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Tentative List of Sessions

Numbered rooms are in the Legislative Plaza and all others are in the State Capitol Building across the street.

The official program will be available at the Festival, and updates will be posted there.
This page was last updated on 30 August 2010.

Friday, October 08, 2010

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt : T.J. Stiles

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : The Brutal Telling : Louise Penny

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : : Roy Morris, Jr., Michael Shelden

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 30 : What Doesn't Kill You : David James Poissant, Michael Knight, Kevin Watson

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : : Mindy Friddle, Lisa Patton

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Abducted By Circumstance: A Novel : David Madden

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming : Rheta Grimsley Johnson

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : : Melanie Benjamin, Ava Leavell Haymon

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : Burning Bright: Stories : Ron Rash

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : : Tasha Alexander, Pamela Ewen

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : : Bob Cowser, Jr., Richard Jay Hutto

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother: A Memoir : Bryan Batt

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response : Lynn Powell

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Richard Goode, David Dark

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Dorothy Sutton, Susan Underwood

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 30 : : Judy DiGregorio, Kirk Neely

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : : Jeffrey Jackson

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries : Molly Caldwell Crosby

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : The Night Bookcase : Audrey Niffenegger

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29 : The Life, Art and Times of Joseph Delaney, 1904-1991 : Fred Moffat

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : : Mark Heinz, Collin Kelley

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Democracy's Lawyer: : Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest (Southern Biography Series) : J. Roderick Heller

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : John Brandon, Brian Ray

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : Joseph Gavi: Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto : Carlton Jackson

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 30 : : Lou Dischler, Glenn Taylor

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Somebody Stole the Cornbread from My Dressing: A Hilarious Comparison Between the North and South Through Recipes and Recollections : Elizabeth Heiskell, Susanne Young Reed

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 29 : Still Crazy After All These Years: Nashville Writers Alliance : Phyllis Gobbell, Alana J. White, Squire Babcock, Steven Womack, Mary Buckner

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : : Raymond Atkins, Richard Reed

3:00-4:00 pm, House Chambers : Bliss, Remembered : Frank DeFord

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : King, Ship and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure : Dewey Lambdin

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Commencement: A Novel : Courtney Sullivan

3:30-5:00 pm, Room 16 : Pulpwood Queens 1 : Kathy Patrick

3:30-5:00 pm, Room 30 : : Sherry Robinson, Martha Whitmore Hickman, Jen Stephens

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31 : : Mike Guillerman, Aeron Haynie

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29 : Stories of Racial Healing : Phyllis Unterschuetz, Gene Unterschuetz

Saturday, October 09, 2010

9:00-10:00 am, Room 30 : Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker : Stephen Lyn Bales

9:00-10:00 am, War Memorial Auditorium : SPHDZ Book #1! (Spaceheadz) : Jon Scieszka

9:00-10:00 am, Capitol Library : Help Healing Happen : Carole Brown Knuth, Janny Adkins

9:30-10:30 am, Room 16 : : Timothy B. Smith, Ross Massey

9:30-11:00 am, Room 29 : : Tricia Mills, Jessica Verday, Loretta Ellsworth

10:00-11:00 am, Room 12 : The Devil Among the Lawyers : Sharyn McCrumb, Adam Edwards

10:00-11:00 am, Room 30 : : Michael Knight, Mark Mustian

10:00-11:00 am, Room 31 : : Susan Gregg Gilmore, River Jordan

10:00-11:00 am, House Chambers : More Davids Than Goliaths : Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.

10:00-11:00 am, Senate Chambers : : Amy Greene, Mary Helen Stefaniak

10:00-11:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics and Civil Society : Janet Flammang

10:00-11:00 am, Capitol Library : : Minrose Gwin, Stacey Lynn Brown

10:30-12:00 noon, Room 16 : : Alex Heard, Charlie Euchner, Jay Jennings

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 12 : Compass Rose : John Casey

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 29 : : Tom Angleberger, Michael Buckley

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 30 : Ledgers of History: William Faulker, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary : Sally Wolff

11:00-12:00 noon, Room 31 : : Jim Minick, Adrienne Martini

11:00-12:00 noon, War Memorial Auditorium : Fresh Medicine: How to Fix Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System : Phil Bredesen

11:00-12:00 noon, House Chambers : Going Away Shoes : Jill McCorkle

11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers : Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States : Hiroshi Motomura

11:00-12:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Michael Fazio, Christine M. Kreyling, Bob Schatz

11:00-12:00 noon, Capitol Library : : Tim Peeler, Worthy Evans

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 12 : : Ron Rash, Brad Watson, William Gay

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16 : Mr. Peanut : Adam Ross

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 29 : : Shane Berryhill, Chris Grabenstein, John Claude Bemis

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30 : Color Me Butterfly: A Novel Inspired by One Family's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph : L.Y. Marlow

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : Notes on the Mexican War, 1846-1848 : Nathaniel Hughes, Jr., Timothy Johnson

12:00-1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us : Robert Putnam, David E. Campbell

