Following are some of the events planned for Words & Music. We will be filling in blanks daily, as we nail down schedules of arrivals and departures of faculty for Words & Music, so check back frequently. Those events on the schedule now are confirmed as to date and time.

Wednesday, November 17

10:00 a.m. to 11:30. — Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre.
MASTER CLASS FOR STUDENTS & TEACHERS

Address by National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien, author of
The Things They Carried and other novels and stories of the Vietnam War. O’Brien’s talk will be followed by intermission and advice session for writers led by George Bishop, author of A Letter to My Daughter and judge of the 2010 High School Short Story category of the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. George will present the 2010 winner at this event. Refreshments will be served at intermission. Free event on first come, first serve basis. Reservations are being received from teachers now. Early arriving faculty and registered guests of Words & Music are invited with advance RSVPs. Show W&M passes at door.

Noon to 2:00 p. m Muriel’s at Jackson Square
Cash bar opens at Noon, Luncheon Served at 12:30
SESSION ONE, LITERATURE & LUNCH
Recipes for The Madness of War
This opening session of Literature & Lunch, 2010, will feature New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund, whose latest novel Adam & Eve uses

an engaging thriller format to launch a brilliant discourse on religious literalism, fanaticism, intolerance, love, and the speculative future. Ms. Naslund, winner of the prestigious Harper Lee Award, will discuss how she was inspired by the dark nature of fundamentalism to write Adam & Eve. She will explore the concept of a "sacred book" and whether it can be tampered with or expanded, the ages-old conflict of science versus religion, the searing clash between evolutionists and creationists, and how religious literalism and intolerance fuel violence and the true madness: war. Ms. Naslund will be introduced by literary agent and former publisher Michael Murphy. Michael was Ms. Naslund's publisher for Ahab's Wife, when he was publisher at William Morrow. Ms. Naslund will sign at this event. We advise purchasing Ms. Naslund's book in advance from Faulkner House Books, which is offering a discount on books purchased for Words & Music. For more on Ms. Naslund, Click Here! Photo by Marion Ettlinger.

Note: all Literature & Lunch sessions are included in the “All Events Registration" packages. Otherwise, tickets are $60 per person. Advance reservations are required for each lunch. No tickets will be sold at door, as food establishments require final counts days in advance.. For admittance, present ticket, registration pass, or sponsor pass.

2:15 to 3:45 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
LIMITED REGISTRATON WORKSHOP FOR WRITERS
Creating A Sense of Place
New Orleans is a Great Laboratory for Teaching this Element…but Every City has its Own Special Beauty, Quirks, Problems. Regardless of the Setting, Understanding It Is an Important Key to Literary Success.

Led by literary agent Michael Murphy and New Orleans Review Editor Christopher Chambers, this will be an intensive, hands-on workshop limited to
15 writers. Writers will submit work relevant to subject in advance for critique during workshop. Not included in any registration packages AND Words & Music package registration is not required for this workshop.Those wishing to register should contact Faulkhouse@aol.com for guidelines and register directly with Faulkhouse@aol.com. $50 per writer. (Places for this workshop available are first come, first service.)

4:00 to 6:00 p. m.—The Cabildo at Jackson Square.
WORDS & MUSIC WRITERS ALLIANCE
Presentations of New Work on 2010 theme:
The Literature of War & Collateral Damage
Authors presenting will include the winner and first runner-up of the short story competition in the 2010 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, other finalists, aand members of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, the New Orleans chapter of the Words & Music Writers Alliance, and other writers.The Alliance was organized by poet and film director Amy Serrano, a member of the Society's Advisory Council several years ago. Among writers who will be presenting are Tad Bartlett, Susan Kagan, Mary Kuykendall, Maurice Ruffin, Brian Schneider, and Terri Stoor, For background on these authors, Click Here! Comments by literary agent Michael Murphy. Writers wishing to present should contact faulkhouse@aol.com. Registered guests of Words & Music are invited. Show registration pass at door. $10 charge for general public, $5 for students, showing current, valid campus. Refreshments.

6:30 to 8:00 p. m. — Faulkner House, 624 Pirate’s Alley
WELCOME COCKTAIL PARTY
Cocktails at Faulkner House, where William Faulkner wrote his first novel Soldier's Pay, will honor Words & Music, 2010 Chairman Jude Swenson, sponsors, other patrons and authors, National Book Award winners Tim O’Brien and Julia Glass; and New York Times Bestseller Sena Jeter Naslund, winner of the Harper Lee Award; Robin Black, who won the Society's 2005 Gold Medal for Best Short Story and Rob Magnuson Smith, who won the 2004 Gold Medal for Best Novel.
Robin's collection and Rob's novel have been published in 2010. Hosted by co-founders of the Faulkner Society: Rosemary James, Joe DeSalvo,and Kenneth Holditch. Complimentary for sponsors, patrons, Included in Writers Tuition and “All Events” registration packages, $25 per person for others.

8:00 p. m. — Until
ON THE TOWN
Time to Enjoy the Restaurants and Music Clubs of New Orleans before Words & Music moves into high gear.
French Quarter
Restaurants in French Quarter
Arnaud’s, Bacco, Bayona, Bistro at Maison de Ville, Brennans, Dicky Brennan’s Steak House, Mr. B’s, Broussard’s, Galatoire’s, Gumbo Shop, G.W. Fins, Irene’s, Muriel’s, Palm Court, Rib Room, Stella
Night Caps
Carousel Bar, Hotel Monteleone; Lobby Bar, Royal Orleans, Napoleon House,
Clubs
House of Blues, Tipitina’s on Decatur Street, Ritz-Carlton Bar Featuring Music by Jeremy Davenport
Faubourg Marigny (Historic District adjacent to the French Quarter Downriver)
Cabs Strongly Recommended
Restaurants
Feelings Café
Clubs
Snug Harbor, Café Brazil
Warehouse District
Restaurants
August, Café Adelaide at Lowe Hotel, Cochon, Herbsaint, Windsor Court Grille Room
Night Caps
Polo Lounge at the Windsor Court
Clubs
Le Chat Noir,

Thursday, November 18

8:30 a. m. — Muriel's Restaurant, St. Ann Street at Jackson Square
WELCOME SESSION WITH CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

10:00 a. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
MASTER CLASS: FICTION
Enduring Questions: The Crux of Successful Literary Fiction
Success in storytelling revolves around selecting and zeroing in on one or more enduring questions, questions which men and women have been asking themselves since time began. For instance: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here in uniform risking my life? The session, led by literary agent Michael Murphy will feature New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund, author of
Adam & Eve, Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance, and other works. Ms Naslund masterfully employs her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanity—the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. Her novels, all centering on enduring questions, offer profound insight and startling truths about the human experience. They will be joined by fiction writer Robin Black,

whose debut collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This..., has been described like this: Few first collections – few collections of any sort — are as intelligent and as moving about both the durability of love and the implacability of loss, or about the ways in which contingency can undo and remake us; about, finally, the damage done and the repair work to come. Her stories deal in often unexpected, surprising ways with the enduring questions. Ms. Naslund and Ms. Black will sign after the discussion. We request that you purchase your books in advance of the discussion. For more on Ms. Naslund, Click Here! For more on Robin Black, Click Here!

11:15 a. m.
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art Translating the Senses into words on a page.
Faculty TBA.

12:30 —Muriel's Restaurant, St. Ann Street at Jackson Square
Note: cash bar opens at Noon, Lunch promptly at 1:00 p. m.
SESSON TWO, LITERATURE & LUNCH
The Classics Revisted: How Troy Lost the War and Founded the Roman Empire
Internationally noted classicist Stanley Lombard will trace the devastating wars

between the Greeks and the Trojans through the literature of Homer and Virgil. This will be Dr. Lombard's second visit to Words & Music, as a member of the faculty. Noted for his translations of the poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as the Aeneid of Virgil, his versions of the poems are considered faithful to the original Greek and Latin of their authors. Dr. Lombard teaches Greek and Latin at all levels and general courses on Greek culture and literature. For more on Dr. Lombard, a tenured Professor of the Classics at the University of Kansas, Click Here!

Note: all Literature & Lunch sessions are included in the “All Events Registration” package. Otherwise, tickets are $60 per person. Advance reservations are required for each luncheon. Discounted price for all five luncheons. Tickets will not be sold at the door. For admittance, present ticket, registration pass, or sponsor pass.

2:30 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
MASTER CLASS: FICTION
War Stories Make Great Short Fiction
This session will feature Judy Kahn and Nolde Alexius, editors of the exceptional new collection, Best of LSU Fiction, and fiction writer James Gordon Bennett, who grew up as an Army brat and is a contributor to the collection. Ms. Kahn and Ms. Alexius are invited to present Rebecca Wells, the much loved Louisiana actress, playwright, and author, whose short story in this collection relates to war. Ms. Wells is a committed, vocal

activist in the crusade against wars. The author has tentatively accepted our invitation to participate in Words & Music, health permitting. Ms. Wells is recovering from advanced neurological Lyme's Disease, which severely impacts her stability and stamina. Her novels, including her first, The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, followed by Little Altars Everywhere, Ya-Yas in Bloom and, most recently, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, have all been New York Times bestseller. For more on Ms. Wells, Click Here!

4:30 to 6:00 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE.

Here to Watch:
Voyeurism, Journalism, and War in Michael Herr’s Dispatches
Presented by John David Hoseman, Graduate Student of Literature
During an era when visual media began to transform the societal consciousness of a generation, the war in Vietnam became America’s first shot of relatively live-action war images that would capture the attention of a nation and turn its citizens into voyeurs. Hoseman will explore Dispatches by war correspondent Michael Herr, a book near the top of the Vietnam narrative hierarchy, and Herr's story of what it means to
be a voyeur of war.

The Children Left Behind:
A Reflection on What Happens to a Child Abandoned by a Foreign Soldier
Presented by Zachary J. George, MFA Candiate
An MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, his thesis novel, Four Days to the Mile, follows the life of an Amerasian born in Vietnam in from 1967 through 2002. His paper addresses the same subject matter.

We Are All Victims:
The Devastating Effects of the New Warfare on the Physical and Psychological Health of Our Soldiers, Their Families, and Those Who Provide Medical Care for Them
Presented By Gregory Anderson, MD
Dr. Anderson has been practicing medicine for 40 years, including for the last eight years as a physician for the U. S. Army in the Department of Family Medicine at Joint Base Fort Lewis-McCord, WA. His job there has been to provide primary medical care for soldiers deploying to and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tell it one more time:
Repetition as “truth” in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Presented by Brian Schneider, Ph.D. Candidate
Scneider's novel This is Squalorville, based on Afghanistan experiences, is on the Short List for Finalists and his manuscript, Goodnight, Uncle Vincent, is the winner of the Faulkner -Wisdom Competition short story category this year. He is a former Army Sergeant, veteran of Afghanistan, and military contractor. He currently is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Constance in Germany.

Submitted by academics, scholars, psychologists, psychiatrists, artists and other experts who are registered guests of Words & Music on topics relating to The Literature of War & Collateral Damage, papers for presentation are selected and announced in advance. Free event for registered Words & Music faculty and guests or students with current, valid campus ID. Advance registration required, present Words & Music pass or school ID at door.

Submitted by academics, scholars, psychologists, psychiatrists, artists and other experts who are registered guests of Words & Music on topics relating to The Literature of War & Collateral Damage, papers for presentation are selected and announced in advance. Free event for registered Words & Music faculty and guests or students with current, valid campus ID. Advance registration required, present Words & Music pass or school ID at door.

6:30 p. m. — National World War II Museum, Warehouse District, Andrew Higgins Avenue, a short taxi ride from the French Quarter.
KEYNOTE SPEECH: FEATURING TIM O'BRIEN
From Achilles to Anzio to Aghanistan & Beyond: The Soldier's Fate Remains the Same
National Book Award Winner Tim O’Brien, author of the moving account of soldiers’ experiences in war, The Things They
Carried, will be introduced by Randy Fertel, principal of the Fertel Foundation, creator of the national Ridenhour Prizes for “Truth-Telling.” Tim

O’Brien is a winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.

Tim O'Brien is pictured above as a young soldier in Vietnam; Randy Fertel, an authority on the literature
of the Vietnam war, shown right.

The event is co-sponsored by the Faulkner Society, the Fertel Foundation, and the WWII Museum. Included in Words & Music packages. Show W&M pass at door. Tickets, $25 per person, general public, with advance reservations directly to Faulkhouse@aol.com. $20 per person WWII Museum members and Faulkner Society members when paid in advance, $12.50, students, when paid in advance. $35, anyone paying at door. Cash Bar.

8:00 To 10:00 p. m. — Stage Door Canteen, National World War II Museum
COCKTAILS AND DINNER WITH TIM O'BRIEN
Special separate ticketed event open to sponsors of Words & Music and of Tim O’Brien’s appearances in New Orleans. A limited number of General public tickets for this event are available at $150 per person, $250 per couple. The Stage Door Canteen is a charming private dining and meeting facility of the National WWII Museum operated by famous New Orleans restaurateur, Chef, John Besh, an Army veteran of the
Gulf War.

10:30 p. m. — Venue to be Announced
UP ALL NIGHT AT THE MOVIES:
YOUR HOST, MICHAEL MURPHY
Publishing & Film Phenomenon: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Based on Stieg Larsson’s first book in his Millenium Trilogy, this special showing is included in festival registration packages, ($5 to all others.) Free popcorn, Cash Bar.
(There will be festival showings of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire.) Sonny Mehta, senior editor and publisher, Knof, has tentatively agreed to appear later in the program and discuss "The Girl..." and this character and these stories have hit such a chord with readers of all ages, socio-economic status, and ethnic backgrounds.

To learn more about Stieg Larsson, see Time Magazine, Volume 175, No. 20/2010, Charles McGrath’s The Afterlife of Stieg Larrson, published in the New York Times, May 17, and David Kamp’s May 30 review in the New York Times of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest; along with Susan Larson’s Times-Picayune review: http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/10/swedish_yarn_tops_a_trio_of_my.html

If you have not yet read any of the trilogy, we recommend you start at the beginning. Because of the subtitles, we recommend you read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo before seeing the film during the festival. Go to www.nola.com for reviews of the film.

Friday, November 19

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

CAFE AU LAIT & CROISSANTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS

8:00 a. m. —Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
LIMITED REGISTRATION WORKSHOP
Strange Love and Stranger Lovers:
Love, Even In Its Most Unusual Manifestations, Makes the Literary World Go Round
This Limited Registration workshop will be led by Linda Watanabe McFerrin, author of the new novel, Dead Love, which has been described as Twilight with teeth, and founder of Left Coast Writers®. She has led workshops in Greece, France, Italy, Ireland, Central America, and the United States. She has mentored a long list of accomplished writers toward publication. Ms. McFerrin's guest authors will include Rob Magnuson Smith, whose debut novel, The Gravedigger, a story of unusual love, was the 2004 winner of the Faulkner Society's gold medal for Best Novel. It is being published by University Press of New Orleans with a launch party concurrent with Words & Music. Janice Eidus, author of the new novel, The Last Jewish Virgin, will join Linda and Rob. Ms.Eidus, who has been a finalist in the Faulkner - Wisdom Competition, has received excellent advance notices on her new book described as "an innovative, humorous, and

universal tale of longing and redemption, which refreshes and reinvents the classic vampire myth for a contemporary world in which love, faith, and politics are forever intersecting and evolving." Invited but not confirmed is bestselling author Karen Essex, whose new novel is Dracula in Love, which is described by critics as Twilight for serious, adult readers. Ms. McFerrin asks that writers registering for this workshop submit in advance samples of romantic love, erotic love, or plain old sex scenes they have written and want critiqued during the workshop. Samples should be no longer than two double-spaced pages and should be submitted to Faulkhouse@aol.com not later than two weeks prior to the event. Note: Continental Breakfast will be available in the Orleans Room for members of the panel. Authors will sign in the Book Mart, Queen Anne Parlor,after the event.

8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

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9:45 a. m. – Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
The Dehumanizing Effects of the Civil War on Southern Society
Featured panelists will be Howard Bahr, a veteran of the Vietnam War and author of three critically acclaimed novels of the Civil War—The Black Flower, The Year of Jubilo, and
The Judas Field—and Stephen Yates, author of the newly

released novel of the Civil War, Morkan's Quarry. In the work of both authors, the actual battles are the background for the examination of how war disrupts the fabric of society, often destroying it completely, and destroys the lives of those who are the very fabric of society: the hard working man and his family. Joining them will be Roy Blou

nt, Jr., author of the Penguin series book Robert E. Lee, an excellent short biography by an accomplished writer, author of 19 non-fiction books, who does a good job of outlining Lee's life and career. He's also a Southerner, and understands the mystic attachment people of the south have for their culture and society and he successfully recreates what things must have been like for Lee in the mid-19th century. For more on these authors and theirwork, Click Here for Howard, Click Here for Steve, and for Roy, Click Here!

11:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
The Popular Songs of the Civil War
Presented By Florence Jumonville, Ph.D.

11:45 — Hotel Monteleon, Royal Rooms, Ground Floor off Carousel Bar
SESSION THREE, LITERATURE & LUNCH
Cash bar in Carousel Bar at 11:45 a. m.
Lunch promptly at 12:15 p. m.
War & Food: How Wars Changed How and What We Eat
This session will feature National Book Award winner Julia Glass, Sara Roahen, and Elise Blackwell. Ms. Glass is a notorious "foodie," who frequently involves her love of food in her choice of settings, creation of characters and dialogue for her novels. A perfect coconut cake, for instance, inspired her novel The Whole World Over. Joining Ms. Glass

will be Sara Roahen, who is a writer and oral historian. Her work usually involves food, cooking, memory, and/or place. She is author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table. Elise Blackwell is author of the engrossing short novel, Hunger. Leningrad during the

German siege forms the background for an exploration of love and betrayal, as well as for some richly sensual evocations of the pleasures of eating. Her new novel is An Unfinished Score. For more information about these writers and their work, Click Here!

Note: all Literature & Lunch sessions are included in the “All Events Registration” package. Otherwise, tickets are $60 per person. Advance reservations are required for each luncheon. Tickets will not be sold at the door. For admittance ,present ticket, registration pass, or sponsor pass.

2:00 p. m. — Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, Corner of Chartres & St. Peter
DRAMA
American Place Theatre:
The Things They Carried,
Starring Billy Lyons, there will be discussions before and after the performance facilitated by teaching artist Heidi Jackson. Advance reservations are required required. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Included in Writers' Tuition and All Events Packages. For admittance, present ticket, registration pass, or sponsor pass. Students with valid student ID will be given complimentary tickets on a first come, first serve basis. Reserve in advance through Faulkhouse@aol.com.

4:30 to 5:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
MASTER CLASS
Getting The Right Agent & Working With An Editor.
Agent and Editor consultations begin following this session.

4:30 to 6:00 p. m. —National WWII Museum, Third Floor Meeting Room
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
A Great Work of Architectural Art Which Inspired New Orleans Architects...
...and A Great New Work of Literary Art
Jack Davis, a member of the Faulkner Society's Board, the Board of the National Trust

for Preservation, and the Mies van der Rohe Society, will be the toastmaster for this session and the evening gala following. This session will begin with comments by Simon Mawer, author of The Glass Room, about how he was inpired by Villa Tugenhadt, the famouse creation of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to write the novel. Architects Ivan Mandich, Marcel Wisnia, and Geoffrey Baker, the author of numerous important books on modern architecture, will explore through words and visuals of Villa Tugenhadt and how Mies Van der Rohe and his work of art were important influences on the careers of important American modernist architects, including modernist architects of New Orleans.Villa Tugehadt is the most important character in Mawer's compelling new novel about the collateral damage to the lives of non-combattants resulting from Hitler's rise to power. The story traces the lives of those who occupy the fictional take on the villa, beginning with the family which commissions it . Published recently in the United States, The Glass Room is short-listed for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and other important British prizes.Tugenhadt and its creator also were important influences on the careers of important American modernist architects, including important modernist architects of New Orleans.

6:30 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. — WWII Museum, Warehouse District, Andrew Higgins Avenue
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
An Evening With British Novelist Simon Mawer, Author of The Glass Room

Cocktails and Dinner with bestselling British author Simon Mawer, whose novel The Glass Room, is a stunning work of war literature, telling the story of how the rise to power of Hitler crushed the dreams and lives of ordinary people as well as the extraordinary feeling of optimism and burst of creative energy that came in the wake of WWI. The event will honor the 2010 winner of the Faulkner Society's ALIHOT Award for Community Service. Co-sponsored by tne Faulkner Society, the National World War II Museum, and the English Speaking Union. Cocktail Attire. Click Here! for more on Mawer and how the Villa Tugenhadt figures in his stunning work of fiction, The Glass Room, a story of the horrible collateral damage of Hitler's rise to power wreaked on all in the path of the Nazi juggernaut.

9:30 to 11:30 p. m. — Napoleon House, 500 Chartres St., Corner of St. Louis
ENTERTAINMENT
Jazz After Hours at the Napoleon House
Featuring food, open bar, live music. Band to be announced.

Saturday, November 20

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room (Across Hall from Queen Anne Ballroom)
CAFÉ AU LAIT & CROISSANTS
LIMITED REGISTRATION WORKSHOP FOR WRITERS
SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING
To Become An Outrageously Successful Author:
Build Your Audience of Readers Before You’re Published!
• Why thousands of people try and fail to get published, and how to insure that YOUR

words get read.
•    FIVE key ingredients for a successful writer website
•    HOW and WHY you should be BLOGGING
•    HOW to build a successful social networking platform that reaches YOUR readers to create a ready-made audience for your book(s)!
Andra Miller of Algonquin Press is invited to introduce this session, offered by author, marketing consultant, and coach Shari Stauch of Shark Marketing, with author Heidi Durrow, whose debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky has benefited tremendously from social media marketing. Algonquin is the publisher of her book. BONUS: Attendees to this session will each be offered a half-hour free consultation with Shark Marketing's Shari Stauch. Joining them will be Linda Wantanabe McFerrin, founder of Left Coast Writers® who has led workshops in Greece, France, Italy, Ireland, Central America, and the United States. She has mentored a long list of accomplished writers toward publication. Authors will sign following this session. No advance submissions required. Session participants, however, are asked to come prepared to ask cogent questions about promoting their current book projects. Authors will sign following session in Queen Anne Parlor.

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballrom
CAFÉ AU LAIT & CROISSANTS
8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art of the Personal Essay
Led by well-published poet and essayist Beth Ann Fennelly, this session will also

feature well known essayist and poet Rosemary Daniell. It will focus on what elements elevate diary scribblings to art. In earlier eras, it was not unusual for educated men and women to keep carefully written personal journals containing their observations about the lives they were leading, the Society in which they found themselves, the natural environment they

encountered. Some of these journals were eventually published and have become classics. In this day of twitter, twitter, tweet, have we lost a valuable source of social and cultural history to such bather as, "Hi! I'm watching Law & Order. Whatcha doin'?" This session will explore both the value and the joys of personal essays. Invited to join Ms. Fennelly and Ms. Daniell is the winner of the 2010 Gold Medal for Best Essay in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Ms. Fennelly and Ms. Daniell will sign in the Book Mart following their presentations. For more on Ms. Fennelly, Click Here! For more on Ms.Daniell, Click Here!.

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room (Across hall from Ballroom)
Note: Continental Breakfast will be available in the Orleans Room at this session.

9:45 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room (Across the Hall from Ballroom)
EDITOR & AGENT CONSULTATIONS BEGIN

9:45 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballrom
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
OTHER KINDS OF BATTLES

Educational Injustice: The Only Black Kid in the Class
An Autobiographical Testament of One Black Woman’s War Against Ignorance, Intolerance, and Racism in the American Classroom and the American School Systems.
Presented by Lori Roper, High School English Teacher
Lori Roper is a 36-year-old African American English teacher who is a member of the faculty of Chatham High School, in Chatham, NJ. Chatham High School is a Blue Ribbon ,USA Today Silver Medal ranked high school in a predominantly white town of lovely homes, rows of wnkte picket fences, bounding Golden Retrievers, decorum and wealth. Her essay by the same name placed on the short-list for finalists in the 2010 William Faulkner - William Creative Writing Competition. For more on Ms. Roper and her
paper, Click Here!

10:15 a. m.
OTHER KINDS OF BATTLES: THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
Social Injustice, Ethnic Cleansing, and Class Prejudice as Inspiration for Art
Tom Franklin, author of the new novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, is among

feature authors for this sesion. His new novel is a tale of friendship marred by crime and racial strain in a small Mississippi town. It is an engaging crime story and an equally engaging discourse on lthe difficulties of overcoming inbred racism. Franklin is the author of two other novels, Smonk and Hell at the Breech, and a masterful collection of short fiction, Poachers, which won the Edgar. Other The new novel is an engaging crime novel and an equally engaging discourse on learning to

overcome inbred racism. Other featured authors include Heidi Durrow, whose début novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, Rachel must confront her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to

see her as either black or white. Joining Tom and Heidi will be Reza Aslan and Patty Freidmann. Aslan is editor of the new anthology, Tablet and Pen, a groundbreaking work which spans a century of literature by the best writers of the Middle East —from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk—all of them bound together not by borders and nationalities but by a common experience of domination and imperialism. Aslan is author of two international bestsellers, No God But God and How to Win A Cosmic War. Ms. Friedmann, a much loved New Orleans author renowned for her exceptional ear for dialect and ability to translate it accurately onto the pages of a book, is author of the new novel, Too Jewish, composed of three linked novellas which tell the story of a Jew who escapes the Nazis and death in the Holocaust, winds up in the Jewish Community of Uptown New Orleans where he must confront class prejudice. For more on these authors, Click Here for Heidi, Click Here for Tom, and Click Here for Reza and Click Here for Patty.

11:30— Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
My Favorite War Story and Why

This session will by led by Stewart O'Nan, author of 13 critically acclaimed novels, including his book, The Names of the Dead, proclaimed as one of the very best Vietnam novels, a remarkable feat, since he was still a child when the war ended. Joining him will be Josh Russell, shown left, whose new novel, My Bright Midnight, is set during WWII in New Orleans and is about the ways in which the war changed the life of an ordinary man; George Bishop, whose debut novel, A Letter to My Daughter, is about the collateral damage of war in one family; and Elise Blackwell, author of the engrossing short novel, Hunger. Leningrad during the German siege forms the background for an exploration of love and betrayal, as well as for some richly sensual

evocations of the pleasures of eating. Her latest novel is An Unfinished Score. Elise, who received her MFA at the University of California-Irvine, was graduated from LSU and Josh cme through the MFA program at LSU and taught there. Josh currently is teaching af Georgia State University in Atlanta, and Elise is director of the MFA program at the Univeristy of South Carolina. Authors will sign in the Book Mart, Queen Anne Parlor, after their appearance. Bishop, who has an MFA from UNC Wilmington, has been an actor and has taught in the Middle East and the Far East. Authors will sign after the session in the Book Mart, Queen Anne Parlor. For more on these authors, Click Here!

12:45 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Searching for Mercy Street:
Tim O’Brien’s Norman Bowker and the Literature of PTSD
Presented by Kristen Kelly, Ph.D.

At the heart of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried lies a section entitled Speaking of Courage, the story of Norman Bowker, member of Alpha Company and a great friend of Kiowa, a fellow soldier who perishes one dark night. The fate of Kiowa ultimately determines the fate of Norman Bowker, a character who exemplies the isolation of Vietnam veterans from mainstream America. Dr.Kelly teaches at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, GA. Her primary research interest is the literature of the Vietnam War and Middle East conflicts. For more on Dr. Kelly and her paper, Click Here!

1:15 p. m.— Hotel Monteleone, Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
Cash Bar will Open at in the Bienville Room; Lunch at 1:45 in Ballroom
SESSION FOUR, LITERATURE & LUNCH
Using Fiction to Get at the Truth
Randy Fertel, principal in The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, which created the national Truth Teller Awards in cooperation with The Nation and given annually at the National Press Club in Washington, is invited to introduce the session. Featured authors will include Tim O'Brien, National Book Award winner and a winner of the Truth Teller Award; Julia Glass, National Book Award winner for Three Junes, whose latest novel is The Widower's Tale and who is author of I See You Everywhere and The Whole World Over. Two other important writers will join Tim and Julia. They are: noted British writer Simon Mawer, whose novel The Glass Room is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and who has authored seven other critically acclaimed novels, and Stewart O'Nan, pictured at left, author of 13 critically acclaimed novels, including The Names of the Dead, and an the anthology, The Vietnam Reader, considered the most important resource of literary art for understanding the impact of the Vietnam War on its veterans and American society. For more on these authors, Click Here!

3:30 p. m. — Venue to be announced
Limited Registration Workshop
TBA

3:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Royal Rooms, Ground Floor
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
War & The Arts:
Lord Byron, Brian Hunter, and Islamic and Christian States at War
Presented by Kathryn Pratt Russell, Ph.D.
Dr. Russell will examine the very different kinds of poetry
resulting from Lord Byron's war and that of contemporary war poet Brian Hunter. For more on Dr. Russell andher paper, Click Here!

Submitted by academics, scholars, psychologists, doctors, artists and other experts who are registered guests of Words & Music on topics relating to The Literature of War & Collateral Damage, papers for presentation are being selected from proposals and scheduled as they are selected. Free event for registered Words & Music faculty and guests or students with current, valid campus ID. Advance student registration required, present Words & Music pass or school ID at door. Session is included in all registration packages. Students may attend free with advance registration with valid IDs.

4:00 p. m.. — Hotel Monteleone, Royal Rooms, Ground Floor
THE CLASSICS REVISITED
Poetry WAS the Literature of War in the Ancient World

Featuring noted classicist, translator, and performance artist Dr. Stanley Lombardo, who will revisit the great battles of the ancient world and the poetry that recorded these battles. He will explore the terrible, destructive love of war in these cultures, which is at the base of much of their literature. Nicole Cooley, winner of the Walt Whitman Award for her impressive body of

published work, including her latest collection, Breach, will join Dr. Lombardo in this discussion. Ms. Cooley will explore the classical allusions to war in contemporary poetry. Also invited to join them will be the winner of the 2010 gold medal for Best Poem in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. The winner, selected by Nicole Cooley, will be announced on William Faulkner's birthday, September 25. They will read illustrative passages of poetry.

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
CAFÉ AU LAIT & CROISSANTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
MASTER CLASS: LATE BLOOMERS
Mature Fiction for Serious Readers:
Will It Become A Thing of the Past In America's Youth Crazed Culture?

Invited to introduce and lead this discussion is Pamela Binnings Ewen, a member of the Faulkner Society's board, who has published three novels since retiring from the practice of law with one of the largest law firms in Houston, including The Secret of the Shroud, released in September, 2010. Other featured panelists will be Robin Black, winner of the Faulkner Society's 2005 gold medal for Best Short Story, with her agent Henry Dunnow, who has proven with his work on her behalf that mature fiction is alive and well. Her short fiction collection, If I Loved You I Would Tell You This... was published earlier this year by Random House. The book, also being published abroad in several foreign languages, is enjoying enormous success.The collection was selected for Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine Summer Reading List, was touted as great reading by Huffington Post, and is a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Award. Robin will be going to Ireland for the prize ceremonies in September. Ms. Ewen and Ms. Black will sign in the Book Mart following the session. For more on Ms. Ewen and Ms. Black, Click Here! For more on Henry Dunnow, Click Here!

8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
AGENT & EDITOR CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE:

10:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
21ST CENTURY PUBLISHING
Speakers TBA

11:15 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art of Translation: What It Is and Why It Matters?

Invited to introduce this session is Random House editor Will Murphy. Click Here for Will's impressive credentials. The session will feature John Biguenet, Stanley Lombardo, and Reza Aslan. Biguenet, winner of the Faulkner Society's 2009 ALIHOT award for Literature, has served twice as president of the American Literary Translators Association. He is author of the novel,
Oyster, and the short fiction collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, Playboy, Story, and Zoetrope; has won numerous awards; and is widely anthologized. Dr. Lombardo, a nationally acclaimed translator of ancient Greek and Roman literature, teaches Greek and Latin at every level as well as Hellenic and Roman culturea at the University of Kansas. Aslan is editor of the new anthology, Tablet and Pen, produced in concert with Words Without Borders and published for November, 2010 release by Norton. Until now, the mesmerizing prose of the Middle East—Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu—has been virtually excluded from the canon available to English speaking readers. They will discuss the importance of translating in today's globilization and the growing aggression of religious fanatics of all faiths. They will sign in the Book Mart, Queen Anne Parlor immediately after the session. For more on these authors, Click Here for John, Click Here for Stanley, and Click Here for Reza.

1:00 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
The Literature of War & Collateral Damage
From Soldiers’ Pay to A Fable: Faulkner’s Art of War
Presented By Christopher Love
Christopher Love currently is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi concentrating in modern American and British literature.For more on Christopher Love and his paper on Faulkner, Click Here!

1:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Carousel Bar
Cash Bar precedes Literature and Lunch.
2:00 p. m.— Hotel Monteleone, Royal Rooms, immediately adjacent to the
Carousel Bar
LITERATURE & LUNCH
How to Read Faulkner & Love It: Soldiers' Pay and Two Soldiers

Featuring Faulkner Scholars Howard Bahr and
W. Kenneth Holditch and Hollywood production

designer C. Robert Holloway. Bahr was for many years the curator of Faulkner's Oxford, MS
residence Rowan Oak and has written and lectured on Faulkner. He is author of three critically acclaimed Civil War Novels. Bahr teaches in Jackson, MS at Belhaven College. Dr. Holdich, Professor Emeritus, University of New Orleans, is a scholar in southern literature with special

expertise in Tennessee Williams and Faulkner. He founded the Tennessee Williams Journal and is a co-founder of both the Tennessee Williams Festival and the Faulkner Society. Holloway is the author of the new and wickedly funny collection of stories, Wretched Excess, and the novel,
The Unauthorized Letters of Oscar Wilde, which was a finalist in the Faulkner Society's competiton and which won the coveted Hemingway Prize for fiction. These authors will discuss Faulkner's fist novel, Soldier's Pay and an early short story, Two Soldiers, made into the short film by the same name. This session will end with a screening of the Aaron Schneider film, Two Soldiers, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Film in 2004. Much of the film's success was attributed to the production design work by Holloway. For more on these authors, Click Here!

PRICING & RESERVATIONS
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Following are some of the events planned for Words & Music. We will be filling in blanks daily, as we nail down schedules of arrivals and departures of faculty for Words & Music, so check back frequently. Those events on the schedule now are confirmed as to date and time. Wednesday, November 17

Following are some of the events planned for Words & Music. We will be filling in blanks daily, as we nail down schedules of arrivals and departures of faculty for Words & Music, so check back frequently. Those events on the schedule now are confirmed as to date and time.

Wednesday, November 17