Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society: The Big Read

The following is an at-a-glance schedule for Words & Music, 2010. For further info on AUTHORS/SCHOLARS appearing, CLICK HERE.

For further info on AGENTS/EDITORS appearing, CLICK HERE.

Wednesday, November 17

10:00 a.m. to 11:30. — Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre.
MASTER CLASS FOR STUDENTS & TEACHERS
Presenters: Tim O’Brien, George Bishop

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
Presenters: Sena Jeter Naslund, Susan Larson, Michael Murphy

2:15 to 3:45 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
LIMITED REGISTRATION 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, It Is an Important Key to Literary Success.
Presenters: Michael Murphy, Christopher Chambers
Note: This workshop is sold out.

2:15 to 3:45 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
MASTER CLASS: CREATING CHARACTERS FOR FICTION & FILM
(Note: this is a concurrent session with session above and is included in package registration.)
Presenter: Loraine Despres

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
Presenters: Hal Clark, Tad Bartlett, Susan Kagan, Mary Kuykendall, Maurice Ruffin, Brian Schneider, Terri Stoor

6:30 to 8:00 p. m. — Faulkner House, 624 Pirate’s Alley
WELCOME COCKTAIL PARTY
Cocktails at Faulkner House.
Honoring: Words & Music, 2010 Chairman Jude Swenson, 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; and 2010 competition winners.

Thursday, November 18

8:00 a. m. — Muriel's Restaurant, St. Ann Street at Jackson Square
WELCOME SESSION WITH CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Louisiana and War

9:30 a. m.— Muriel's Restaurant
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Presenters: Nancy Dixon, Ph.D.

10:00 a. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
MASTER CLASS: FICTION
Enduring Questions: The Crux of Successful Literary Fiction
Presenters: Michael Murphy, Sena Jeter Naslund Robin Black, Pamela Binnings Ewen

11:15 a. m. — The Cabildo, Jackson Square
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art of Creating Books for Children and Young Adults
Presenters: Alex Beard, Ken Wells, George Rodrigue, Patty Friedmann.

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 Revisited: How Troy Lost the War and Founded the Roman Empire
Presenters: Stanley Lombardo, Carleton Eastlake

2:30 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
MASTER CLASS: FICTION
War Stories Make Great Short Fiction
Presenters: Judy Kahn, Nolde Alexius, James Gordon Bennett

3:45 to 6:00 p. m. — The Cabildo at Jackson Square
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
The Lost Soldier:
Effects of the Vietnam War on Noncombat Soldiers
Presented by Alan Pasternak, Ph.D.
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
Tell it one more time:
Repetition as “truth” in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Presented by Brian Schneider, Ph.D. Candidate

Here to Watch:
Voyeurism, Journalism, and War in Michael Herr’s Dispatches
Presented by John David Hoseman, Graduate Student of Literature
When to make peace and when to kill: a Jungian reading of Bonhoeffer
Presented by Jason Ferris of New Orleans, MA, Divinity; MA, Social Work
The Children Left Behind:
A Reflection on What Happens to a Child Abandoned by a Foreign Soldier
Presented by Zachary J. George, MFA Candiate

6:30 p. m. — National World War II Museum, Warehouse District, Andrew Higgins Avenue, (a short taxi ride from the French Quarter).
KEYNOTE SPEECH: TIM O'BRIEN
From Achilles to Anzio to Aghanistan & Beyond: The Soldier's Fate Remains the Same
Presenters: Tim O’Brien, Randy Fertel,
Performance by: Alexandra Scott

8:00 To 10:00 p. m. — Stage Door Canteen,
National World War II Museum
COCKTAILS AND DINNER WITH TIM O'BRIEN

Friday, November 19

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
CAFE AU LAIT & CROISSANTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS

8:30 a. m. —Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
WORKSHOP FOR WRITERS: (Included in All Packages)
Strange Love and Stranger Lovers: Love, Even In Its Most Unusual Manifestations, Makes the Literary World Go Round
Presenters: Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Rob Magnuson Smith, Janice Eidus

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING:
8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Bonnet Carre Room
AGENT & EDITOR CONSULTATIONS BEGIN

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING:
8:15 a.m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS: The Literature of War & Collateral Damage.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried: From Purpose, to Passion, to Perception
Presented by Arlene Drachslin of Riverside, CA

8:35 a.m.
Searching for Mercy Street:
Tim O’Brien’s Norman Bowker and the Literature of PTSD
Presented by Kristen Kelly, Ph.D., of Gainesville, GA

8:55 a.m.
The Wounded Hero: Explorations in Mythology and the Performing Arts Presented by Sarah D. Holloway, Ph.D., of Portland, OR

9:15 a.m.
Red Eye Shadow, Green Mascara: Exploring the Physical and Mental Identity Crises of American Servicewomen
Presented by Capt. Sonja Pasquantonio, U.S. Airforce Academy

BREAK

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
Presenters: Howard Bahr, Stephen Yates, Alecia P. Long, Ph.D., Roy Blount, Jr.

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 NOON.
War & Food: How Wars Changed the Way We Eat
Presenters: Howard Yoon, Lee Froehlich, Julia Glass, Elise Blackwell

2:00 p. m. — Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, Corner of Chartres & St. Peter
DRAMA Presented by American Place Theatre:
The Things They Carried
Starring Billy Lyons, there will be discussions before and after the performance facilitated by teaching artist Desiree Burch.

4:30 to 5:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
MASTER CLASS
Getting The Right Agent & Working With An Editor.
Agent and Editor consultations begin following this session featuring all this year's Agent and Editor faculty.

5:00 to 7:00 p. m. —National WWII Museum, Third Floor Meeting Room
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Importance of Symbiotic Relationships in the Arts:
How A Great Work of Architectural Art Which Inspired New Orleans Architects ...and A Great New Work of Literary Art
Presenters: Jack Davis, Simon Mawer, Geoffrey Baker, Marcel Wisznia, Ivan Mandich, Arthur Q. Davis, FAIA

7:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. — WWII Museum, Warehouse District, Andrew Higgins Avenue
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Cocktails and Dinner with bestselling British author Simon Mawer.

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.
Performance by: Irvin Mayfield with his trio.

Saturday, November 20

8:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
CAFÉ AU LAIT & CROISSANTS
8:30 a. m.— Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
The Aesthetics of Literature
The Art of Telling Your Favorite War Story: Give It an Unusual Twist
Presenters: Stewart O'Nan, Josh Russell, George Bishop, Elise Blackwell

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING
WRITERS WORKSHOP: SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING
How To Become An Outrageously Successful Author:
Build Your Audience of Readers Before You’re Published!
Presenters: Andra Miller, Shari Stauch, Heidi Durrow, Linda Wantanabe McFerrin

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
The Literature of War & Collateral Damage
8:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
The Greening of Consciousness: War and Quest
Presented by Nitya Prema, Ph.D., of Avery, CA

8:45 a.m.
Nightmares, PTSD & Creativity
Presented by James Pagel MS/MD of Pueblo, CO

9:15 a.m.
Psyche & War: Carl Jung’s The Red Book and Gabriel Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Presented by Jacqueline West, Ph.D. of Santa Fe, NM

BREAK

9:45 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballrom
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
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, Writer & Former High School English Teacher

10:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Bonnet Carre Room
EDITOR & AGENT CONSULTATIONS BEGIN

10:15 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
OTHER KINDS OF BATTLES: THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
Social Injustice, Ethnic Cleansing, and Class Prejudice as Inspiration for Art
Presenters: Tom Franklin, Heidi Durrow, Reza Aslan, Patty Friedman

11:45 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
PERFORMANCE
E-Z BOY WAR: A WAR STORY OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Performed By Rebecca Wells

1:15 p. m.— Hotel Monteleone, Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
Cash Bar will Open at in the Bienville Room; Lunch at 1:30 in Ballroom
SESSION FOUR, LITERATURE & LUNCH
Using Fiction to Get at the Truth
Presenters: Randy Fertel, Julia Glass, Rebecca Wells, Simon Mawer, Stewart O'Nan

3:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
MASTER CLASS: FICTION
Presenters: Elise Capron, Stewart O’Nan, Robin Black, Tom Piazza, Rob Magnuson Smith

3:30 p.m. — Bonnet Carre Room, Hotel Monteleone
Master Class: Writing A Query Letter
Presented by: Anne Mini

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Poetry & War: Lord Byron, Brian Turner, and Islamic and Christian States at War
Presented by Kathryn Pratt Russell, Ph.D.

