List of Sessions

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

The official program will be available at the Festival, and updates will be posted there.
This page was last updated on 04 October 2007.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Noon–1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : All Over But the Shoutin' : Rick Bragg

Noon–1:30 pm, Room 16 : Sisters in Crime Presents: Sex and Violence: Is Too Much Ever Enough? : Robert Hicks, Tasha Alexander, J.T. Ellison, Marcus Sakey

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 29 : The End of the World as We Know It : Robert Goolrick

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 30 : Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story : Roni Stoneman, Ellen Wright

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 31 : Winter Lightning: Guide to the Battle of Stones River : Matt Spruill

Noon–1:30 pm, Capitol Library : Dugouts and Gridirons: The Sports Culture of the South : John David Briley, John Simpson, Clay Travis

Noon–1:30 pm, House Chambers : The Poetics of Healing : Carole Brown Knuth, Andy Landis, Susan Smith, Millie Landis

Noon–1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich and Powerful Really Died : Michael Largo

Noon–1:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Uplifting Lives: Autobiographies and Biographies of Black Businessmen : Bobby Lovett, Roland Jones, Samuel Howard

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 29 : MoonPie: Biography of an Out-of-this-World Snack : David Magee

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 30 : The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen : Jane Van Ryan

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 31 : Tennessee's Wetlands and River Valleys: The Natural World Encounters Humans : Stephen Lyn Bales, Jim Johnson

1:00–2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Work Shirts for Madmen : George Singleton

1:30–3:00 pm, Room 16 : Grand Slam: One Writing Group, Four Women & Four Novels in 2007 : Darnell Arnoult, Lynn York, Pamela Duncan, Virginia Boyd

1:30–2:30 pm, Capitol Library : More Than a Place: The Origins of a Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt : Lisa DuBois

1:30–2:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Existential Realities: Two Novels : Rob Riggan, Charles Wilkinson

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 29 : Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley : Georgiana Kotarski

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 30 : Faces of the Civil Rights Movement: Diane Nash and Maxine Smith : Sherre Hoppe, Bruce Speck, Lisa Mullins

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 31 : Kick Butt: A Novel : Don Huber

2:00–3:00 pm, House Chambers : Boone: A Biography : Robert Morgan

2:00–3:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Best New American Voices 2008 : David James Poissant, Sharon May, Lauren Groff

2:30–3:30 pm, Capitol Library : The Dead Don't Dance (A Novel of Awakening) : Charles Martin

3:00–4:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers : Elizabeth Edwards

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 16 : Lyrics and Lyricism: A conversation on poetry and songwriting : Marshall Chapman, Tom Kimmel

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 29 : Seeking Self: An Inner Journey to Healthy Relationships : Stephan McLaughlin

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 30 : Madness and Mirth: Short Stories from the Deep South : Jennifer Davis, Paul Ruffin

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 31 : With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside : Joe York

4:00-5:30 pm, Room 16 : Is Self-Editing an Oxymoron? : Lonnie Cruse, Chris Roerden, Pat Meller

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 29 : Middle Tennessee 1775–1825 : Kristofer Ray

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 30 : Letters of the Blue and the Gray : Stephen Towne, Jennifer Ford

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 31 : Literary Cash : Vernell Hackett, Leigh Edwards

4:00–5:00 pm, Capitol Library : I Didn't Know That: From Ants in the Pants to Wet Behind the Ears the Unusual Origins of the Things We Say : Karlen Evins

4:00-5:30 pm, House Chambers : What's Next for the Short Story? How the Form — and the market for it — is changing : Quinn Dalton, Erika Schickel, Daniel Wallace, Sonny Brewer, Kevin Watson

4:30–5:30 pm, Room 12 : Journeys through Space and Time: Along the Blue Ridge Mountains and Florida's Emerald Coast : Jean Lufkin Bouler, Casey Clabough

4:30–5:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland : William Lynwood Montell

Saturday, October 13, 2007

9:00–10:00 am, Room 12 : Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana and the Defense of the Red River : Steven Mayeux

9:00–10:00 am, Room 30 : A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign : Timothy Johnson

9:00–10:00 am, Room 31 : Moving Heaven and Earth: Southern Families Find Their Strengths : Nicole Seitz, Denise Hildreth

9:00–10:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room : Unique Voices from the Nashville Writing Community : Ralph Bland, Eddy Arnold

9:00–10:00 am, Senate Chambers : Kate's Pride : Renee Russell

10:00–11:00 am, Room 16 : Nancy Culpepper: Stories : Bobbie Ann Mason

10:00–11:00 am, Room 30 : A Shred of Truth : Eric Wilson

10:00–11:00 am, Room 31 : Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients : Robert Cochran

10:00–11:00 am, Capitol Library : The Poems of Hafez (trans.) : Reza Ordoubadian

10:00–11:00 am, House Chambers : Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone : Joshua Clark

10:00–11:00 am, Senate Chambers : When Nashville Fell: Forrest, Grant and the Civil War in the West : Michael R. Bradley, Jack Hurst

10:30 am–Noon, Old Supreme Court Room : Local Color, Clever Characters: Serial Mysteries : Alex Matthews, T. Lynn Ocean, Con Lehane

11:00 am–12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : New Stories from the South 2007 : Moira Crone, Cary Holladay, George Singleton, Daniel Wallace, Kathy Pories

11:00 am–Noon, Room 12 : Speechless: The Erosion of Free Speech in the American Workplace : Bruce Barry

11:00 am–Noon, Room 16 : Beyond Oil: Practical Solutions for Self-Sufficiency : Albert Bates, Paul Bures

11:00 am–Noon, Room 30 : From the Hills to the Honky Tonks: Two Country Legends : Bob Cox, Diane Diekman

11:00 am–Noon, Room 31 : Taking After Mudear : Tina McElroy Ansa

11:00-12:00, Capitol Library : How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation : Michael Nelson

11:00 am–Noon, House Chambers : Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure and the Man Who Dared to See : Robert Kurson

11:00 am–Noon, Senate Chambers : Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic : Erskine Clarke

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 12 : Austenland: A Novel : Shannon Hale

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 16 : Allegiance : Timothy Zahn

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 30 : The History of Beale Street : Beverly Bond

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 31 : A Different Kind of Honor : Robert Macomber

Noon–1:00 pm, Capitol Library : The Landscape Within: Two Poets Define the Indefinable : Brian Barker, Blas Falconer

Noon–1:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Sisters in Crime Presents: Tips and Insider Secrets on Getting Published : Tasha Alexander, Toni McGee Causey, Patry Francis, Derek Nikitas, Marcus Sakey, J.T. Ellison

Noon–1:00 pm, House Chambers : Songs Without Words : Ann Packer

Noon–1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Spirit of Nashville: The Art and Soul of Music City : Joel Anderson

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 16 : Digging In: Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard : Robert Benson

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 30 : The Country Music Anthology : Randy Rudder, Vernell Hackett, Bob Doershuck, Michael McCall, Bill Friskics-Warren

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 31 : Southern Views of the Civil War and After: Two Biographies : William Barney, Andrew Billingsley

1:00–2:00 pm, Capitol Library : Poems Both Tough and Tender : Lynnell Edwards, Keith Flynn

1:00–2:00 pm, House Chambers : Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette : Sena Jeter Naslund

1:00–2:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Please Take Me Home Before Dark: One Family's Journey with Alzheimer's Disease : Billie Pate, Mary Pate Yarnell

1:30–2:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Mountain Scenery and So Much More: Tourism in the Southern Highlands : Christopher Brenden Martin, Tim Hollis

2:00–3:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : Beyond the Body Farm : William Bass, Jon Jefferson

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 16 : Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and in Imagination : Michael Sims

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 30 : Cormac: Tale of a Dog Gone Missing : Sonny Brewer

2:00–3:00 pm, Room 31 : Tennessee Writers' Alliance presents Carolyn Howard-Johnson : Carolyn Howard-Johnson

2:00–3:30 pm, Capitol Library : Rhythms of the Natural World: Three Poets : Bill Brown, Rita Quillen, Connie Green

2:00–3:00 pm, House Chambers : Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War : Joe Bageant

2:00–3:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Southern Madams: Making it Through the Great Depression : Paula Wall, Julia Watts

2:30–3:30 pm, Room 29 : Women I've Known : Greg Johnson

2:30–3:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : The Storyteller's Voice: Writing as a Second Career : John Sims Jeter, Gary Slaughter

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 16 : The Dog Diet : Patti Lawson

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 30 : An Unfinished Canvas: A Story of Love, Family and Murder : Mike Glasgow, Phyllis Gobbell

3:00–4:00 pm, Room 31 : Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: Wit and Wisdom from Newlyweds and New Moms : Annabelle Robertson, Erika Schickel

3:00–4:00 pm, House Chambers : Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South : Roy Blount, Jr.

