Tentative List of Sessions

The official program will be available at the Festival, and updates will be posted there.
This page was last updated on 29 August 2008.

Friday, October 10, 2008

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, 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, House Chambers : Eyes to See, Volume II and Ancient Highways : Bret Lott

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Don Beisswenger, Joseph B. Ingle

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

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : : Shannon Burke, Debbie Lee Wesselmann

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

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 : : Dot Jackson, M. Glenn Taylor

1:00-2:30 pm, Room 31 : : Kip Gayden, Renee Russell, Leslie Walker Williams

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : : Adam Gussow, Ted Gioia

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

1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers : The Story of Edgar Sawtelle : David Wroblewski

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Down in Orbundale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida : Bobby Braddock

1:00-2:30 pm, Capitol Library : : Linda Marion, Patricia Waters, Thorpe Moeckel

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Dunbar Ogden, Sonya Ramsey

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, Room 16 : Toussaint Louverture: A Biography : Madison Smartt Bell

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

2:00-3:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Peter Cozzens, Tom Chaffin, Charles Price

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

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 31 : : Ed McClanahan, George Singleton

2:30-3:30 pm, Capitol Library : : Linda Lee Harper, Erin Keane

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

3:00-5:00 pm, Room 16 : 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

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

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 31 : Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan : Donald Beagle, Bryan Giemza

3:30-4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Darnell Arnoult, Dawn Shamp

3:30-5:00 pm, Senate Chambers : : John Chattin, Gerald Duff, Angus Woodward

3:30-5:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Dan Albergotti, David Rigsbee, Ed Madden

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

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12 : : Mary Buckner, Sallie Lowenstein

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

Saturday, October 11, 2008

9:00-11:00 am, Room 29 : : Ashley Crownover, Barry Kitterman, Padma Viswanathan, Lorraine Adams

9:00-10:00 am, Room 31 : : Charlie Lovett, Jennie Bentley

9:30-10:30 am, Capitol Library : : KB Ballentine, Kelly Moffett

10:00-11:30 am, Room 31 : : Don Cusic, Dana Jennings, Amanda Petrusich

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 16 : Serena: A Novel : Ron Rash

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers : Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting! : Sandra Tsing Loh

11:30-1:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Cary Holladay, Sheila Ortego, Joy Jordan-Lake

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, Room 29 : Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times : Beverly Bond

12:00-1:30 pm, Room 30 : : Roger Reid, Alan Gratz, William Sleator

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, House Chambers : City of Refuge: A Novel : Tom Piazza

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : : Sigourney Cheek, Robert Rummel-Hudson

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Martin Clark, Lee Martin

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12 : The Adventures of Douglas Bragg : Madison Jones

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29 : : 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, Room 16 : Lush Life : Richard Price

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

1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3Guide to America's Original Outsider Music : Alice Randall

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Frank Durham, Hubert Whitlow

1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Geoffrey Brock, Lisa Williams

1:00-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : : Marshall Chapman, Tommy Womack, R.B. Morris

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

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, Room 31 : The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem : Michael Gunter

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12 : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Presents: Pep Talks, Warnings and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers : George Singleton

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

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

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

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

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

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, Room 29 : : Sheg Aranmolate, Rena Johnson, Dick Watkins

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

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 : Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul : Karen Abbott

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

3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : James Conaway, Gerald Helferich

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30 : : Andre Bergeron, James Cherry

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 31 : The God Dog Connection : Marti Healy

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

4:00-5:00 pm, Room 16 : : Katie Crouch, Susan Gregg Gilmore

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

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

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, Senate Chambers : Beyond the Biography of Jesus: The Journey of Quadratos, Book 1 : Alexander Shaia

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29 : : Melissa Delbridge, Diane Wilson

4:30-5:30 pm, Room 31 : Tennessee Writers' Alliance Awards Presentation and Reading :

Sunday, October 12, 2008

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29 : : Chester Campbell, Jennie Bentley, Elizabeth Terrell, Courtney Mroch

12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31 : : Lynn Salsi, Barbara R. Duncan

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

12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : : Susannah Felts, Michael Snyder

12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : : Neil Baldwin, Hugh Davis

12:00-1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : The Bible Salesman : Clyde Edgerton

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

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, Room 31 : : Squire Babcock, Scott Muskin

1:00-2:30 pm, Room 16 : : Dan Gediman, Katherine Kellgren, Donna VanLiere

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

1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : James K. Polk: 1845-1849: The American Presidents Series : John Seigenthaler

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12 : The Blue Star : Tony Earley

1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30 : Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture : Stephen W. Hines

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

2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library : : Camille Moffitt Headley, Randy Russell

2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31 : : Jean-Philippe Cypres, Randall Norris, Stephen Doster

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, House Chambers : Run : Ann Patchett

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

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

2:30-3:30 pm, Room 29 : : Lise Funderburg, Carolyn Jourdan

2:30-4:00 pm, Room 16 : : Bill Brown, Clint McCown, Earl S. Braggs

3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12 : Your Screenplay Sucks! 100 Ways to Make it Great : William M. Akers

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 : : Tom Delvaux, Laurel Coleman Steinhice, Eric Youngquist

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

3:30-4:30 pm, Room 29 : : Lisa Wysocky, Melanie Sue Bowles

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