3:45 p.m.
The Golden Fowl & The Missing String: A Reading
Presented by Liv Evensen, Ph.D. of Oslo, Norway

4:00 p.m.
BREAK

4:15 p. m.. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
THE CLASSICS REVISITED
Poetry WAS the Literature of War in the Ancient World
Presenters: Dr. Stanley Lombardo, Nicole Cooley, Julia Carey.

5:30 p.m. — Hotel Monteleone, Orleans Room
THE LITERATURE OF WAR & COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Presenters: Gordon Walmsley, Beth Ann Fennelly, Rosemary Daniell

7:00 - 8:30 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
FAULKNER FOR ALL: COCKTAILS AND ENTERTAINMENT
War & Humor, The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup
The Annual Meeting of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society.
Performaces by: Quinn Peeper, Alexandra Scott, plus Screening of the classic Marx Brothers short Duck Soup, with original commentary by humorist and author Roy Blount, Jr. Joining Roy as toastmasters for this 20th anniversary gala will be fiction writer Tom Franklin.
Attire, Black Tie.

9:00 to 11:00 p. m.
FAULKNER FOR ALL: AWARDS, DINNER & DANCING
War & Music, The Music of the Dance Floor
Roy Blount, Jr. will present 2010 judge and winners of of the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the ALIHOT gold medal for Literature. Dancing to War Music.
Attire: Black Tie.

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: MENAGE À TROIS
The Affair of Agent, Author, and Editor Needs to be Oh, So Close!
Presenters: Barney Karpfinger, Sarah Crichton, Bill Loefelm, Deborah Grosvenor, Pat Walsh, Caroline Kellums

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

9:45 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art of the Personal Essay
Presenters: Helene Atwan, Beth Ann Fennelly, Rosemary Daniell, Beverly Blasingame, Dr. Quinn Peeper

11:00 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE
The Art of Translation: What It Is and Why It Matters?
Presenters: Will Murphy, John Biguenet, Stanley Lombardo, Reza Aslan.

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
The Literature of War & Collateral Damage
12:15 p. m.— Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
Anger
Presented by Frank Cox of Atlanta, GA

12:45 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
FAUKNER & WAR: PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
From Soldiers’ Pay to A Fable: Faulkner’s Art of War
Presented By Christopher Love

BREAK

1:15 p. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Carousel Bar Cash Bar
1:15 p. m.— Royal Salons, Ground Floor, Adjacent to Carousel Bar
LITERATURE & LUNCH
How to Read Faulkner & Love It: Soldiers' Pay and Two Soldiers
Presenters: Howard Bahr, W. Kenneth Holditch, C. Robert Holloway. 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.

4:00 p. m — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
THE LAST WORD: JUST DESSERTS
THE ANNUAL TALL TALES COMPETITION
Led by humorist and fiction writer Ken Wells, who won the competition so many times he has been forced to retire, and give Roy Blount, who has been leading, at least a chance to win. The theme this year is Love in the Time of War.

SO LONG, OOH LONG, WE’VE BEEN GLAD TO HAVE YOU!
Words & Music will adjourn immediately after Tall Tales, 2010.

Faulkner Society events are made possible in part by important support from American Institute of Architects, New Orleans; The Arts Council of New Orleans and the Decentralized Arts Funding Program of The Louisiana Division of the Arts; Alex Beard, Dorian Bennett; Bertie Deming Smith and the Deming Foundation; the English Speaking Union; Rosemary James, Joseph DeSalvo and Faulkner House, Inc; Randy Fertel and The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation; Arthur & Mary Davis, Quint Davis, and Pam Friedler; Alexa Georges; the Louisiana State Museum; MacAdam-Cage Publishing; Courtenay McDowell and Richard Gregory; Elizabeth McKinley; Hotel Monteleone; Mr. & Mrs. Hartwig Moss, III; National World War II Museum; Jimmy & Pam Lott, Ralph and Pam Lupin and The Lupin Foundation; Diane Manning, Theodosia M. Nolan, Tia and James Roddy, and Peter Tattersall; Parkside Foundation; Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre; Anne and Ron Pincus; Other Press, a Division of Random House; E. Quinn Peeper and Michael Harold; R. M. Shows, David Speights in Memory of Marti Speights, Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture: Nancy Cater, Editor; the State Library of Louisiana; Judith "Jude" Swenson in memory of her late husband, James Swenson; and the Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation, Yvonne Lafleur Walsh and James C. Walsh.