Schedule

Schedule of Events

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

Thursday’s luncheon program will be at the John Davis Williams Library on the University campus; program sessions on Thursday afternoon will be at the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts on University Avenue. Thacker Mountain Radio will be broadcast from the Paris Yates Chapel on the University Campus at 6:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Registration Begins: Barnard Observatory

Registration will be held at Barnard Observatory on Thursday, March 4, from 10:00 a.m. until noon. Thereafter, registration materials will be available at the various meeting sites.

11:30 a.m. Lunch

Opening Address

Jennifer Ford, moderator

“Common Bond: A World of Books and Book People”

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Lunch Hosted by Julia Rholes, Dean of University Libraries

John Davis Williams Library

1:30 p.m. Welcome

Ivo Kamps

Greetings

Jon Parrish Peede

Celebration of National Poetry Month
Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator

Mark Jarman, E. Ethelbert Miller

2:30 p.m. “Writing about Politics”

Curtis Wilkie, moderator
Hendrik Hertzberg, Todd S.Purdum

4:00 p.m. “Literary Oxford”

John Grisham

Richard Howorth

Daniel W. Jones

6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees, host

Steven Amsterdam, guest author

The Yalobushwhackers, house band

Barry "Po" Hannah Jr., Cary Hudson, Laurie Stirratt, guest musicians

7:00 p.m. Dinner with the Speakers

Barksdale-Isom Place (Reservations Required)

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

Program sessions on Friday morning will be at the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts on University Avenue; all program sessions on Friday afternoon will be at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics on the University campus. The 7 and 8 o’clock programs will be at Off Square Books.

9:00 a.m. Literature for Young Readers 1

Katie McKee, moderator
Readings/Remarks: Ingrid Law

10:30 a.m. Literature for Young Readers 2

Susan Phillips, moderator

Readings/Remarks: Watt Key

Noon Lunch – on your own

1:30 p.m. “Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity”

Ted Ownby, moderator

Bliss Broyard, W. Ralph Eubanks

3:00 p.m. “The University Press of Mississippi at 40 Years”

Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, moderator

John Langston, JoAnne Prichard Morris, Noel Polk, Leila Salisbury, Seetha Srinivasan, Steve Yates

4:00 p.m. Readings and Remarks

Lyn Roberts, moderator
John Brandon, Donna Hemans

5:00 p.m. Readings and Remarks

Lyn Roberts, moderator
Steven Amsterdam, Wells Tower

7:00 p.m. Promoting Books and Authors

Margaret-Love Denman, moderator

Lynda M. and James V. O’Connor

8:00 p.m. Open Mike: Poetry & Fiction Jam

Anya Groner, Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

SATURDAY, MARCH 6

Program sessions on Saturday will be at the Overby Center on the University campus. The 6 o’clock book signing and party will be at Off Square Books.

9:00 a.m. “The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow”
Elaine H. Scott, moderator

Claiborne Barksdale, Watt Key, Ingrid Law

10:30 a.m. “Survivors of Geronimo Rex”

William Dunlap, moderator
Harry Brown, Horace Newcomb, Noel Polk, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, John Quisenberry

Noon Lunch – picnic celebrating the 40th anniversary of the University Press of Mississippi

2:00 p.m. “Barry Hannah as Teacher”

Tom Franklin, moderator

Jonathan Miles, Anne Rapp, Cynthia Shearer

3:00 p.m. “Teaching Barry Hannah”

Jay Watson , moderator
Donald Kartiganer, Jon Parrish Peede, Daniel E. Williams

4:00 p.m. “Barry Hannah as Writer”

Richard Howorth, moderator
William Harrison, Mark Richard, Wells Tower

6:00 p.m. Marathon Book Signing and Party

Off Square Books