ALA Picks and Pans:
Authors & Celebrities
By John N. Berry III -- Library Journal, 6/1/2002
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Jack Canfield
(Chicken Soup for the Soul)
Sponsored by HCI. Georgia
World Congress Center (GWCC) Auditorium, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Inspirational stories
as always, but this time for 'the Librarian's Soul.'
Tony Hillerman (The Wailing Wind)
William Diehl (Eureka)
Paul Robeson Jr. (The Undiscovered Paul Robeson)
Ann B. Ross
(Miss Julia Takes Over)
Author! Author! FOLUSA's Annual Author Luncheon, Omni Sheraton Atrium, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Authors talk, read, and sign at this annual institution. Tickets are available in advance for $40 at www.folusa.org; $50 at the door, pending
availability.
Richard Jackson (Half Lives), 1-1:30 p.m.
Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders), 1:30-2 p.m.
Renate Dorrestein (A Heart of Stone), 2-2:30 p.m.
Natasha Trethewey (Bellocq's[OK] Ophelia), 3-3:30 p.m.
Kwame Dawes
(Midland), 3:30-4 p.m.
ALA PPO, Poets House. LIVE! @
your library Pavilion,
Aisle 22.
Jill McCorkle (Carolina Moon)
Lee Smith
(Fair and Tender Ladies)
Songs from Good Ol' Girls,
GWCC Auditorium, 3:30-5 p.m. Described as a 'feminist literary country music
review,' this cabaret-style musical features stories by two Southern 'good 'ol
girls,' with songs performed by Matraca Berg and Marshall Chapman. Presented by
ALA PPO, LIVE! @ your library.
Robert Hughes
(American Visions)
ALA Opening General Session, GWCC Auditorium, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The erudite author and Time magazine critic on race, diversity, and the arts.
Barron H. Lerner (Breast Cancer Wars)
Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
Manil Suri (The Death of Vishnu)
RUSA CODES Notable Books Council-Literary Tastes: Notable Books Breakfast, Hyatt, International Ballroom, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Fees: members: $30, nonmembers: $36.
Jill McCorkle (Creatures of Habit)
Lee Smith
(Fair and Tender Ladies)
Culture Unplugged: Authors,
Artists and Musicians LIVE! @ your library, GWCC B306, 8:30-10 a.m. Performance
and discussion with project staff and recipients of grants to libraries for
presenting literary, visual, and performing artists.
David Levy
(Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age)
LITA, Hilton Salon E/D, 10:30 a.m.- noon. Computer scientist and
author Levy discusses the role of documents and libraries in the search for
stable ground following a disaster like September 11. Book signing follows.
Margaret Maron (Slow Dollar)
David Morrell (Long Lost)
David Rosenfelt (Open and Shut)
Kate White
(If Looks Could Kill)
Lunch with Mysterious Press, Warner Books, and LJ. Ritz-Carlton, III-IV, noon-2 p.m. Cosmo
editor White was a hit at BookExpo, too; Rosenfelt is also a first novelist; and Maron and Morrell are old hands. Not to be missed. Tickets: $35 until June 10. Send checks (payable to Library Journal) to Shari Goldsmith, LJ, 245 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011. Some tickets
available at the AOL/Time Warner booth, 1937.
Willie Perdomo (Where a Nickel Costs a Dime ), 1-1:30 p.m.
Terrence Cheng (Sons of Heaven), 1:30-2 p.m.
Tina McElroy Ansa (You Know Better), 2-2:30 p.m.
Kate Rushin (The Black Back-Ups), 3-3:30 p.m.
Coleman Barks
(Gourd Seed), 3:30-4 p.m.
ALA PPO, Poets House. LIVE!
@ your library Pavilion, Aisle 22.
Ben Stein Gale
booth, 1-4 p.m.,
to host a game show. Winners will receive a T-shirt that says, 'Ben Stein thinks I know everything.'
