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TUESDAY, MAY 24TH 2011
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH 2011
MIDTOWN STAGE
10:00 am YA Buzz Author, Michelle Hodkin
Host: Kristi Diehm, YA Blogger, thestorysiren.com
Guest: Michelle Hodkin, author, Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing
10:30 am YA Buzz Author Bill Willingham
Host: Heidi MacDonald, Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Beat
Guest: Bill Willingham, author, Down The Mysterly River, Starscape Tor /
Macmillan
11:00 am Lisa Tucker: Lyrical, Wise, and Witty
Host: MJ Rose, novelist and Founder, AuthorBuzz
Guest: Lisa Tucker, author, The Winters in Bloom, Atria
11:30 am My New American Life: Granta’s Best of Young Spanish language
novelists talk with Francine Prose
Host: Nuria Vilanova, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at
American University, Washington DC
Guests: Francine Prose, author of the novel My New American Life
(HarperCollins, April, 2011) and authors from Granta’s Best of Young Spanish
Language Novelists issue: Oliverio Coelho (Un hombre llamado Lobo, Duomo
ediciones, 2011), Javier Montes, (Segunda Parte, Pre-Textos, 2010), Carlos
Yushimito (Oz, Duomo ediciones, 2011)
12:30 pm Mark Bowden
Host: Scott Stossel, Managing Editor, The Atlantic
Guest: Mark Bowden, author, Worm: The Story of The First Digital World War,
Atlantic Monthly Press
1:00 pm The Cartoonists!
Host: Shannon Wheeler, author, Grandpa Won’t Wake Up, Boom! Studios
Guest: Roz Chast, author, What I Hate: From A to Z, Bloomsbury
1:30 pm Sci Fi / Fantasy: Tor Authors
Host: Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.com and science fiction/fantasy
reviewer for Shelf Awareness
Guests: Carrie Vaughn, author, Kitty’s Greatest Hits & Kitty’s Big Trouble,
Tor; John Scalzi, author, Fuzzy Nation, Tor; Vernor Vinge, author, The
Children of The Sky, Tor
2:00 pm Judy Moody Screenplay
Guest: Megan McDonald, author, Judy Moody; Jordana Beatty, actress, Judy
Moody And The Not Bummer Summer
2:30 pm Seed Passion: Heirloom Gardening
Host: Melissa Clark, author, Cook This Now, Hyperion
Guest: Jere Gettle, author, The Heirloom Life Gardener, Hyperion
3:00 pm Unexpected Turns
Host: Melissa Clark, author, Cook This Now, Hyperion
Guest: Molly Birnbaum, author, Season To Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell
and Found My Way, Ecco / HarperCollins
3:30 pm YA to Adult: An Author Perspective
Authors: Melissa de la Cruz, Witches of East End, Hyperion; Ellen Hopkins,
Triangles, Simon & Schuster; Melissa Marr, Graveminder, William Morrow
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
MIDTOWN STAGE
10:30 am Jennifer Close: Bookseller and Debut Author
Host: Stephanie Anderson, manager, Word Books
Guest: Jennifer Close, author, Girls In White Dresses, Knopf
11:00 am Olga Slavnikova: Major Author in Russian Letters
Host: Natasha Perova, Founder & Dir., Glas
Guest: Olga Slavnikova, author
12:00 pm Middle-Grade Buzz Fantasy Authors
Host: Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.com and science fiction/fantasy
reviewer for Shelf Awareness
Guests: Lisa McMann, author, The Unwanteds, Simon & Schuster Children's
Publishing; Matthew Kirby, author, ICEFALL, Scholastic Press; N.D. Wilson,
author, The Ashtown Burials #1: The Dragons Tooth, Random House Children’s
Books
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH 2011
UPTOWN STAGE
10:00 am Insight Stage Signature Event: Michael Moore
Guest: Michael Moore, author, Untitled, Grand Central
11:30 am Magic and Myth for Modern Middle-Grade Readers
Host: Jennifer Brown, children’s book reviewer, Shelf Awareness
Guests: Lauren Oliver, author, Liesl & Po, HarperCollins, Colin Meloy and
Carson Ellis, Wildwood, Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins
12:00 pm Dear Bully
Host: Ellen Hopkins, NYT bestselling author, Crank
Guests: Dear Bully contributing authors: Lisa McMann, Maryrose Wood, Megan
Kelly Hall
2:00 pm Paulo Coelho In Conversation
Host: Mike Masnick, Founder, TechDirt
Guest: Paulo Coelho, author, The Aleph, Knopf
3:00 pm Madison vs. Monroe
Host: Mark Skousen, editor/compiler of The Compleated Autobiography by
Benjamin Franklin
Guests: Chris DeRose, author of Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe and The
Election That Created The Bill Of Rights and Changed A Nation
3:30 pm The Intolerant Gourmet: Barbara Kafka
Host: Corby Kummer, Sr. Editor, The Atlantic
Guest: Barbara Kafka, author, The Intolerant Gourmet: Glorious Food Without
Gluten & Lactose
4:00 pm The Education Debate Host: Joel Klein, former New York City School
Chancellor
Guest: Dr. Steve Perry, author, Push Has Come To Shove: Getting Our Kids The
Education They Deserve – Even It Means Starting A Fight
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
UPTOWN STAGE
110:00 am Insight Stage Signature Event: Jane Lynch
Guest: Jane Lynch, author, Happy Accidents, Hyperionbr />
12:00 pm African American Books in an e-Book World
Host: Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati, literary contributor WURD-AM, founder The
Literary Media/Publishing Consulting
Guests: Eric Hamilton, Executive Dir., The Web Academy; Guy LeCharles
Gonzalez, Dir. Content & Digital Product Development, Library Journals, LLC;
Troy Johnson, Founder/Webmaster, African American Literature Book Club;
Booker T Mattison, Author/Filmaker; C. Jeffrey Wright, CEO, Urban
Ministries, Inc;
1:30 pm Insight Stage Signature Event: Jane Fonda
Guest: Jane Fonda, author, Prime Time, Random House
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