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    Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word

    Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word

    Humanities Tennessee

    October 12-October 14, 2007

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    The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word brings readers and writers together for its 19th anniversary. The Festival is free and open to the public and welcomes more than 200 authors and more than 50 exhibitors.

    Friday, October 12, 2007 Noon-1:00 War Memorial Auditorium : All Over But the Shoutin' : Rick Bragg Noon-1:30 Rm 16 : Sisters in Crime Presents: Sex and Violence: Is Too Much Ever Enough? : Robert Hicks, Tasha Alexander, J.T. Ellison, Marcus Sakey Noon-1:00 Rm 29 : The End of the World as We Know It : Robert Goolrick Noon-1:00 Rm 30 : Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story : Roni Stoneman, Ellen Wright Noon-1:00 Rm 31 : Winter Lightning: Guide to the Battle of Stones River : Matt Spruill Noon-1:30 Capitol Library : Dugouts and Gridirons: The Sports Culture of the South : John David Briley, John Simpson, Clay Travis Noon-1:30 House Chambers : The Poetics of Healing : Carole Brown Knuth, Andy Landis, Susan Smith, Millie Landis Noon-1:00 Old Supreme Court Room : The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich and Powerful Really Died : Michael Largo Noon-1:30 Senate Chambers : Uplifting Lives: Autobiographies and Biographies of Black Businessmen : Bobby Lovett, Roland Jones, Samuel Howard 1-2 Rm 29 : MoonPie: Biography of an Out-of-this-World Snack : David Magee 1-2 Rm 30 : The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen : Jane Van Ryan 1-2 Rm 31 : Tennessee's Wetlands and River Valleys: The Natural World Encounters Humans : Stephen Lyn Bales, Jim Johnson 1-2 Old Supreme Court Room : Work Shirts for Madmen : George Singleton 1:30-3 Rm 16 : Grand Slam: One Writing Group, Four Women & Four Novels in 2007 : Darnell Arnoult, Lynn York, Pamela Duncan, Virginia Boyd 1:30-2:30 Capitol Library : More Than a Place: The Origins of a Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt : Lisa DuBois 1:30-2:30 Senate Chambers : Existential Realities: Two Novels : Rob Riggan, Charles Wilkinson 2-3 Rm 29 : Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley : Georgiana Kotarski 2-3 Rm 30 : Faces of the Civil Rights Movement: Diane Nash and Maxine Smith : Sherre Hoppe, Bruce Speck, Lisa Mullins 2-3 Rm 31 : Kick Butt: A Novel : Don Huber 2-3 House Chambers : Boone: A Biography : Robert Morgan 2-3:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Best New American Voices 2008 : David James Poissant, Sharon May, Lauren Groff 2:30-3:30 Capitol Library : The Dead Don't Dance (A Novel of Awakening) : Charles Martin 3-4 War Memorial Auditorium : Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers : Elizabeth Edwards 3-4 Rm 16 : Lyrics and Lyricism: A conversation on poetry and songwriting : Marshall Chapman, Tom Kimmel 3-4 Rm 29 : Seeking Self: An Inner Journey to Healthy Relationships : Stephan McLaughlin 3-4 Rm 30 : Madness and Mirth: Short Stories from the Deep South : Jennifer Davis, Paul Ruffin 4-5:30 Rm 16 : Is Self-Editing an Oxymoron? : Lonnie Cruse, Chris Roerden, Pat Meller 4-5 Rm 29 : Middle Tennessee 1775–1825 : Kristofer Ray 4-5 Rm 30 : Letters of the Blue and the Gray : Stephen Towne, Jennifer Ford 4-5 Rm 31 : Literary Cash : Vernell Hackett, Leigh Edwards 4-5 Capitol Library : I Didn't Know That: From Ants in the Pants to Wet Behind the Ears the Unusual Origins of the Things We Say : Karlen Evins 4-5:30 House Chambers : What's Next for the Short Story? How the Form � and the market for it � is changing : Quinn Dalton, Erika Schickel, Daniel Wallace, Sonny Brewer, Kevin Watson 4:30-5:30 Rm 12 : Journeys through Space and Time: Along the Blue Ridge Mountains and Florida's Emerald Coast : Jean Lufkin Bouler, Casey Clabough 4:30-5:30 Senate Chambers : Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland : William Lynwood Montell

    Saturday, October 13, 2007 9-10 Rm 12: Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana and the Defense of the Red River : Steven Mayeux 9-10 Rm30: A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign : Timothy Johnson 9-10 Rm 31 : Moving Heaven and Earth: Southern Families Find Their Strengths : Nicole Seitz, Denise Hildreth 9-10 Old Supreme Court Room : Unique Voices from the Nashville Writing Community : Ralph Bland, Eddy Arnold 9-10 Senate Chambers : Kate's Pride : Renee Russell 9-10 Rm 16 : Nancy Culpepper: Stories : Bobbie Ann Mason 9-10 Rm 30 : A Shred of Truth : Eric Wilson 10-11 Rm 31 : Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients : Robert Cochran 10-11 Capitol Library : The Poems of Hafez (trans.) : Reza Ordoubadian 10-11 House Chambers : Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone : Joshua Clark 10-11 Senate Chambers : When Nashville Fell: Forrest, Grant and the Civil War in the West : Michael R. Bradley, Jack Hurst 10:30-Noon Old Supreme Court Room : Local Color, Clever Characters: Serial Mysteries : Alex Matthews, Con Lehane 11-12:30 War Memorial Auditorium : New Stories from the South 2007 : Moir Crone, Cary Holladay, George Singleton, Daniel Wallace, Kathy Pories 11-Noon Rm 12 : Speechless: The Erosion of Free Speech in the American Workplace : Bruce Barry 11-Noon Rm 16 : Beyond Oil: Practical Solutions for Self-Sufficiency : Albert Bates, Paul Bures 11-Noon Rm 30 : From the Hills to the Honky Tonks: Two Country Legends : Bob Cox, Diane Diekman 11-Noon Rm 31 : Taking After Mudear : Tina McElroy Ansa 11-Noon Capitol Library : How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation : Michael Nelson 11-Noon House Chambers : Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure and the Man Who Dared to See : Robert Kurson 11-Noon Senate Chambers : Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic : Erskine Clarke Noon-1 Rm 12 : Austenland: A Novel : Shannon Hale Noon-1 Rm 16 : Allegiance : Timothy Zahn Noon-1 Room 31 : A Different Kind of Honor : Robert Macomber Noon-1 Capitol Library : The Landscape Within: Two Poets Define the Indefinable : Brian Barker, Blas Falconer Noon-1:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Sisters in Crime Presents: Tips and Insider Secrets on Getting Published : Tasha Alexander, Toni McGee Causey, Derek Nikitas, Marcus Sakey, J.T. Ellison Noon-1 House Chambers : Songs Without Words : Ann Packer 1-2 Rm 16 : Digging In: Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard : Robert Benson 1-2 Rm 30 : The Country Music Anthology : Randy Rudder, Vernell Hackett, Bob Doershuck, Michael McCall, Bill Friskics-Warren 1-2 Rm 31 : Southern Views of the Civil War and After: Two Biographies : William Barney, Andrew Billingsley 1-2 Rm Capitol Library : Poems Both Tough and Tender : Lynnell Edwards, Keith Flynn 1-2 Rm House Chambers : Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette : Sena Jeter Naslund 1-2 Rm Senate Chambers : Please Take Me Home Before Dark: One Family's Journey with Alzheimer's Disease : Billie Pate, Mary Pate Yarnell 1:30-2:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Mountain Scenery and So Much More: Tourism in the Southern Highlands : Christopher Brenden Martin, Tim Hollis 2-3 War Memorial Auditorium : Beyond the Body Farm : William Bass, Jon Jefferson 2-3 Rm 16 : Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and in Imagination : Michael Sims 2-3 Rm 30 : Cormac: Tale of a Dog Gone Missing : Sonny Brewer 2-3 Rm 31 : Tennessee Writers' Alliance presents Carolyn Howard-Johnson : Carolyn Howard-Johnson 2:00-3:30 Capitol Library : Rhythms of the Natural World: Three Poets : Bill Brown, Rita Quillen, Connie Green 2-3 House Chambers : Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War : Joe Bageant 2-3 Senate Chambers : Southern Madams: Making it Through the Great Depression : Paula Wall, Julia Watts 2:30-3:30 Rm 29 : Women I've Known : Greg Johnson 2:30-3:30 Old Supreme Court Room : The Storyteller's Voice: Writing as a Second Career : John Sims Jeter, Gary Slaughter 3-4 Rm 30 : An Unfinished Canvas: A Story of Love, Family and Murder : Mike Glasgow, Phyllis Gobbell 3-4 Rm 31 : Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: Wit and Wisdom from Newlyweds and New Moms : Annabelle Robertson, Erika Schickel 3-4 House Chambers : Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South : Roy Blount, Jr. 3-4 Senate Chambers : Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System : David Weintraub 3:30-4:30 Capitol Library : Drunk in Sunlight : Daniel Anderson 3:30-4:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Walking a Tightrope: Debut Novels of Women Transforming Their Worlds : Lara Santoro, Carolyn Turgeon 4-5 Rm 12 : Desperate Ransom: Setting Her Family Free : Minton Sparks 4-5 Rm 16 : Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors : Lisa Alther 4-5 Rm 29 : Down in Orbundale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida : Bobby Braddock 4-5 Rm 30 : The Price of 40 Acres: Two Stories of Segregation : Vivian Gunn Morris, Curtis Morris, Dwonna Goldstone 4-5 Rm 31 : Robert E. Lee's Lighter Side: The Marble Man's Sense of Humor : Tom Forehand, Jr. 4-5 House Chambers : Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Musician : Daniel Wallace 4-5 Senate Chambers : Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship : John Baldwin 4-5:30 Capitol Library : Interpreting Alabama: Poets Write of Their Homeland : Wayne Greenhaw, Virginia Gilbert 4-5:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Women Writers on Writing : Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rosemary Daniell 5-5:40 Rm 29 : Turn the Page and You Don't Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth : Patrick Oliver (editor)

    Sunday, October 14, 2007 Noon-1 Rm 12 : No Good Deeds: An Historical and Modern Look at Lethal Punishment : Margaret Vandiver, Carl Wedekind Noon-1 Rm War Memorial Auditorium : You Can Lead a Politican to Water, but You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics : Kinky Friedman Noon-1 Rm 16 : The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South: From Bright Hope to Frog Level, Second Serving : Fred Sauceman Noon-1 Rm 30 : Guests Behind the Barbed Wire: German POWs in America: A True Story of Hope and Friendship : Ruth Beaumont Cook Noon-1:30 Rm 31 : Second Acts in Fiction: Writing a Series : Robert Dalby, Karin Gillespie Noon-1 Capitol Library : Fighting Castro: A Love Story : Kay Abella Noon-1 House Chambers : William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers : Lisa C. Hickman Noon-1 Old Supreme Court Room : Bucolics : Maurice Manning Noon-1 Senate Chambers : Parallel Americas: Short Stories : Moira Crone, Lorraine Lopez 1-2 Rm 16 : One Mississippi : Mark Childress 1-2 Rm 29 : Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing : Katherine Henninger 1-2 Rm 30 : Come Hell or High Water: Southern Short Stories : Tamara M. Baxter, Jimmy Carl Harris 1:30-2 Rm 31 : Kentucky Summers: The Cave, the Cabin and the Tattoo Man : Tim Callahan 1-2 Capitol Library : Epistles : Mark Jarman 1-2 House Chambers : The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation : Gene Roberts 1-2 Old Supreme Court Room : Thomas Jefferson on Wine : John Hailman 2-3:30 War Memorial Auditorium : New Enclyclopedia for Southern Culture: Foodways Edition : John T. Edge, John Egerton, Charles Reagan Wilson, Roy Blount, Jr., Martha Stamps 2-3:30 Rm 16 : Sisters in Crime Presents Writing with Criminal Intent : Lonnie Cruse, Mary Saums, E. Joan Sims, Elizabeth Terrell 2-3 House Chambers : Games of Cat and Mouse: Thrillers : James O. Born, Steven James 2-3 Old Supreme Court Room : Myth, Fairy Tale and Fable in Southern Fiction : Tito Perdue, William Gay 2:30-3:30 Rm 12 : Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember : Melody Golding 2-3:30 Rm 31 : Take the Long Way Home: Novels of Self-Discovery : J.L. Miles, Karen White 2:30-3:30 Capitol Library : Rivers and Time: Two Poets : David Cazden, Tung-Hui Hu 2:30-3:30 Senate Chambers : Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy : Frye Gaillard 3:30-4:30 PM, Rm 12 : Looking for Goodwill : Pat Price, Scott Price 3:30-4:30, Rm 16 : From Perdition to Redemption: Novels of the Civil War : Richard Taylor, Michael White 3:30-4:30 Rm 29 : A Shot at Redemption: Novels of Fathers and Sons : John J. McLaughlin, Paul Shepherd 3:30-4:30 Rm 30 : Making Nashville Music City: WSM and Music Row : Michael Kosser, Craig Havighurst 3:30-4:30 Rm 31 : Enduring Classics, Troublesome Times: Biography and Essays on Harper Lee and Thomas Wolfe : Joanne Marshall Mauldin, Alice Hall Petry 3:30-4:30 Old Supreme Court Room : Nashville's Newest Book Prize: The Making of a Contest � The Discovery of a Winner! The Parthenon Prize for Fiction 2007 : Kelly C. Falzone, Scott Muskin, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Honsberger 3:30-4:30 Senate Chambers : Leftover Light : Thandiwe Shiphrah Each author on the program participates in a panel discussion or offers a solo presentation, and each has a book signing immediately following his/her session. Special events for children are planned, including appearances by favorite characters and birthday parties to celebrate the anniversaries of great children's books. The festival will also feature two performance stages in addition to a Cooking Stage. The Cafe Stage features exceptional musicians, and the Children's Stage features children's storytellers, writers, performers and musicians. The Cooking Stage will highlight talented chefs preparing and discussing recipes from the latest food and cookbooks.

    Festival Location: This event takes place in downtown Nashville, near the Legislative Plaza.

    • Ticket Info

      Tickets: Free Admission

      Info Phone: (615) 770-0006

    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      October 12-October 14, 2007

      Times:
      Friday Noon-6pm
      Saturday 9:00am-6pm
      Sunday Noon-5pm

    • NOTE: We do our best to ensure the accuracy of information, however, it is a good idea to visit the official website or call the venue for possible schedule changes.

    • Venue Info

      War Memorial Plaza and Tennessee Capitol

      Charlotte Avenue at 7th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37203

      Full map and directions

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