John Biguenet (Oyster)
Ronda Rich (My Life in the Pits)
Mary Robison (Why Did I Ever)
George Singleton (Half Mammals of Dixie)
Velma Maia Thom
(Lest We Forget)
FOLUSA 'Southern Voices.' GWCC Room B306, 1:30- 3:30 p.m. LJ's Barbara Hoffert will
moderate.
Jim Grimsley
(Comfort and Joy)
GLBTRT Annual Book Awards Breakfast, Renaissance Hotel, Georgia East, 7:30-10 a.m. Grimsley, one of the keynote speakers, was a 1996 GLBT Literature Award Winner for Dreamboy. Tickets: $50.
Dave Johnson (Marble Shoot)
Willie Perdomo (Where a Nickel Costs a Dime)
Kate Rushin
(The Black Back-Ups)
Sponsored by Poets House, these
poets, along with representatives of the organization, will discuss how to turn
your library into a center for discovery of poetry. Go for either part or the
whole day. GWCC B403, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Michael Moore
(Stupid White Men)
ALA Better Salaries & Pay
Equity TF and epixtech Corp. GWCC Auditorium, 9-10 a.m. Moore credits librarians
with helping to ensure his book came out, so no doubt we'll hear thanks amid his
canny rants about those 'stupid white men.'
Jean Braselton (A False Sense of Well Being)
Terrence Cheng (Sons of Heaven)
Stephen Marion (Hollow Ground)
Brad Watson
(The Last Days of the Dog-Men)
FOLUSA's And You Knew Them When: First Novel, First Book. GWCC, Rm. B311, 10-noon. LJ's Barbara Hoffert, who's been tracking first novels
and novelists for years, talks to four new fiction writers.
Jim Grimsley
(Comfort and Joy)
ALA GLBTRT. Read Out in the South. Renaissance, Georgia West, 10:30-noon. Grimsley headlines the Southern authors, poets and librarians who will read aloud from GLBT-themed literature.
Pearl Cleage (I Wish I Had a Red Dress), 1-1:30 p.m.
Carmen Agra Deedy (The Yellow Star), 1:30-2 p.m.
Terry Kay (To Dance with the White Dog), 2-2:30 p.m.
Shelby Hearon (Ella in Bloom), 2:30-3 p.m.
Travis Hunter (Married but Still Living), 3-3:30 p.m.
Jeanne Braselton
(A False Sense of Well Being ), 3:30-4 p.m.
ALA
PPO, Poets House. LIVE! @ your library Pavilion, Aisle 22.
Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down)
Carl Gottlieb (Jaws screenwriter)
Ken Nolan
(Black Hawk Down screenwriter)
FOLUSA's From Cover to Screen, GWCC A311, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Newmarket Press Executive Editor Keith Hollaman and Hollywood insiders on books into movies- there'll be behind-the-scenes footage, too.
Karen Grigsby Bates (Plain Brown Wrapper)
A'Lelia Bundles (On Her Own Ground)
Pearl Cleage (I Wish I Had a Red Dress)
Vernon E. Jordan
(Vernon Can Read!)
BCALA Literary Awards, Hilton,
Salon C., 8-10 p.m. Presentation of fiction and nonfiction awards and honors.
Mildred D. Taylor (The Land)
Jerry Pinkney (Goin' Someplace Special)
Jerome Lagarrigue
(Freedom Summer)
33rd Annual Coretta Scott King Awards Breakfast, and Mrs.
King herself is expected to attend the event in her hometown. Marriott Z Marquis
Balloom, 7-9 a.m. Tickets available at
registration: $40
Barbara Ehrenreich
(Nicked and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America)
ALA Closing General Session, GWCC Auditorium, 8-9 a.m. Author
Ehrenreich took low-paying jobs in several cities and reported back how hard it
is to truly support yourself. Librarians worried about their financial lot may
feel both relief and inspiration.
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