2009: Walter Inglis Anderson

Registration begins

Conference Attendees

Barnard Observatory

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Exhibition and Lecture: The Landscape of Story; Light lunch

John Anderson
Patricia Pinson, Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi. Libraries

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford

Lyric Theater

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

And Wisdom is a Butterfly: The Travels of Walter Anderson

Esther Sparks, University of Mississippi
Christopher Maurer, Boston University
Richard Howorth, City of Oxford

Lyric Theater

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Bringing Walter Anderson to the World

William Dunlap
Patti Carr Black
Seetha Srinivasan, University Press of Mississippi

Lyric Theater

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Living with Walter Anderson: His Children Speak Out

JoAnne Prichard Morris, University Press of Mississippi
Bill Anderson
John Anderson
Leif Anderson
Mary Anderson Pickard

Lyric Theater

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Lyric Theater

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dinner with the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Literature for Young Readers 1

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Trenton Lee Stewart

Fulton Chapel

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Jay Asher
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Pamela Pridgen, Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, & Forrest County
Trenton Lee Stewart

Fulton Chapel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (on your own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Camille Dungy, San Francisco State University
James Kimbrell, University of Mississippi

Lyric Theater

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Eudora Welty's Collected Stories: 100th Birthday Celebration

Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Millsaps College
Ann Abadie, University of Mississippi

Lyric Theater

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Book Signing: Trenton Lee Stewart and Jay Asher

Trenton Lee Stewart
Jay Asher

Square Books Jr. (Oxford, MS)

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Portraying Politicians

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
Hodding Carter III, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Maraniss, Washington Post
Julia Reed, Newsweek

Lyric Theater

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Promoting Books and Authors

Lynda M. O'Connor
James V. O'Connor

Lyric Theater

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

Alicia Casey, University of Mississippi
Corinna McClanahan, University of Mississippi

Lyric Theater

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Literature for Young Readers 2

Susan Phillips, Lafayette County Literacy Council
Jay Asher

Nutt Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Writing After Katrina

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Emily Clark, Tulane University
Jerry W. Ward Jr., Dillard University
Joyce Zonana

Nutt Auditorium

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Readings and Remarks

Jesse Scott, University of Mississippi
Major Jackson, University of Vermont
Deborah Johnson, Genesis Press

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (on your own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Reviewing Books in Cyberspace

J. Peder Zane, News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
John Freeman, Granta
Haven Kimmel
Lydia Millet

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

Lyn Roberts, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Jack Pendarvis, University of Mississippi
John Pritchard
Steve Yarbrough, California State University, Fresno

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

News, Novels, and the Sport of Books

Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Leonard Downie Jr., Washington Post
John Freeman, Granta
Terry McDonell, Sports Illustrated Group

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Marathon Book Signing and Party Celebrating Granta and Square Books: 30 Years of American Literature

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM