1994: Conversation with John Grisham and Stephen King

Area Tours

Conference Attendees

Departing from the Barnard Observatory

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Submitting Manuscripts

Larry Brown
Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

From Author to Reader

Stanley W. Lindberg, University of Georgia; Georgia Review
Mary Gay Shipley, Book Rack; American Booksellers Association
Wendy Weil, Wendy Weil Agency, Inc.
Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

History of the Book in America

Richard H. Brodhead, Yale University

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Future of the Book? The Interactive Book and Other Developing Book Technology

Bernard Rath, American Booksellers Association
John Y. Cole, Library of Congress
Laurence Kirshbaum, Warner Books

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Cocktail Buffet (Black Tie Optional)

Conference Attendees

City Grocery, Oxford MS

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Readings

Tom Drury
Donna Tartt
Charles Simic, University of New Hampshire

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

What Authors Don't Know About Copyright --And Neither Do Publishers

Stanley W. Lindberg, University of Georgia; Georgia Review
Charles Robinson, American Booksellers Association

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers in the Year 2000

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas State Board of Education
Jim Dees, Project LEAP (Learn, Earn, and Prosper)
Elizabeth Dollarhide, Project LEAP (Learn, Earn, and Prosper)
Margaree King Mitchell
James Ransome
Cathy Stewart

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (On Your Own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Shifting Landscape of Bookselling

Charles Robinson, American Booksellers Association
Mitchell Kaplan, Books and Books; Miami Book Fair International

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Go, Little Book: Getting a Book to Readers

Mitchell Kaplan, Books and Books; Miami Book Fair International
Paul Bogaards, Arthur A. Knopf
Gary Fisketjon, Alfred A. Knopf
Donna Tartt

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Readings

Louise Glück
Caryl Phillips
Daniel Halpern, Antaeus

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Granta: the Making of a Major Literary Magazine

Rea Hederman, New York Review of Books; Granta
Bill Buford, Granta
Richard Ford

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Paradox of Poetry

Daniel Halpern, Antaeus
Louise Glück
Charles Simic, University of New Hampshire

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Brunch

Conference Attendees

Downtown Grill, Oxford MS

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

As I Lay Dying: Creating a Country Blues Opera Based on Faulkner's Novel

Michael Ching, Opera Memphis
David Olney
Tommy Goldsmith, Tennessean
Tom House, Raw Bone
Evans Harrington, University of Mississippi
Donald Kartiganer, University of Mississippi
Karen Tiller, Opera Memphis

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Surviving Success: Bestselling Authors Tell (Almost) All

John Grisham
Stephen King

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Reception; Exhibition of John Grisham's A Time to Kill; Tour of Seymour Lawrence Room for Writers

Conference Attendees

J. D. Williams Library

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Jambalaya and Musical Finale (Blue Jeans)

Conference Attendees

The Gin, Oxford MS

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM