List of Sessions

NOTE: This schedule will change. Please do not print it for use at the event.

Numbered rooms are in the Legislative Plaza. All other rooms are in the State Capitol Building.

This schedule was last updated on 25 September 2009.

Friday, October 9, 2009

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : Deep Reflections: Personal Accounts of the Human Condition : Becca Stevens, Nancy Jensen

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : The Messenger : Jan Burke

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words and Combinations Thereof: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips : Roy Blount, Jr.

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30 : The Baltic Gambit : Dewey Lambdin

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner's Country : George G. Stewart

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : Living in Shadow — Southern Novels of Loss and Remembrance : Sonny Brewer, John Jeter

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : TVA Archeology: 75 Years of Prehistoric Research : Erin Pritchard

12:00-1:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Latino Writers in the American South : Lorraine Lopez, Blas Falconer, Judith Ortiz Cofer

12:00-1:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Alimentum — The Literature of Food : Nancy Vienneau, Gaylord Brewer, Paulette Licitra

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : A Just and Compassionate World: Progressives and Fighters for Social Justice : Leslie Lytle, Cecelia Tichi

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : The Millionaires : Inman Majors

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Secrets of Tennessee Gardening : Karen Angelucci

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes : Michael Sims

1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage : Jon Jackson

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor : Brad Gooch

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs : Molly Harper

1:30-2:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Impeached: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy : David O. Stewart

1:30-2:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Armchair Birder : John Yow

1:30-2:30 pm, Café Stage : David Olney

1:30-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : Southern Mosiac — Three Poets : Karen Head, Gretchen McCroskey, Dorothy Sutton

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29 : I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings : Elizabeth Spires

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : Thoughts and Observations — The Traditional Essay : Bill Peach, Judy DiGregoro

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : The Trouble with Secrets — Two Novels : Karen White, Cathy Holton

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found : Marie Brenner

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Presents: Toward the Moment of Reckoning--Masters of Southern Gothic : Ron Rash, William Gay

2:00-3:30 pm, Room 16 : Indignity, Martyrdom, and Self-Destruction — Stories of America and Race : David Magee, James Dickerson, Clay Risen, Alex Alston

2:30-3:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Lowboy : John Wray

2:30-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Coming of Age in a Complex World — Novels of Remarkable Young Women : Amanda Gable, Margaret Lazarus Dean, Jennifer Niven

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30 : Down to the Wires: Technological Thrillers : Eric Barnes, Mindy Starns Clark

3:00-4:00 pm, House Chambers : The Equation: Applying the Four Indisputable Principals of Business Success : Omar Tyree

3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library : Mullets, Mamas and Magnolias — Memoir and Misadventure : Lauretta Hannon, Stephanie Snowe

3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage : Warren Wilken

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in 11 Stories : Peter Neofotis

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 29 : Heartfelt, Heartsick, and Heartwarming — Three Novels of Change and Romantic Adventure : Kaye Dacus, Beth Pattillo, Lisa Patton

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 31 : Wax Historic — The Independent Recording Industry in the 20th Century : John Broven, Michael Scully, Jon Hartley Fox

3:30-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Barack H. Obama: Vision to Victory : Emma Wisdom, Washington Butler, Jr., Nancy Allen

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 16 : Rupture : A. Scott Pearson

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 30 : A Whodunit and a How-to: Cozy Mysteries : Jennie Bentley, Emyl Jenkins

4:00-5:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : A Backward Glance: The Southern Renascence, the Autobiographical Epic and the Classical Legacy : Joseph Millichap

4:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library : Arresting Mysteries — Innocent Men Seek Justice : Michael Lister, Allen Ansorge

4:00-5:30 pm, Room 12 : Afraid of the Dark? An Examination of the Use of Fear in Horror and Thriller Novels : Laura Benedict, J.T. Ellison, Meredith Cole

4:00-5:30 pm, House Chambers : Book Marketing in the Digital Age : Marc Tyler Nobleman, Peter Clifton

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29 : Curing the Blues with a New Pair of Shoes : Dixie Cash

4:30-5:30 pm, Café Stage : Chris Gay

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 31 : Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia : Donald Davis

Saturday, October 10, 2009

9:00-10:00 am, Room 29 : Kabul 24: The Story of the Taliban's Capture and Imprisonment of Eight Western Aid Workers Six Weeks Before September 11 : Chip Arnold, Ben Pearson

9:00-10:00 am, Room 30 : Life, Love, and the Scientific Method : Deborah Heiligman, Jacqueline Kelly

9:00-10:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma : Trenton Lee Stewart

9:00-10:00 am, Senate Chambers : My Read and Rhyme Bible Storybook : Kathleen Long Bostrom, Cindy Kenney

9:00-10:00 am, Capitol Library : Honoring the Ancestors : James Cherry

09:15AM-11:00 am, Nashville Public Library : Women's National Book Association presents National Reading Group Month Breakfast with Authors : Dr. Perri Klass, Kathryn Stockett, Holly Goddard Jones, Inman Majors, Marie Brenner

9:30-10:30 am, Room 16 : The Seems: The Lost Train of Thought : John Hulme, Michael Wexler

9:30-10:30 am, Children's Stage : Anytime, Anywhere: A Little Boy's Prayer : Marcus Hummon

10:00-11:00 am, Room 29 : Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders : Eric Etheridge

10:00-11:00 am, Room 31 : Letters and Stories of Confederate Soldiers : Charles Denny Runion, Nathaniel Hughes, Jr.

10:00-11:00 am, Room 12 : The Interrogative Mood : Padgett Powell

10:00-11:00 am, Senate Chambers : School Desegregation and Civil Rights — Stories of a Black Male Radical and White Women Activists : D'Army Bailey, Rebecca Dartt

10:00-11:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : 99 Things to Save Money in Your Household Budget : Mary Hance

10:00-11:00 am, Capitol Library : Mississippi in Transition: The Role of the Mississippi Humanities Council : Cora Norman

10:00-11:00 am, War Memorial Auditorium : The Magician's Elephant : Kate DiCamillo

10:00-11:00 am, Café Stage : The Ukedelics

10:30-11:30 am, Room 16 : A Separate Country : Robert Hicks

10:30-12:00 noon, House Chambers : New Stories of the South: The Year's Best : Madison Smartt Bell, Kevin Wilson, Jill McCorkle

10:45-11:45 am, Children's Stage : The Belly Button Fairy : Bobbie Hinman

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 31 : New Day Revolution: How to Save the World in 24 Hours : Sam Davidson, Stephen Moseley

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 12 : No Time to Wave Goodbye : Jacquelyn Mitchard

11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers : Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues : William Ferris

11:00-12:00 noon, Capitol Library : The Intricate and the Sublime — Two Poets : Marilyn Kallet, Wyatt Prunty

11:00-12:00 noon, War Memorial Auditorium : America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story : Bruce Feiler

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 30 : Blood Brothers and Drug Smugglers : G. Neri, Andrew Smith

11:00-12:00 noon, Old Supreme Court Room : Innocence Lost — Two Novels : Sara Zarr, Kathryn Williams

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 29 : The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 : Shaun Casey

11:30-12:30 pm, Food Stage : The Cracker Kitchen : Janis Owens

11:30-12:30 pm, Room 16 : Momma Loves Her Little Son : John Carter Cash

11:30-12:30 pm, Café Stage : Will Kimbrough

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir : Kaylie Jones

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Columbine : Dave Cullen

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Rebel Yell : Alice Randall, John Seigenthaler

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Good Things I Wish for You: A Novel : A. Manette Ansay

12:00-1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Prince of Frogtown : Rick Bragg

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30 : Words and White Space — Wearing the Hat of Author and Illustrator : Alex Beard, Elizabeth Dulemba

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 31 : Stone and Light — The Natural World in Verse : Ted Olson, Joan Gelfand, KB Ballentine

12:00-1:30 pm, Capitol Library : Belles Gone Bad: Bourbon Street and Beyond : Diann Blakely, Grace Bauer, Julie Kane

12:00-1:30 pm, Children's Stage : Every Heart: A Peace Dragon Tale and Memorial March

12:30-1:30 pm, Room 12 : Stardust : Joseph Kanon

12:30-2:00 pm, Room 16 : It's Eating At You — Authors Tell All About Fat Camp and Loving Your Body : Stephanie Klein, Susan Vaught, Abby Ellin

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : A War Like No Other — World War II Bombers and the Making of the Atomic Bomb : James L. McDonough, Rosemary Mariner

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Home Safe: A Novel : Elizabeth Berg

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Watershed Moment — Memoirs of Loss and Renewal : Neil White, Jessica Handler

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times : Beverly Bond, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman

1:00-2:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon : Buzz Aldrin

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : The Secret World of Walter Anderson : Hester Bass

1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage : Les Kerr

1:00-2:00 pm, Food Stage : Alimentum — The Literature of Food : Paulette Licitra, Nancy Vienneau, Amy Rogers

1:00-3:30 pm, Library Auditorium : That Evening Sun — A Film and Discussion : Scott Teems, William Gay

1:30-2:30 pm, Capitol Library : My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize: the Fabricated Memoirs of Jeff Martin : Jeff Martin

1:30-3:00 pm, Room 31 : Pilgrims, Saints and Mystics-Three Novels : Amy Foster, River Jordan, Karen McElmurray

1:30-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal : Silas House, Kathy Mattea, Jason Howard

1:45-2:45 pm, Children's Stage : The Great Dog Wash : Shellie Braeuner

2:00-3:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Help : Kathryn Stockett

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Rare Redemptions in the Down and Out South-Two Novels : Larry Baker, Richard "Dixie" Hartwell

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : Auntie Claus, Home for the Holidays : Elise Primavera

2:00-3:00 pm, Café Stage : Shelby Bottom String Band

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : 12 Brown Boys : Omar Tyree

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Liar : Justine Larbalestier

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29 : Against the Wind: The Moderate Voice in Baptist Life : Carl Kell

2:30-3:30 pm, Food Stage : Cajun and Creole Cooking : Edie Hand

2:30-3:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Brother Mel: A Lifetime of Making Art : Anne Brown, Brother Mel

2:30-4:00 pm, Capitol Library : Local Color Lives — Tales of Appalachia and Wales : Marc K. Stengel, Thomas G. Burton, Bill Hardwig

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : Confessions of an Accidental Novelist : Gary Slaughter

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Serena : Ron Rash

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Scandal of Susan Sontag : Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

3:00-4:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Going Away Shoes : Jill McCorkle

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Still Life in Words — Stories of Reflection and Regret : Holly Goddard Jones, George Bishop

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 29 : Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir : Lisa Dale Norton

3:00-4:00 pm, Children's Stage : Youth Speaks Nashville :

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 16 : Sisters in Crime presents: Researching the Mystery: Where Does it All Come From? : Chester Campbell, Margaret Fenton, J.T. Ellison, Jennie Bentley, Elizabeth Terrell

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 30 : The Trouble I've Seen — Middle Grade Novels : Peter Huggins, Billy Moore, Donny Bailey Seagraves

3:30-4:30 pm, Café Stage : Irene Kelley

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31 : Comedy and Tragedy — True Life Civil War Novels : Cornelia Nixon, Philip Lee Williams

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12 : Profane and Profound — Books of Distinctive Southern Characters : John Pritchard, Kevin Wilson

4:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers : The Mysterious Art of Erasing All Signs of Death : Charlie Huston

4:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Awards Ceremony and Reading :

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 29 : The Death of Merriweather Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation : Kira Gale

