SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AUDITORIUM
11 AM
10 AM
(Bldg 1, 2nd Fl.)
RED AUTOGRAPHING AREA PROMETEO (Bldg 1, 1st Fl., Rm 1101)
10:30 a.m. Peter Matthiessen on Shadow Country
10:30 a.m. Linda Corley on The Kennedy Family Album: Personal Photos of America’s First Family
11:30 a.m. Wally Lamb on The Hour I First Believed: A Novel
11:30 p.m. Beth Dunlop and Joanna Lombard on Great Houses of Florida
12:30 p.m. Michael Cunningham on Specimen Days, Andrew Sean Greer on The Story of a Marriage: A Novel and Elizabeth Strout on Olive Kitteridge
2:30 p.m. Queer Culture, Straight Culture: Assimilation and Identity in the 21st Century with Dudley Clendinen, Dr. Fred Fejes, and Nina Revoyr. Moderated by Robert Rosenberg
NOVEMBER 9 - 16, 2008
CENTRE GALLERY (Bldg 1, 3rd Fl., Rm 1365) 10:30 a.m. Comix Galaxy Mim Harrison on The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill as Told Through Great Britain’s Eagle Comic, Ranen Omer-Sherman on The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, and Dan Herman, Publisher and Editor, Hermes Press
YELLOW AUTOGRAPHING AREA BATTEN
GREEN AUTOGRAPHING AREA CHAPMAN ROOM 3208/09
AUTOGRAPHING AT VENUE ROOM 3313/14
(Bldg 2, 1st Fl., Rm 2106)
(Bldg 3, 2nd Fl., Rm 3210)
(Bldg 3, 2nd Fl.)
(Bldg 3, 3rd Fl.) In Spanish
10:30 a.m. Peter Greenberg on Don’t Go There! The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must–Miss Places of the World and Eric Weiner on The Geography of Bliss
10:00 a.m. George Hamilton on his memoir, Don’t Mind If I Do
10:30 a.m. Ron Arons on The Jews of Sing- Sing: Gotham Gangsters and Gonuvim, Harvey Frommer on Remember Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built, and Peter Golenbock on In the Country of Brooklyn
10:30 a.m. El futuro es hoy Wendy Guerra, Adriana Lisboa, Andrés Neuman, Eduardo Halfón, Guadalupe Nettel, Iván Thays and Junot Díaz
12:00 p.m. Marshall I. Goldman on Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia, and Andrei Cherny on The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour
12:45 p.m. Literatura laureada Eduardo Lago and Elmer Mendoza
11:00 a.m. The Art of Biography with Edmund White on Rimbaud, Nancy Milford and Stacy Schiff on Rose Kennedy and Cleopatria, Les Standiford on How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career & Revived Our Holiday Spirits, James Atlas, moderator
Strout
2 PM
12:00 p.m. Mia Kirshner on I Live Here
Diaz 12:30 p.m. Carl Hiaasen on The Downhill Lie, and Roy Blount Jr. on Alphabet Juice:The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof
1:00 p.m. Comix Galaxy Chip Kidd on Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan, and Brad Meltzer on The Book of Lies
1 PM
NOON
Hamilton 12:00 p.m. Comix Galaxy Frank Beddor on Hatter M, The Looking Glass Wars, Volume One and Régis Loisel and Mohamed Aouamri on La Quete de l’Oiseau du Temps
Kidd
2:00 p.m. Junot Diaz on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A Novel, Amitav Ghosh on Sea of Poppies and Austin C. Clarke on More: A Novel
2:00 p.m. John Rechy on About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
2:00 p.m. Comix Galaxy Youme Landowne on Pitch Black, Alex Baladi on Frankenstein, Now and Forever, Stephanie McMillan on As the World Burns: 50 Things You Can Do To Stay in Denial, A Graphic Novel, and Ralph Penel Pierre on Malé Pandye
3:30 p.m. Stewart O’Nan on Songs for the Missing, David Wroblewski on The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, and Margot Livesey on The House on Fortune Street
3:00 p.m. David Leddick on The Male Nude: 21st Century Visions
3:30 p.m. Comix Galaxy Superheroes: The Secrets Behind the Masks: A panel discussion with Bill Rosemann, editor, Marvel Comics, Christos Gage, Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mike Perkins, Captain America, Stephen King’s The Stand, and Brian Reed, Ms. Marvel, Secret Invasion: Front Line
1:30 p.m. Hooman Majd on The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, Heraldo Muñoz on The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet, and Michael Soussan on Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
Blount Jr. 2:30 p.m. Michael Gates Gill on How Starbucks Saved My Life, Dudley Clendinen on Tales of the New Old Age in America, and Rick Bragg on The Prince of Frogtown
Del Risco
2:00 p.m. Senator Mel Martinez on A Sense of Belonging: From Castro’s Cuba to the U. S. Senate, One Man’s Pursuit of the American Dream
2:00 p.m. Ideas y actualidad Rafael Rojas and Enrique Del Risco
3 PM
Majd
3:00 p.m. Alonzo Mourning will sign books in the Atrium of Building 1
3:00 p.m. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. on Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out
3:00 p.m. Tom Hayden on Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader and Voices of the Chicago Eight: A Generation on Trial
3:15 p.m. Exposición latinoamericana Juan Carlos Botero, Mayra Montero and Pablo Simonetti
4:00 p.m. Dexter Filkins on The Forever War and Max Kennedy on Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
4:00 p.m. Jeffery Deaver on The Bodies Left Behind, Edna Buchanan on Legally Dead, and James Grippando on Last Call
4:45 p.m. Zoé Valdés piensa en Cuba
Filkinsa
4 PM
4:00 p.m. Peter Moruzzi on Havana Before Castro
AFT 5 PM
Matthiessen 5:00 p.m. Panel on Politics: The New Socialism of the XXI Century (in Spanish)
4:30 p.m. Sister Souljah on Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
Hiaasen 5:00 p.m. Rabbi M. Gary Neuman on The Truth About Cheating: Why Men Stray and What You Can Do to Prevent It
5:00 p.m. Comix Galaxy Yves Swolfs on Durango and Teddy Keser Mombrun on Alain Possible le roi farceurs
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6:00 p.m. PEN World Voices presents Salman Rushdie, joined by Nathan Englander for a discussion about The Enchantress of Florence, memory, black magic, philosophy, religion and more.
Valdés