3:00–4:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System : David Weintraub

3:30–4:30 pm, Capitol Library : Drunk in Sunlight : Daniel Anderson

3:30–4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Walking a Tightrope: Debut Novels of Women Transforming Their Worlds : Lara Santoro, Carolyn Turgeon

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 12 : Desperate Ransom: Setting Her Family Free : Minton Sparks

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 16 : Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors : Lisa Alther

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 29 : Down in Orbundale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida : Bobby Braddock

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 30 : The Price of 40 Acres: Two Stories of Segregation : Vivian Gunn Morris, Curtis Morris, Dwonna Goldstone

4:00–5:00 pm, Room 31 : Robert E. Lee's Lighter Side: The Marble Man's Sense of Humor : Tom Forehand, Jr.

4:00–5:00 pm, House Chambers : Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Musician : Daniel Wallace

4:00–5:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship : John Baldwin

4:30–5:30 pm, Capitol Library : Interpreting Alabama: Poets Write of Their Homeland : Wayne Greenhaw, Virginia Gilbert

4:30–5:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Women Writers on Writing : Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rosemary Daniell

5:00–5:40 pm, Room 29 : Turn the Page and You Don't Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth : Patrick Oliver (editor)

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 12 : No Good Deeds: An Historical and Modern Look at Lethal Punishment : Margaret Vandiver, Carl Wedekind

Noon–1:00 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : You Can Lead a Politican to Water, but You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics : Kinky Friedman

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 16 : The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South: From Bright Hope to Frog Level, Second Serving : Fred Sauceman

Noon–1:00 pm, Room 30 : Guests Behind the Barbed Wire: German POWs in America: A True Story of Hope and Friendship : Ruth Beaumont Cook

Noon–1:30 pm, Room 31 : Second Acts in Fiction: Writing a Series : Robert Dalby, Karin Gillespie

Noon–1:00 pm, Capitol Library : Fighting Castro: A Love Story : Kay Abella

Noon–1:00 pm, House Chambers : William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers : Lisa C. Hickman

Noon–1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Bucolics : Maurice Manning

Noon–1:00 pm, Senate Chambers : Parallel Americas: Short Stories : Moira Crone, Lorraine Lopez

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 16 : One Mississippi : Mark Childress

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 29 : Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing : Katherine Henninger

1:00–2:00 pm, Room 30 : Come Hell or High Water: Southern Short Stories : Tamara M. Baxter, Jimmy Carl Harris

1:30–2:30 pm, Room 31 : Kentucky Summers: The Cave, the Cabin and the Tattoo Man : Tim Callahan

1:00–2:00 pm, Capitol Library : Epistles : Mark Jarman

1:00–2:00 pm, House Chambers : The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation : Gene Roberts

1:00–2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Thomas Jefferson on Wine : John Hailman

2:00–3:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium : New Enclyclopedia for Southern Culture: Foodways Edition : John T. Edge, John Egerton, Charles Reagan Wilson, Roy Blount, Jr., Martha Stamps

2:00–3:30 pm, Room 16 : Sisters in Crime Presents Writing with Criminal Intent : Lonnie Cruse, Mary Saums, E. Joan Sims, Elizabeth Terrell

2:00–3:00 pm, House Chambers : Games of Cat and Mouse: Thrillers : James O. Born, Steven James

2:00–3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Myth, Fairy Tale and Fable in Southern Fiction : Tito Perdue, William Gay

2:30–3:30 pm, Room 12 : Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember : Melody Golding

2:30–3:30 pm, Room 31 : Take the Long Way Home: Novels of Self-Discovery : J.L. Miles, Karen White

2:30–3:30 pm, Capitol Library : Rivers and Time: Two Poets : David Cazden, Tung-Hui Hu

2:30–3:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy : Frye Gaillard

3:30–4:30 pm, Room 12 : Looking for Goodwill : Pat Price, Scott Price

3:30–4:30 pm, Room 16 : From Perdition to Redemption: Novels of the Civil War : Richard Taylor, Michael White

3:30–4:30 pm, Room 29 : A Shot at Redemption: Novels of Fathers and Sons : John J. McLaughlin, Paul Shepherd

3:30–4:30 pm, Room 30 : Making Nashville Music City: WSM and Music Row : Michael Kosser, Craig Havighurst

3:30–4:30 pm, Room 31 : Enduring Classics, Troublesome Times: Biography and Essays on Harper Lee and Thomas Wolfe : Joanne Marshall Mauldin, Alice Hall Petry

3:30–4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room : Nashville's Newest Book Prize: The Making of a Contest — The Discovery of a Winner! The Parthenon Prize for Fiction 2007 : Kelly C. Falzone, Scott Muskin, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Honsberger

3:30–4:30 pm, Senate Chambers : Leftover Light : Thandiwe Shiphrah

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