4:00-5:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Writing in Hi-Fi — New Directions in Music Journalism : Stanley Booth, Peter Patnaik

4:15-5:15 pm, Children's Stage : The Secret Life of Walter Anderson : Hester Bass

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 12 : From Songwriting to Fiction Writing : David Olney, Gordon Payne

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 16 : Tennessee Folklore Sampler : Ted Olson, Tony Cavender

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 30 : Brains or Brawn? How a Hero is Born : Ronald Kidd, Marc Tyler Nobleman

4:30-5:30 pm, Café Stage : Tommy Womack

4:30-5:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer: Judge Garnett Andrews : S. Kittrell Rushing

Sunday, October 11, 2009

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : In the Womb: Animals : Michael Sims

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : A Quiet Belief in Angels : R.J. Ellory

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Hell : Robert Olen Butler

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : Barry Mazor

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Gone to Green : Judy Christie

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : The Pipe Dreamers : Sandra Gurvis

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Of Hope and Home — New Poetry Collections : Bill Brown, Jeff Daniel Marion

12:00-1:00 pm, Food Stage : The Cake Mix Doctor : Anne Byrn

12:00-1:00 pm, Children's Stage : Soap, Soap, Soap : Elizabeth Dulemba

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 30 : The Adventures of Self-Publishing : Maggi Britton Vaughn, Veita Jo Hampton

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 12 : Gathering: Writers of Williamson County : Bill Peach, Madison Smartt Bell, Kathy Rhodes, Currie Alexander Powers

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : Journey to the Son : Lauren Braddock Havey

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : Living the Hand You're Dealt — Two Novels : Carolyn Wall, Janna McMahan

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : At Home in Tennessee : Donna Dorian

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Visceral Solitude-Novels of Struggles in Unforgiving Lands : Josh Weil, Robert Olmstead

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath : Michael Norman, Beth Norman

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : Wagging Tales: Every Animal Has A Tale : Tim Link

1:00-2:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Hothouse Orchid : Stuart Woods

1:15-2:15 pm, Children's Stage : Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop Readings

1:30-2:30 pm, Café Stage : Jeremiah Sammartano

1:30-2:30 pm, Food Stage : Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Occasions : Nancie McDermott

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 30 : Wild Things and Mockingbirds — Young Adult Novels of Finding One's Place : Loretta Ellsworth, Clay Carmichael

1:30-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Best New American Voices 2010 : David James Poissant, Christian Moody, Greg Changnon

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Lighter Side of Breast Cancer Recovery : Tammy Miller

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : A Deep Dark Secret : Kimberla Lawson Roby

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Every Day in Words-New Voices in Southern Poetry : Brett Eugene Ralph, Kory Wells

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Coming of Age in the South — Exploring the Complexities of Adolescence in Fiction : Silas House, Martin Wilson

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Maybe Now I'll Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve : Wayne White

2:00-3:30 pm, Room 31 : Angle of Vison : Lorraine Lopez, Lynn Pruett, Karen McElmurray

2:30-3:30 pm, Children's Stage : First Look at Aircraft , First Look at Trucks : Susan Eaddy

2:30-4:00 pm, Room 30 : Young, Fanged, and Undead: Novels Teens Can Sink Their Teeth Into : Melissa dela Cruz, Daniel Waters, David Macinnis Gill

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 29 : The Line Between Guilt and Innocence — Three Mysteries : Scott Pratt, Peggy Ehrhart, Randy O'Brien

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16 : The Mercy Rule: A Novel : Dr. Perri Klass

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Power of the Pulpit in Literature and Society : G. Lee Ramsey, Richard T. Hughes

3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage : Dave MacKenzie, Adie Gray

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : President Lincoln's Secret : Steven M. Wilson

3:45-4:00 pm, Children's Stage : The Lorax

4:00-4:30 pm, Children's Stage : Tina Tickle-ini

4:30-5:00 pm, Children's Stage : Birthday Party for Lyle Crocodile

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