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : Lark and Termite : Jayne Ann Phillips

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse : James L. Swanson

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Poems of Abu Said : Reza Ordoubadian

12:30-1:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories : Michael Sims

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16 : Freedom Summer: The Summer that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America A Democracy : Bruce Watson

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Buck Owens: The Biography : Eileen Sisk

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31 : Global Connections and Local Receptions: New Latino Immigration in the Southeast : Fran Ansley

1:00-2:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion : Mo Willems

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : Adam & Eve: A Novel : Sena Jeter Naslund

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : The Myth of Digital Democracy : Matthew Hindman

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Kevin Brown, Laura Still

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 12 : Something is Out There: Stories : Richard Bausch

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 29 : : Sara Lewis Holmes, Dana Reinhardt

1:30-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : J.T. Ellison, Libby Fisher Hellmann, Erica Spindler

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16 : Midnight : Beverly Jenkins

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : : June Hall McCash, Diann Ducharme

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : : Bill Brown, Bobby Rogers

2:00-3:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South : Patrick E. Johnson

2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers : Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin : W. Hampton Sides

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : : Helen Simonson, Susanna Daniel

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : God's Lunatics: : Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine : Michael Largo

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 12 : : Catherine Ryan Hyde, Ellen Wittlinger

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 29 : Who Says Dystopia Can't Be Fun? - Worlds gone wrong and we're along for the ride : Brian Yansky, Paolo Bacigalupi

2:30-4:30 pm, Nashville Public Library : Film Presentation "Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird" : Mary Murphy

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16 : Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter : Tom Franklin

3:00-4:30 pm, Room 30 : : Matthew Pitt, Justin Taylor, Alex Taylor

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31 : Cottonwood Spring : Gary Slaughter

3:00-4:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : They Came to Nashville : Marshall Chapman, Jill McCorkle

3:00-4:00 pm, House Chambers : The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel : Jefferson Bass

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Dracula in Love : Karen Essex

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America : John Kasson

3:00-4:30 pm, Capitol Library : Songs of Home : Maggi Britton Vaughn, Margaret Edds, Kory Wells

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 12 : In the Footsteps of Champions: The University of Tennessee Lady Vols, the First Thirty Years : Susan Thornton

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 29 : : Gail Jarrow, Camilla Wilson

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 16 : Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine : Max Watman

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31 : A Change Had to Come : Gwynne Forster

4:00-5:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger : Lee Smith

4:00-5:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative vs. Participatory Democracy : Diana Mutz

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29 : : Deborah Wiles, Ellen Wittlinger

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 30 : : Jan Reynolds, Sarah Kaufman

Sunday, October 10, 2010

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : The Four Corners of the Sky : Michael Malone

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 16 : Pulpwood Queens II : Kathy Patrick

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : : Marina Budhos, Suzanne Supplee

12:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Music City Romance Writers : Trish Milburn, Jennie Bentley, Ramona Richards, Annie Solomon, Jody Wallace, Beth Pattillo

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 31 : : Tammy Algood, Devon O'Day, Amy Lyles Wilson, Patsy Caldwell

12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers : A Reliable Wife : Robert Goolrick

12:00-1:30 pm, House Chambers : Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit : Sonny Brewer, Rick Bragg, William Gay

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : : Sherre Hoppe, Jay Varner, Dennie Burke

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Hermitage at 100: Nashville's First Million-Dollar Hotel : W. Ridley Wills, II

12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Tennessee's New Abolitionists: the Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State : Amy Sayward, Margaret Vandiver

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : Nashville Chrome : Rick Bass

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : : Shadra Strickland, Jewell Parker Rhodes

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : : Holly LeCraw, Robin Oliveira

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Family Hiking in the Smokies: Time Well Spent : Hal Hubbs, Charles Maynard

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Rachel Held Evans, Matthew Paul Turner

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : : David Rigsbee, Arthur Stewart

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 16 : Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food that Makes Everyone Feel Like Family : Christy Jordan

1:30-2:30 pm, Room 31 : : Clyde Bolton, David Donovan

1:30-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Cardturner : Louis Sachar

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Torment : Lauren Kate

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29 : : Melissa Conroy, S.J. Fore

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30 : Historic Tennessee : James A. Crutchfield, Robin Hood

2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement : Patricia Sullivan

2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : My Lie: A True Story of FAlse Memory : Meredith Maran

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : To Kill A Tiger: A Memoir of Korea : Jid Lee

2:30-4:00 pm, Room 16 : : George Zepp, John Simpson

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 31 : : Mark Greaney, Keith Thomson

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present : Martha Simmons

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 29 : : Loretta Ellsworth, Kerry Madden

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30 : Robert Penn Warren After Audubon: The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry : Joseph Millichap

3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along : Tom Bruscino

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work : Scott Huler

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 31 : Don't Let Me Go: What My Daughter Taught Me About the Journey Every Parent Must Make : David Pierce

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 29 : Making History Leap off the Page: Writing Historical Fiction for Kids : Tracy Barrett, Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

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