2004: Walker Percy

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Editors and Authors, Cats and Dogs

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Gary Fisketjon, Alfred A. Knopf
Beverly Lowry, George Mason University
Bruce Murkoff

Education Auditorium

1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Robert E. Lee, Turtle Queens, and Other Southern Preoccupations

William Dunlap
Roy Blount Jr.
Julia Reed

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees
Tom House
Roy Blount Jr.
Mildred D. Taylor

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dinner, Meet the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Leigh Ann Morgan
Carol Hampton Rascoe, Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Susan Nichols, Lafayette County Literacy Council
Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Sharman Bridges Smith, Mississippi Library Commission

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcome

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Mildred D. Taylor Day in Mississippi

Ethel Young-Minor, University of Mississippi
Mildred D. Taylor
Jason S. Dean, Mississippi. Office of the Governor
Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford
Sharman Bridges-Smith, Mississippi Library Commission

Education Auditorium

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

Reception for Mildred Taylor

Conference Attendees

Education Auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (On your own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Walker Percy: His Life and Legacy

Paul Elie, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Lucius "Luke" Lampton
Mary Pratt Percy Lobdell
Robert Livingston Lobdell III
William Jay Smith
Patricia A. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Jamie Kornegay, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Gail Collins
Kaye Gibbons
Jon Meacham, Newsweek

Education Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Jonathan Galassi Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Graham Lewis, Eastern Illinois University
William Jay Smith

Education Auditorium

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Cocktail Party (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Submitting Manuscripts: Working One's Way Into Print

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Tom Bissell
Roy Blount Jr.
Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Margaret McMullan, University of Evansville
Amy Stolls, National Endowment for the Arts

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Paul Elie Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Gary Fisketjon, Alfred A. Knopf
Kaye Gibbons
Beverly Lowry, George Mason University
Julia Reed, Vogue

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Opening of Mississippi Mystery Writers Exhibition; Light lunch

Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
Jere Hoar, University of Mississippi
Julie Smith
Mississippi Hall of Writers

John Davis Williams Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Family Stories in Life and Fiction

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress
Ben W. McClelland, University of Mississippi
Margaret McMullan, University of Evansville

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Earth, Wind, and Fire

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
Tom Bissell
Alan Huffman
Sebastian Junger

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Adapting Fiction to the Musical Theater: William Faulkner, Connie Mae Fowler, Lee Smith, Others

Reckon Crew

Education Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Country Dinner (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Taylor, MS

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi
Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Janisse Ray, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Where We Stand: the Literature of Politics

Janisse Ray, University of Mississippi
Daniel T. Carter, University of South Carolina
Tony Dunbar
Randall Williams, NewSouth Books

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

David Galef, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM