2007: Larry Brown

Welcome

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Literature for Young Readers 1

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Karen Hesse

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Literature for Young Readers 2

Lauren Lanza, Square Books Jr. (Oxford, MS)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Pamela Pridgen, Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Sarah Combs, Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning

Oxford Conference Center

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford
Rick Bass
Kevin Canty
Ellen Douglas
Steven Rinella

Oxford Conference Center

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Larry Brown: Friends and Writers

Mark Richard

Oxford Conference Center

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Larry Brown on Music

Jonathan Miles, New York Times
Shane Brown
Clyde Edgerton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Alejandro Escovedo
Robert Earl Keen
Tim Lee
Ben Weaver

Oxford Conference Center

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Oxford Conference Center

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dinner (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Oxford Conference Center

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Breakfast with Russian Writers

Doug Robinson, University of Mississippi
Anastasia Chekhovskya
Elena Fanailova
Yana Tokareva
Tatyana Zima

Oxford Conference Center

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Readers/Remarks

Ethel Young-Minor, University of Mississippi
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Sarah Lawrence College
Shay Youngblood

Oxford Conference Center

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Nickole Brown, Sarabande Books
David Galef, University of Mississippi
Kimiko Hahn, City University of New York. Queens College.

Oxford Conference Center

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Exhibition; Light Lunch

Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
Jerry Leath "Jake" Mills, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Mississippi Hall of Writers
University of Mississippi. Libraries

J. D. Williams Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Larry Brown on Stage and Screen

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Richard Corley
Gary Hawkins, Duke University
Arliss Howard
Debra Winger

Oxford Conference Center

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Writing About Larry Brown

Jay Watson, University of Mississippi
Kay Bonetti Callison, American Audio Prose Library, Inc.
Suzanne W. Jones, University of Richmond
Matthew Guinn, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Oxford Conference Center

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Teaching Larry Brown

Margaret-Love Denman, University of New Hampshire
Jean W. Cash, James Madison University
John Osier
Steve Yarbrough, California State University, Fresno

Oxford Conference Center

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Editing Larry Brown

Patrick Quinn, University of Mississippi
Shannon Ravenel, Shannon Ravenel Books

Oxford Conference Center

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Catfish Dinner (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Oxford Conference Center

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

Conference Attendees

Bouré (Oxford, MS)

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Whad'dya Know? (Ticket required)

Michael Feldman, National Public Radio

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

11:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Barbecue Lunch (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Brandt Memory House

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Notebooks by Tennessee Williams: "Almost a New Literary Genre"

Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Margaret Bradham Thornton

Nutt Auditorium

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Readers/Remarks

Gary Fisketjon
Carlo Feltrinelli

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Readers/Remarks

Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
LeAnne Howe, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Remembering Larry Brown

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Billy Ray Brown
Mary Annie Brown
Lynn Hewlett, Taylor Grocery

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Writers Remember Larry Brown

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
Harry Crews
Andre Dubus III
Jill McCorkle

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM