Headline Events

Tuesday, March 25

7 p.m. Senior Center, Inc.
The Place to Be: An Evening with Roger Mudd

Wednesday, March 26
7:30 a.m. Omni Hotel
Business Breakfast
Roger Mudd
Sponsor: Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
Media Sponsor: WHTJ Charlottesville PBS.
Hosted by Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Noon, Central JMRL Library
Opening Ceremony:  Charles Shields
Local dignitaries, The Hook contest winners, Letters About Literature winners, and author Charles Shields (Mockingbird: a Portrait of Harper Lee and I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee)
Sponsors: The VFH Center for the Book and The Big Read in Virginia

6 p.m. UVa Culbreth Theatre
In Search of Irish America
Peter Quinn (Looking for Jimmy), Daniel Cassidy (How the Irish Invented Slang), Dan Barry (Pull Me Up), Maureen Dezell (Irish America: Coming into Clover), and T. J. English (Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster).
Sponsors: The Daily Progress and UVa Bookstore

8 p.m. UVa Culbreth Theatre
Wayward Sons: Fiction
Colm Toibin (The Master, Mothers and Sons ) and Nathan Englander (The Ministry of Special Cases)
Sponsors: The Daily Progress and UVa Bookstore

Thursday, March 27

11:45 a.m. Omni Hotel
Festival Luncheon: Jan Karon, 11:45 a.m. Omni Hotel
Pre-luncheon music by The Flashbacks.

6 p.m. UVa Culbreth Theatre
Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson
Sponsor: The Village School

8 p.m.  UVa Culbreth Theatre
Fiction Favorites:
With Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap series), Homer Hickam (Rocket Boys and The Red Helmut), Jill A. Davis (Ask Again Later)
Sponsor: City of Charlottesville

Friday, March 28

8:00 p.m. Albemarle County Office Building
Crime Wave: Murder, Murder Everywhere
Margaret Coel ,James W. Hall, David Ignatius, Jacqueline Winspear.
Sponsor:  County of Albemarle

8:00 p.m UVa Culbreth Theatre
A Poetry Evening
U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic (My Noiseless Entourage) and Charles Wright (Littlefoot)
Sponsor: Virginia Quarterly Review

Saturday, March 29

4:00 p.m. UVa Bookstore
An Afternoon of Poetry: Emerson and Trethewey
Sponsor: Best New Poets and the UVa Bookstore.

6:00 p.m.  UVa Carr’s Hill
Authors Reception: Hosted by the Honorable A. Linwood Holton, Jinks Holton, and Woody Holton
Shuttle sponsored by UVa Bookstore.

8:00 p.m Paramount Theater
Mike Farrell, Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist
Sponsors: The Paramount Theater and Covington International Travel.
Special thanks to Amnesty International Charlottesville Chapter 157 and Quest Bookshop.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets at The Paramount Box office, 979-1333, or theparamount.net

Sunday, March 30

4 p.m. The Paramount Theater
Walter Mosley: A Literary Life
To benefit for the Virginia Center for the Book.
Sponsors: The Paramount Theater, Covington International Travel, WMRA Public Radio, and Merrill Lynch, UVa Office of Diversity and Equity.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets at The Paramount Box office, 979-1333, or theparamount.net