shannon Professor of English and Emerita Chair of the UVa English Department, shares her joy in rereading favorite books.

Featuring:
Sarah Pickell (moderator), Patricia Meyer Spacks

Lynn Coffey (Backroads: Plain Folk and Simple Living), Phil James (Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Stories from Western Albemarle), Paddy Bowman (Through the Schoolhouse Door: Forklore, Community, Curriculum) and Saundra Gerrell Kelley (Southern Appalachian Storytellers).

Featuring:
Paddy Bowman, Lynn Coffey, Phil James, Saundra Gerrell Kelley, Jeanne Nicholson Siler (moderator)

Robin Traywick Williams (Bush Hogs and Other Swine), Deborah Prum (Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines), and Faith Andrews Bedford (Barefoot Summers) discuss their life-based essays.

Featuring:
Faith Andrews Bedford, Deborah Prum, Susan Shane (moderator), Robin Traywick Williams

Robert Gillette (The Virginia Plan) and Elliot Carlson (Joe Rochefot's War) discuss the special roles that William B. Thalhimer and Joe Rochefort played in World War II.

Featuring:
Blake Caravati (moderator), Elliot Carlson, Robert Henry Gillette

David Willman (The Mirage Man) describes the complex story of the person accused of sending anthrax through the mail following 9/11.

Featuring:
Eric Stern (moderator), David Willman

Laura Jones (Breaking and Entering) and Kurt Ayau (The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories) read from their short story collections.

Featuring:
Kurt Jose Ayau, Laura Semonche Jones, Mitzi Ware (moderator)

Stephanie Deutsch (Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South) and Daniel Haulman, co-author (The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949).

Featuring:
Stephanie Deutsch, Daniel Haulman, Kara Dixon Vuic (moderator)

Reading with John Casteen (For the Mountain Laurel), Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry (Hazard and Prospect), and Paul Guest (My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge).

Featuring:
Carolyn Cades (moderator), John Casteen, Kelly Cherry, Paul Guest

Olivier Zunz (Philanthropy in America: A History) discusses his comprehensive history of the changes in charitable giving from post-Civil War to the present, with remarks and response by Suzanne Moomaw and Cathy Train.

Featuring:
Suzanne Morse Moomaw, Elizabeth Piper (moderator), Cathy Train, Olivier Zunz

Margaret Emmanuelson (Company of Spies series), Vivian Feggans (The Gathering Place: Ordinary Women; Extraordinary Lives), Michael Levatino (The Joy of Hobby Farming), and Jeanne Vanderhoef (Hard Road To Heaven) share their adventures in writing, publishing and selling books.

Hosted by Piedmont Council of the Arts and Charlottesville Parks and Therapeutic Recreation.

Featuring:
Margaret Sells Emanuelson, Vivian Feggans, Michael Levatino, Stephen Pfleiderer (moderator), Jeanne Ann Vanderhoef

Catch the bus, catch some poetry! Adult and youth winners of Charlottesville's Bus Lines Community Poetry Contest read their original poems, which have been featured on posters on Charlottesville Area Transit buses this past year.

Hosted by Bus Lines, Charlottesville Area Transit.

Featuring:
Sue Berres

Sandra Gutierrez (The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes that Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South).

Hosted by The Happy Cook.

Featuring:
Sandra A. Gutierrez, Monique Moshier (moderator)

Anne McKeithen (Listening to Color: Blacks and Whites in Aberdeen, North Carolina, North Carolina), Patricia Conner (Doorways to Significance: Finding Peace, Power & Passion), and Sherie Holbrook Labedis (You Came Here to Die, Didn't You).

Featuring:
Pat Holland Conner, Sherie Labedis, Donna M. Lucey (moderator), Anne McKeithen

Ralph Alan Cohen discusses Much Ado About Nothing prior to a performance of the play in the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This is a ticketed event: www.americanshakespearecenter.com.

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

Featuring:
Ralph Alan Cohen

Nick Galifianakis (If You Loved Me You Would Think This is Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You) shows his cartoons, which are nationally syndicated with the relationship advice column of Carolyn Hax.

Featuring:
Nick Galifianakis, M. Piper Gustafson (moderator)

Jay Varner (Nothing Left to Burn), Kathryn Erskine (The Absolute Value of Mike), Emma Rathbone (The Patterns of Paper Monsters), and Kristen-Paige Madonia (Fingerprints of You) discuss their coming-of-age stories, both fictional and biographical, and discuss connections between their books and the JMRL's "Big Read" of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima.

Hosted by The Bridge PAI, Jefferson Madison Regional Library.

Featuring:
Kathryn Erskine, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Leeyanne Moore (moderator), Emma Rathbone, Jay S Varner

Johanna Shapiro, Margaret Plews-Ogan, Sharon Hostler, and Daniel Becker discuss the benefits and risks of creative writing programs in medical education and faculty development. Strong medicine but not for everyone.

Hosted by UVa School of Medicine.

Featuring:
Daniel Becker (moderator), Sharon L. Hostler, Margaret Plews-Ogan, Johanna Shapiro

Celebrate the life and music of legendary musician Mike Seeger. Featuring author Bill C. Malone (Music from the True Vine) and musicians Alexia Smith, James Leva, Danny Knicely, Aimee Curl, and Elizabeth LaPrelle. An "old-time" jam concludes the evening.

Hosted by Virginia Folklife Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Sponsored by Rosewood Village.

Featuring:
Jon Lohman (moderator), Bill C. Malone

A performance of Elephant's Graveyard, followed by "American Culture, Society and the Circus" with Janet Davis, John Frick, and LaVahn Hoh.

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

Homero Aridjis, Mexican journalist and poet, reads from his work in Spanish. Rita Dove reads translations.

Hosted by U.Va. Department of English.

Featuring:
Homero Aridjis, Rita Dove (moderator)