2017: Remembering Harry Crews

Welcome Lunch and Lecture

Jay Satterfield, Dartmough College

J. D. Williams Library

11:00 AM - 1:15 PM

How to Make a Book

George Gibson, Grove Atlantic

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Conservation Conversations: Creativity in Nature Writing

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, University of Mississippi
J. Drew Lanham, Clemson University
Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Reading and Conversation

Peter Heller

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Big Bad Book Conference Meet the Authors Party

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom House

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Remembering Harry Crews, Chronicler of the Roughneck South

Ted Geltner, Valdosta State University
Tom Thurman, Kentucky Educational Television

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Radical South Lecture: Narrating Activism in the 1960s

Sharon Monteith

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch on your own

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Art of Kate Freeman Clark

Carolyn Brown
Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi
Beth Batton, Oaks House Museum
James G. Thomas Jr., University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi Museum

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

University of Mississippi Museum

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Poetry on the Square

Carolyn Hembree, University of New Orleans
Alison Pelegrin, Southeastern Louisiana University
Rodney Jones, Warren Wilson College
Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi

Southside Gallery

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Film screening: Harry Crews, Guilty as Charged

Tom Thurman

Lamar Hall 129

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Children's Book Festival: 1st graders

Chris Van Dusen

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Futureproofing Literature: Preaching to a New Choir

Lisa Lucas, National Book Foundation

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Children's Book Festival: 5th graders

Chris Grabenstein

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Talk and Lunch

Alison Pelegrin, Southeastern Louisiana University

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Working with an Editor: An Editor and Author in Conversation

Lee Boudreaux, Lee Boudreaux Books
Michael Farris Smith

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Reading and Remarks

Beth Macy

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Draggin' Dixie Out of the Dark

Trae "The Liberal Redneck" Crowder
Drew Morgan
Corey Ryan Forrester

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Reading and Conversation

Hari Kunzru
David Shirley

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Closing Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

WellRED Comedy Tour

Trae "The Liberal Redneck" Crowder
Drew Morgan
Corey Ryan Forrester

Lyric Theater (Oxford Square)

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM