Tentative plans for the 2012 Southern Festival of Books
September 24, 2012 § 2 Comments
Below are the Saturday and Sunday times. I’ll bold the ones I’m going to try and see at least in part, either for the readings/discussion or for the signings:
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9:00-10:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Nighttime Ninja
Ed Young
9:00-10:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Rebel Soldiers and Citizens: Examining the Personal Motives of Confederates
Brian McKnight, Gordon Belt, Traci Nichols-Belt
9:00-10:00 am, Youth Stage
BrainQuest Challenge
9:30-11:00 am, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Getting Fresh – Cook Your Best Southern Food
Tammy Algood, Debbie Moose, Kathleen Purvis
9:30-11:00 am, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Body and Spirit: New Voices in Women’s Fiction
Pamela King Cable, Kimberly Babb Brock, Ginger Moran
9:30-11:00 am, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Women’s National Book Association presents “Coffee with Authors”
Gail Tsukiyama, Christopher Tilghman, Karen Thompson Walker, Ben Fountain
9:30-11:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Jesus Take The Wheel – Novels of Family & Faith
Christa Allan, Kelli Coates Gilbert, Kathy Harris
10:00-11:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
The Cove
Ron Rash
10:00-11:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
David Blight
10:00-11:30 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
The Hero, The Heroine, and the Assassin – YA Fantasy Novels
Karyn Henley, Sarah Maas, CJ Redwine
10:00-11:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Tween Life – Writing Characters With a Sense of Self
Gitty Daneshvari, Tami Lewis Brown
10:00-11:00 am, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Profiles in History: Leaders of the Confederate South
Larry Hewitt, Rodney Steward
10:00-11:00 am, War Memorial Auditorium
The Flint Heart
Katherine Paterson, John Paterson
10:00-11:00 am, Youth Stage
BrainQuest Physical Challenge
10:00-11:00 am, Cafe Stage
Angela Easterling
10:30-11:30 am, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Barack Obama: The Story
David Maraniss
11:00-12:00 noon, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Stay Awake: Stories
Dan Chaon
11:00-12:00 noon, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Region, Race and Memory: Inheriting the Civil War
11:00-12:00 noon, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
11:00-12:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Home to Us: Six Stories of Saving the Land
John Egerton, Nancy Rhoda, Varina Willse
11:00-12:00 noon, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Tradition and Evolution in Today’s Southern Kitchens
Chris Chamberlain, Paul Knipple, Angela Knipple
11:00-12:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
The Pulpwood Queens Presents Authors that are Royal Southern READS!
Kathy Patrick, Amy Hill Hearth, Robert LeLeux, Lynda Rutledge, Jenny Wingfield
11:00-12:00 noon, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Danger in our Midst: Reporting on Nuclear Waste and Gun Laws
Kristen Iversen, Adam Winkler
11:00-12:00 noon, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Leave it on the Field: Culture, Politics, and SEC Football
Inman Majors, Chuck Thompson
11:00-12:00 noon, War Memorial Auditorium
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
11:00-12:00 noon, Youth Stage
BrainQuest Challenge
11:30-12:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Lulu Walks the Dog
Judith Viorst
11:30-12:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Burn For Burn
Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Tommy Womack
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Speaking for the Trees: Old-Growth Forests in North Carolina and Tennessee
Bill Finch, David Haskell
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
Our Feet May Leave, But Not Our Hearts – Stories of Home & Place
Silas House, Meg Medina
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
House Upon the Sand: Novels of Secrets and Reconciliations
John Neely Davis, A.J. Scudiere
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Ada’s Rules: A Sexy, Skinny Novel
Alice Randall
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Everything but the Main: Sides and Desserts for All Occasions
Fred Thompson, Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Bowling Avenue to Beale Street: Tennessee novels
Blake Fontenay, Ann Shayne
12:00-1:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Zooming In: Poems of Seeing the Eternal in the Everday
Kate Buckley, Charlotte Pence, Adam Vines
12:00-1:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
Brian Carpenter, Chris Offutt, Tom Franklin, George Singleton
12:30-1:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
In Sunlight and in Shadow
Mark Helprin
12:30-1:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Beneath the Polite Mask: Two Mysteries, Vividly Rendered
Daniel Black, Marlin Barton
12:30-1:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Crocodile’s Tears
Alex Beard
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Eat What You Sow: Two Paths to Culinary Consciousness
Jeremy Barlow, Janisse Ray
1:00-2:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
Faraway Times, Faraway Places: Bringing the Past — and the Future — to Life
Jennie Bentley, Dewey Lambdin, Alana White, Jane Sevier
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
To Fight and To Live – Paranormal and Steampunk Novels
Bethany Griffin, Amanda Havard
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Sutton
J.R. Moehringer
1:00-2:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
A Hundred Flowers
Gail Tsukiyama
1:00-2:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Future Imperfect: Dystopian Novels
M.M. Buckner, Moira Crone
1:00-2:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
The Silence of Collective Memory: Stories of Racism in the South
Pam Durban, Molly Walling, Lila Weaver
1:00-2:00 pm, Youth Stage
Jilli, That’s Silly!
Mark Wayne Adams
1:00-2:00 pm, Cafe Stage
Les Kerr and the Bayou Band
1:30-2:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
My American Revolution
Robert Sullivan
1:30-3:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Histories of Freedom: People and Politics in the Atlantic World
Madison Smartt Bell, Jane Landers, Laurent Dubois
1:30-2:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Wacky Hotels & Wily Heists – Middle Grade Adventure Series
Roland Smith, Patrick Carman
1:30-2:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Common Miracles and Everyday Revelations: Three Poets
Sandy Coomer, Clay Matthews
1:30-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
Father’s Day: A Journey Into the Heart and Mind of My Extraordinary Son
Buzz Bissinger
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Horror for Good
Robert Wilson
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
The Great Unexpected
Sharon Creech
2:00-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Boom Goes The Dynamite – Debut Novels of Modern Families
Tupelo Hassman, Lydia Netzer, Adam Wilson
2:00-3:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Cottonwood Summer ’45
Gary Slaughter
2:00-3:00 pm, Youth Stage
The Fashion Designer’s Handbook
Marjorie Galen
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Two Foot Fred: How My Life Has Come Full Circle
Fred Gill
2:30-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
A Storied Past: Riveting Historical Fiction
Da Chen, Jennie Fields, David Madden
2:30-3:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Desperate and Darkly Beautiful: Two Master Storytellers
Ron Rash, Daniel Woodrell
2:30-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Daring Dames – Women Who Make a Difference
Carolyn J. Brown, Kerrie Logan Hollihan
2:30-4:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Agents of Liberty and Equality
David Cecelski, Nicholas Buccola, Devon Carbado
2:30-3:30 pm, Cafe Stage
CD Release Party “A Decent Pan of Cornbread”
Kory Wells
Kelsey Wells
3:00-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Our Jaded Optimism: Comedic Takes on the American Character
Rosecrans Baldwin, Jack Hitt
3:00-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals
Sharon Lee Hart
3:00-4:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Ladies, Gentlemen, Losers and Loners: Three Story Collections
Adam Ross, Adam Prince, Claire Vaye Watkins
3:00-4:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Answering the Apocalypse: Stories of Families in the Aftermath
Ben Marcus, Karen Thompson Walker
3:00-4:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
By the Sweat of Her Brow: Modern Women Poets
George Ella Lyon, Eva Salzman
3:00-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Me-Oh My-Oh From K-Doe to Bayou: People and Place in Louisiana Music
Alex Cook, Ben Sandmel
3:00-4:00 pm, Youth Stage
Curious George’s 71st Birthday Party
3:30-5:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Honey, That’s Just How It Is: Stories of Appalachian Realism
Lisa Alther, Mark Powell, Charles Dodd White
3:30-4:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Coming of Age in Hidden Worlds – Victorian Novels for T(w)eens
Catherynne M. Valente, Sharon Cameron
4:00-5:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Nobody’s Hands Are Clean: Two Mysteries
Sandra Brannan, J.T. Ellison
4:00-5:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
Magdalene House: A Place About Mercy
Sarah VanHooser Suiter
4:00-5:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
Rebecca Scott
4:00-5:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
James McPherson
4:00-5:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
For Land & Family – Novels of Place and Perseverance
Courtney Miller Santo, Tatjana Soli, Gerald Duff
4:00-5:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Independent Princesses – Enchanting Novels for Tweens
Caroline Randall Williams, E.D. Baker, Alice Randall
4:00-5:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Riots and Their Cause: A Soldier’s Story of the Ole Miss Riot and Strom Thurmond’s America
Joseph Crespino, Henry Gallagher
4:00-5:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
This Fragile Life: A Mother’s Story of a Bipolar Son
Charlotte Pierce-Baker
4:00-5:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
This is How You Lose Her: Stories
Junot Díaz
4:00-5:00 pm, Cafe Stage
Secret Commonwealth
4:30-5:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Matters of the Heart – Writing Romance Novels for Teens
Kathryn Williams, Melissa Walker
Sunday, October 14, 2012
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Corey Olsen
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
Identity into Image: Photography of Place
Chip Cooper, Bruce Meisterman
12:00-1:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Creating Our Own Realities – Young People Making Sense of Their World
