1995: Pat Conroy

Dirty Work: Stage Version of Larry Brown's Novel

Scott McCoy

Hoka Theatre

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

How to Submit Manuscripts and Work with an Editor

Jennifer Allen
Andrei Codrescu
David R. Godine
Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi

Yerby Center Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

From Author to Reader

Mark Richard, University of Mississippi
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Geoffrey Wolff
Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi

Yerby Center Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

History of the Book in the South

Darden Asbury Pyron, Florida International University

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers in the Year 2002

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas State Board of Education
James Parins, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
George D. Penick, Foundation for the Mid South

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 and Remarks

Pat Conroy

Fulton Chapel

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Go, Little Book: Getting a Book to Readers

Julian Bach
Don Conroy
Pat Conroy
Eugene Norris
Marly Rusoff, Doubleday
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Books as Atoms, Books as Bytes

Len Vlahos

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Future of the Book? The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age

Sven Birkerts

Education Auditorium

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (On Your Own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Reading and Community: A View from the Tattered Cover

Joyce Meskis, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver, CO)
Harriet Beeson, Burke's Book Store (Memphis, TN)
Fred Beeson, Burke's Book Store (Memphis, TN)

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Alternatives to Conglomerate Publishing

David R. Godine
André Schiffrin, Pantheon Books

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Readings

Ann Patchett
Geoffrey Wolff

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Reading Groups and Book Clubs

Mary Gay Shipley
Michael McDonnell, West Union Corporation
William Pearson
Marly Rusoff, Doubleday

Education Auditorium

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Literature and Community: Comments and Readings

David Guterson, Harper's
Margaret Skinner

Education Auditorium

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Brunch

Conference Attendees

Union Ballroom

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Kudzu: Creating a Musical Based on a Comic Strip

Doug Marlette, New York Newsday
Red Clay Ramblers

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Reception

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books, Oxford MS

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Jambalaya and Musical Finale (Blue Jeans)

R. L. Burnside and the Sound Machine
The Velvetones

The Gin, Oxford MS

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM