List of Sessions

For Children's and Young Adult sessions, as well as Children's Stage events, see the Children and YA page.

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

The official program will be available at the Festival, and updates will be posted there.
This page was last updated on 03 October 2008.

Friday, October 10, 2008

12:00-1:00 pm, Café Stage : Suzanne McDermott

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Poets with Personality : Tom Kimmel, Maggi Britton Vaughn

12:00-1:00 pm, Food Stage : 88 Ways to Her Heart: Cooking for Lovers from the Kitchen to the Bedroom : Jernard Wells

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Eyes to See, Volume II and Ancient Highways : Bret Lott

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Locked Up and Last Rights: Christian Encounters with Social Justice : Don Beisswenger, Joseph B. Ingle

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : Society's Child: My Autobiography : Janis Ian

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : Redneck Boy in the Promised Land : Ben Jones

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : Narrowing the Divide Between Good and Evil: Two Novels : Shannon Burke, Debbie Lee Wesselmann

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30 : The Road to Eden's Ridge : M.L. Rose

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : A Good and Happy Child : Justin Evans

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Mercy Seller : Brenda R. Vantrease

1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage : The Dean Martinis : Tom Larson

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Whole World Swimming: Two Poets : Patricia Waters, Thorpe Moeckel

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : The Bible Salesman : Clyde Edgerton

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : My Son's Wife : Shelia Lipsey

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : From the Delta to the Village: The Blues in History and Contemporary Culture : Adam Gussow, Ted Gioia

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : White Lightning : Minton Sparks

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : Arts, Inc. How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights : Bill Ivey

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Hardship in the Hills: Historical Fiction of Appalachia : Dot Jackson, M. Glenn Taylor

1:00-2:30 pm, Room 31 : Re-shaping the Past: Novels that View and Review the Historical South : Kip Gayden, Renee Russell, Leslie Walker Williams

1:30-2:30 pm, Food Stage : 100 + Recipes that Work : Bill Kennedy

2:00-3:00 pm, Café Stage : Jon Jackson

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : Mermaids in the Basement : Michael Lee West

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Hope of the Confederacy, the Last Pitched Battle for American Independence: Wars in the South in History and Fiction : Tom Chaffin, Charles Price

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Gender Politics : Trent Watts, Kelly Oliver

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Toussaint Louverture: A Biography : Madison Smartt Bell

2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29 : Keep It Short: Writing and Publishing Mystery Short Stories : Alana J. White, Beverle Graves Myers, Mark Orr, Molly MacRae, Rick McMahan

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : The Artist Within : Whitney Ferre

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Home to Harscuffle and All That Jazz : Charles A. Howell

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 31 : Renegades and Road Trips: Scintillating Stories of America : Ed McClanahan, George Singleton

3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage : Tom Kimmel

3:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Quiet Witness: Poetry and Nature : Dan Albergotti, David Rigsbee, Ed Madden, Linda Lee Harper

3:00-4:00 pm, Food Stage : Chocolate Covered Friendship : Bethany Thouin, Angela Fox

3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers : Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer : Bret Anthony Johnston, Elizabeth Strout, Michael Knight, Lee Martin, Mark Winegardner

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Native Guard : Natasha Trethewey

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16 : The Blue Star : Tony Earley

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30 : The Bridge — Murder, Intrigue, and a Struggle for Justice in Nicaragua : Michael Glasgow

3:30-4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Adapting to Change: Novels of Strong Southern Women : Darnell Arnoult, Dawn Shamp

3:30-5:00 pm, Room 29 : Tell Me Why I Should Love My Body : Pat Ballard, Peggy Elam, Bunkie Lynn

3:30-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers : It Hurts to Laugh: Short Stories : Gerald Duff, Angus Woodward

4:00-5:00 pm, Café Stage : Satan and Adam : Adam Gussow

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12 : The Future in Fiction: Two Novels : Mary Buckner, Sallie Lowenstein

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 16 : The Fight Between Good and Evil: Spiritual Thrillers : Eric Wilson, Matt Bronleewe

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 30 : The River Inside : John Guider

4:30-5:30 pm, Food Stage : The Georgia Hometown Cookbook : Kent Whitaker

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 31 : Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas : Ann Wicker

4:30-5:30 pm, Senate Chambers : James K. Polk: 1845-1849: The American Presidents Series : John Seigenthaler

Saturday, October 11, 2008

9:00-10:00 am, House Chambers : The Adventures of Douglas Bragg : Madison Jones

9:00-10:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : Their Ancient Grudge : Richard Saunders

9:00-10:00 am, Room 12 : Lazy Little Loafers : Susan Orlean

9:00-10:00 am, Room 16 : Southern Shade: A Plant Selection Guide and Southern Sun: A Plant Selection Guide : Jo Kellum

9:00-11:00 am, Room 29 : The Successful Debut Novel: Four Writers Tell How : Ashley Crownover, Barry Kitterman, Padma Viswanathan, Lorraine Adams

9:00-10:00 am, Room 30 : The Language of Positive Parenting : Stacey R. Kaye

9:00-10:00 am, Room 31 : Better or Deader? Thrillers About Paths to Perfection : Charlie Lovett, Jennie Bentley

9:00-10:00 am, Senate Chambers : Reading, Writing and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville : Sonya Ramsey

9:00-11:00 am, Sheraton Suite 6 : Me Against the World: Courageous Characters in Historical Fiction : Helen Hemphill, Margaret McMullan, Ted Dunagan, Carole Boston Weatherford, Wilmoth Foreman

9:30-10:30 am, Capitol Library : In the Middle of Silence: Two Poets : KB Ballentine, Kelly Moffett

9:30-10:00 am, Children's Stage : Paco and the Giant Chile Plant : Elizabeth Dulemba

10:00-11:00 am, Café Stage : Jim A. Clark

10:00-11:00 am, Food Stage : Handy Mom's Guide to Grilling: The Fast, Easy Way to Smokin' Meals! : Catherine Mayhew

10:00-11:00 am, House Chambers : Palace Council : Stephen L. Carter

10:00-11:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story : Julia Reed

10:00-11:00 am, Room 12 : Two Award-Winning Picture Book Authors Present Their Latest Works : Gloria Jean Pinkney, Patricia McKissack

10:00-11:00 am, Room 16 : Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul : Karen Abbott

10:00-11:00 am, Room 30 : Words and Images: Crafting Graphic Novels : Scott Christian Sava, B. Albers Jackson

10:00-11:00 am, Room 31 : So the Dixie Chicks, Merle Haggard and Wilco Walk Into a Bar: Perspectives in American Music and Culture : Amanda Petrusich, Don Cusic

10:00-11:00 am, Senate Chambers : Find Your Way Home: Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart : Becca Stevens

10:30-11:30 am, Capitol Library : I Choose to Be Happy: A School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy : William Croyle, Missy Jenkins

10:30-11:30 am, Children's Stage : The Adventures of Octopus Rex : Barbara Hart

11:00-12:00 noon, Café Stage : The Fedora Brothers : Bruce Nemerov

11:00-12:00 noon, House Chambers : Olive Kitteridge: Fiction : Elizabeth Strout

11:00-12:00 noon, Old Supreme Court Room : Life is a Gift: Inspiration from the Soon Departed : Bob Fisher, Judy Fisher

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 12 : On Beale Street : Ronald Kidd

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 16 : Master of the Delta : Thomas H. Cook

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 29 : Spirit of Nashville: The Art and Soul of Music City : Joel Anderson

11:00-12:30 pm, Room 30 : Illustrative Writing: Penning Perfect Picture Books : Lynne Berry, Laurel Snyder, Mike Artell

11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers : Girls, Trucks, and Dairy Queen: Southern Novels : Katie Crouch, Susan Gregg Gilmore

11:00-12:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6 : Heartbreak and Hope: Novel Approaches to Teen Issues : Heather Hepler, Varian Johnson, David Macinnis Gill

11:00-12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008 : Clyde Edgerton, Ron Rash, Bret Anthony Johnston, David James Poissant

11:30-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Crisis Points: Fictional Heroines Survive and Thrive : Cary Holladay, Sheila Ortego, Joy Jordan-Lake

11:30-12:30 pm, Food Stage : Around the Opry Table: A Feast of Recipes and Stories from the Grand Ole Opry : Kay West

11:30-12:30 pm, Room 31 : The Moveable Nest: A Mother-Daughter Companion : Marilyn Kallet, Jessie Janeshek, Alice Friman

12:00-1:00 pm, Café Stage : Les Kerr

12:00-1:00 pm, Children's Stage : The Amazing Step-By-Step Art Card Studio : Linda Ragsdale

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : City of Refuge: A Novel : Tom Piazza

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Fraternal Bonds and Haunting Pasts: Two Mysteries : Martin Clark, Lee Martin

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : Score! 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire : Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson : Brenda Wineapple

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times : Beverly Bond, Janann Sherman, Linda T. Wynn

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : "A Very Calm Presence" — Two Stories of Family, Friends and Healing : Sigourney Cheek, Robert Rummel-Hudson

12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Authors and Illustrators: Collaborators and Loners : Sallie Lowenstein, Stacey R. Kaye, Elizabeth Dulemba, Martha Hannah, Larry Dowell

12:30-2:00 pm, Sheraton Suite 6 : Mystery Men: Three Authors Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat : Roger Reid, Jack Ferraiolo, William Sleator

1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage : Davis Raines

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : Keen Perceptions and Rhythmic Language: Award-Winning Poets : Geoffrey Brock, Lisa Williams

1:00-2:00 pm, Food Stage : Autumn Gatherings: Casual Food to Enjoy with Family and Friends : Rick Rodgers

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World : David Maraniss

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Future of the Past: Novels of a Fantastical South : Frank Durham, Hubert Whitlow

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out : Mary Brigid Barrett, Patricia McKissack, Fredrick McKissack, Lynda Johnson Robb

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : Lush Life : Richard Price

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : The End of Slavery, the Struggle for Equality: Portraits in Fiction and History : David Fuller, Jacqueline Jones

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal : Lily Koppel

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War and Peace at the Congress of Vienna : David King

1:00-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Singer/Songwriter/Author: Marshall Chapman, RB Morris, Tommy Womack : Marshall Chapman, Tommy Womack, R.B. Morris

1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage : Audio Books for Kids : Katherine Kellgren, Ellen Myrick, Brian Hull

2:00-3:00 pm, Café Stage : Pat Haney

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic : Stan Ulanski

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : Made in the U.S.A. : Billie Letts

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir : Honor Moore

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3Guide to America's Original Outsider Music : Alice Randall, Carter Little, Courtney Little

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Don't Let My Mama Read This: A Southern Fried Memoir : Hadji

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29 : Hometown Favorite: A Novel : Chip Arnold, Bill Barton

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : A Tale of Self-Publishing: The Road Less Traveled : Cindy G. Foust

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem : Michael Gunter

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Godfather's Revenge : Mark Winegardner

2:00-3:00 pm, Sheraton Suite 6 : Tipping the Scales: Humor and Body Image in Fictional Journeys : Susan Vaught, Suzanne Supplee

2:30-3:30 pm, Food Stage : Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns and Other Southern Delicacies : Julia Reed

2:30-3:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian : Sherman Alexie

2:45-3:15 pm, Children's Stage : A 20th Birthday Party for Lars the Little Polar Bear : Linda Ragsdale

3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage : Bruce Michael Miller

3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library : Chasing Wings: Birding Exploits and Encounters : Richard Modlin

3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers : A Guitar and a Pen : Robert Hicks, Marshall Chapman, Janis Ian, Bob McDill

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Vanishing America and Delta Cotton: Stories of Land and Place : James Conaway, Gerald Helferich

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too : Kay Gardiner, Ann Shayne

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16 : Serena: A Novel : Ron Rash

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 29 : Looking Deeper — Inspiration for Everyday : Sheg Aranmolate, Rena Johnson, Dick Watkins

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30 : On the Streets and in the Woods: Debut Novels : Andre Bergeron, James Cherry

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : Behind the Book: The Four Seasons of Cottonwood : Gary Slaughter

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue : John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed

3:00-4:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6 : Not Your Mother's Fiction: Modern Novels for Teens : D. Anne Love, Susan McBride, Kathryn Williams

3:15-3:45 pm, Children's Stage : I the Fly : Maggi Margaret Turner

3:30-4:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Prince of Frogtown : Rick Bragg

4:00-5:00 pm, Café Stage : Tommy Womack

4:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library : Parthenon Prize : Geoffrey Becker

4:00-5:00 pm, Children's Stage : The Sock Fairy and The Knot Fairy : Bobbie Hinman

4:00-5:00 pm, Food Stage : Amish Cooking with Sicily Yoder : Sicily Yoder

4:00-5:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere : Susan Orlean

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12 : Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana : Rheta Grimsley Johnson

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 16 : Nashville Public Library Foundation presents Sandra Tsing Loh : Sandra Tsing Loh

4:00-5:30 pm, Room 30 : The Class of 2k8: Three Debut Middle Grade Novelists Tell All : Jenny Meyerhoff, Laurel Snyder, Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31 : The God Dog Connection : Marti Healy

4:00-5:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Beyond the Biography of Jesus: The Journey of Quadratos, Book 1 : Alexander Shaia

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29 : Women's Coming of Age Stories from the Deepest South: Two Memoirs : Melissa Delbridge, Diane Wilson

4:30-5:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6 : Calling All Sleuths: Unraveling the Clues in Two Mystery Series : Tracy Barrett, Alan Gratz

5:00-6:00 pm, Room 31 : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Awards Presentation and Reading

Sunday, October 12, 2008

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : No Man's Land: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey : Scott Huler

12:00-1:00 pm, Food Stage : Live Radio Broadcast with the Saucy Sisters on WLAC 1510 : Barbara Nowak, Beverly Wichman

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Peace : Richard Bausch

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Literary Biographies: James Agee and William Carlos Williams : Neil Baldwin, Hugh Davis

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : They'll Tell My Story When I'm Gone: Legendary Songwriters : Tom Graves, Robert Earl Hardy

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority : Bob Moser

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : Crafting Killer Plots for Murderous Mysteries : Chester Campbell, Jennie Bentley, Elizabeth Terrell, Courtney Mroch

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : Keeping Tradition: Oral Histories from North Carolina : Lynn Salsi, Barbara R. Duncan

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign : Peter Cozzens

12:00-1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Story of Edgar Sawtelle : David Wroblewski

12:30-1:30 pm, Café Stage : Mt. Ararat Church Chorus and Praise Divas : Frankie Henry

12:30-1:30 pm, Children's Stage : A Party for the 20th Annual Southern Festival of Books : Linda Ragsdale

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : Puzzling Symptoms: How to Solve the Puzzle of Your Symptoms: A Handbook for Patients and Families : Clifton K. Meador

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Gravity Soundtrack : Erin Keane

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Nancy Culpepper: Stories : Bobbie Ann Mason

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : Beyond Breast Cancer: Write for Recovery : Leatha Kendrick, Maggi Britton Vaughn, Carole Brown Knuth

1:00-2:30 pm, Room 16 : Star Voices in the Audio Book World : Dan Gediman, Katherine Kellgren, Donna VanLiere

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks : Stephen W. Hines

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : Flawed, Funny and Unflinching: Two Novels : Squire Babcock, Scott Muskin

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Presents: Pep Talks, Warnings and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers : George Singleton

1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage : The Sock Fairy and The Knot Fairy : Bobbie Hinman

1:30-2:30 pm, Food Stage : Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef : Betty Fussell

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 29 : Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators : Rob Heller

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : Historical Hauntings: Stories of the Paranormal : Camille Moffitt Headley, Randy Russell

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : Run : Ann Patchett

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard : Philip Brady

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z : Phil Valentine

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : Rooted in Memory: Narratives of Stories Places : Jean-Philippe Cypres, Randall Norris, Stephen Doster

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era : Houston A. Baker, Jr.

2:30-3:30 pm, Café Stage : Teller Tales : Jo Carson

2:30-4:30 pm, Room 16 : The World's Bittersweetness: Four Poets : Bill Brown, Clint McCown, Earl S. Braggs, Linda Marion

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 29 : Finding the Meaning of it All: Memoirs About Family : Lise Funderburg, Carolyn Jourdan

3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library : Backdrop Nashville: Debut Novels Come to Town : Susannah Felts, Michael Snyder

3:00-4:00 pm, Children's Stage : The Ghost of Hampton Court : Martha Hannah

3:00-4:00 pm, Food Stage : Cheater BBQ: BBQ Anytime, Anywhere in Any Weather : Mindy Merrell, R.B. Quinn

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions : Frye Gaillard

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Tennessee Repertory Theatre presents "Writing the Perfect Screenplay" : William M. Akers, Steven Womack

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan : Donald Beagle, Bryan Giemza

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : Why Are You Mad? The First Significant Advance in Our Understanding of Mental Illness Since We Abandoned Demon Possession : Crawford Harris

3:00-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers : At Home and Abroad: Families During World War II : Tom Delvaux, Laurel Coleman Steinhice, Eric Youngquist

3:30-4:30 pm, Café Stage : Wilken Warren

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 29 : Perfect Partners: Two Books About Beloved Horses : Lisa Wysocky, Melanie Sue Bowles

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