John Corey Whaley, George Ella Lyon, Loretta Ellsworth
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
An Artist and a Blue Beret: Young Heroines in War Zones
Bobbie Ann Mason, Ruta Sepetys
12:00-1:00 pm, Cafe Stage
Leipers Fork Bluegrass
12:00-1:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Authors and Social Media
Julianna Baggott, Ron Hogan, Michael Knight, Julie Schoerke
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Saving the World When Grown-Ups Can’t – Fantasy Adventure for Middle Grade
Kelly Barnhill, A.J. Hartley
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Shades of Walter Inglis Anderson
Maggi Britton Vaughn, Kory Wells, Carole Brown Knuth
12:00-1:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality
Susan Cushman, Jennifer Horne, Wendy Reed
12:00-1:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Cadence and Rhythm: Two Poets
Kevin Brown, Wanda Fries
12:00-1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
Red Rain: A Novel
R.L. Stine
12:00-1:00 pm, Youth Stage
Conductor Jack & Coconuts the Kangaroo from the Zinghoppers
1:00-2:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Nashville Private Eyes
Steven Womack, Stuart Dill, Jaden Terrell
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
America the Philosophical
Carlin Romano
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Celtic Memories: Novels of Historic Ireland
Jim Johnston, Kathleen Fearing
1:00-2:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Beautiful Chaos
Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia
1:00-2:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
The Haves and Have-Nots: Debut Novels Exploring Two Americas
Amber Dermont, Michel Stone
1:00-2:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Standing Up: The Southern Belle Rewritten
Taylor Polites, Kathy Hepinstall
1:00-2:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
The Art to Being and Having Been: Salient Voices in Modern Poetry
Rick Hilles, Ellen Watson
1:00-2:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
Life After Death
Damien Echols
1:00-2:00 pm, Youth Stage
BrainQuest Physical Challenge
1:30-2:30 pm, Café Stage
Adam Burrows, Josh Preston
1:30-2:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
AJ Jacobs
1:30-2:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart
1:30-2:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Southern Living Around the Southern Table
Rebecca Lang
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IB
Reconciling Faith and the World: Biographies of Spiritual Journeys
Randal Maurice Jelks, Diane Sasson
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
A Never-Ending Groove: Johnny Sandlin’s Musical Odyssey
Anathalee Sandlin
2:00-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 29
Survival Stories of Different Stripes – Middle TN Authors Discuss Their Work
Donn Sierra, Kimberly Dana, Chris McCollum
2:00-3:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium
Brainy, Brawny and Brilliantly Reviewed: Debut Novels
Jennifer DuBois, Peter Heller, Ben Fountain
2:00-3:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
By Means of Matter: Capturing Community Through Art
Susan W. Knowles, Art Shiver, Celia S. Walker
2:00-3:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Navigating the Past and Finding Forgiveness: Two Novels
Nancy Jensen, Sarah McCoy
2:00-3:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Blood Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys
Lisa Alther
2:00-2:30 pm, Youth Stage
BrainQuest Challenge
2:30-3:00 pm, Youth Stage
READ20 Family Book Club Event with First Lady Crissy Haslam
2:30-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room IA
Reconstructing Order – YA Dystopian Novels
Julianna Baggott, Jeff Hirsch, Kat Zhang
2:30-3:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
American Folk Songbook
Suzy Bogguss
2:30-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Growing the Crescent City: The History of New Orleans
Lawrence Powell, John Shelton Reed
2:30-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal
William Chafe
3:00-4:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Conf. Room II
Black Chokeberry
Martha Nelson
3:00-4:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 30
Ten Years Later
Jane Lorenzini
3:00-4:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 31
Tennessee in the Civil War
Carroll Van West, Spurgeon King, Timothy Johnson
3:00-4:00 pm, Youth Stage
The Ukedelics
Anita Moffatt and Todd Elgin
3:30-4:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Bound to the Land: Two Novels
Leonard Pitts, JR., Christopher Tilghman
4:00-5:00 pm, Youth Stage
Clifford’s 50th Birthday Party
Holy cow there are a lot of our friends in that line-up, a lot of them!Love, c.
Which ones would you recommend me attending? I do have some gaps to fill on both days 😀