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2014 Planning Team, on Behalf of the Calvin College English Department THANK YOU FOR JOINING US we’ll see you in 2016! #FFWGR /ffwgr @FFWgr festival.calvin.edu CONTENTS CAMPUS MAP . .. 2 locations for session venues, parking, shuttle stops, coffee break areas, dining facilities, and more WELCOME . 3 GRATITUDE . 4-5 working together to make the Festival possible FESTIVAL BASICS . 6-7 registration hours, information center, internet access, ticketed events, and more GETTING AROUND . 8-9 shuttles, parking, commuting FOOD: ON CAMPUS . 10-11 FOOD: OFF CAMPUS . 12 SPEAKERS . 13-22 alphabetical by author BOOK SIGNINGS . 23 . underwritten by: EXHIBITION HALL . 24-25 exhibitor listing and presentations FESTIVAL CIRCLES . 26 for further discussion SCHEDULE . .27-42 thursday, april 10 . 27-30 friday, april 11 . 31-37 saturday, april 12 . 38-42 SPONSOR MESSAGES . .43-51 contents ‹¤› 1 LAKE DRIVE CAMPUS MAIL & PRINT SERVICES BLDG Detailed Grand Rapids maps are MAP PHYSICAL N PLANT RAVENSWOOD available at the registration desk . GUEST HOUSE W E 96 NORTH FIELD S EASTBELTLINE (M37) East Beltline Fuller Avenue P8 196 P parking for Festival Calvin attendees WEST ZUIDEMA US College FIELD SOCCER VAN REKEN FIELD 131 P parking lots P7 Burton KALSBEEK B book signings 28th Street 96 HUIZENGA C coffee break area HUIZENGA P12 YOUNGSMA TENNIS CENTER AND TRACK D dining option CENTER SPOELHOF FIELDHOUSE ADDITIONAL PARKING: COMPLEX S shuttle stop BOER- Church of the Servant, 3835 Burton SE BENNINK Shuttle service provided on Thursday and Friday (see pages 8-9 for details) P13 ECOSYSTEM M boxed meal pick-up Van Noord PRESERVE HOOGENBOOM Arena NOORDEWIER HEALTH AND VANDERWERP Knollcrest buildings in use RECREATION CENTER Knollcrest Dining Hall D by festival P6 Dining Hall other campus VENEMA Accessibility Map AQUATIC ROOKS buildings CENTER VANDELLEN BEETS-VEENSTRA A map showing the location TIMMER BUNKER INTERPRETIVE of elevators and accessible HEYNS SCHULTZE CENTER ELDERSVELD entrances for all campus P5 ENGINEERING BUILDING NORTH buildings is available at HALL BOLT Festival Information Center the registration desk . Auditorium Center Art Gallery Recital Hall Commons Campus Store B SCIENCE P9 Swets Choral Hall BUILDING Commons Dining Hall D P4 DEVRIES HALL Lower West Lobby M OF SCIENCE Johnny’s Café D Commons Covenant Upper East Lobby Fish House Annex Fine Arts Center S Uppercrust (upstairs) D M Alumni Association Board Room (upstairs) Prince Conference Exhibition Hall Library Center Hekman DeVos Festival Marketplace Commons Lecture Hall P3 Lobby C Library P10 Communication Commons Lecture Hall Lobby (downstairs) C Center S Willow Room ATM Spoelhof Board Room Center P14 P15 P16 Hiemenga Hall President’s Dining Room S Fireside Room C Gezon Auditorium S Bridge: Calvin's Crossing Hickory Room Lab Theatre Chapel Bytwerk Theatre (downstairs) Dogwood Room (upstairs) (downstairs) P DeVos Grab and Go D Lobby B Spoelhof Café D Registration Desk Phi Chapel Undercroft P2 Meeter Center Lecture Hall (downstairs) DE WIT MANOR Chi Calvin Theological Theta/Epsilon Seminary P11 Seminary Seminary Chapel Apartments KNOLLCREST EAST RESIDENCES P1 S P Beta Zeta Omega Delta Seminary Auditorium Alpha Kappa Lambda MAIN ENTRANCE Gamma Sigma BURTON STREET 2 ‹¤› campus map A hearty welcome . Our sincere thanks to those returning to the Festival and to those joining us for the first time . You, of course, provide the energy, WELCOME substance, personality, and purpose of the Festival . Thank you in advance for all of the ideas, questions, affirmations, challenges, stories, and laughs that you will stir into the Festival pudding this weekend . We count on you to give as much as you get, and you never let us down . And, of course, we believe you will get a lot . On offer is a line-up of authors, editors, and book people of all stripes who will share the best and deepest of their writing lives and challenge you to seek and share the best of yours . Surprises are the norm—and the most fun . Many of the authors featured this year seem to have a special talent for surprising us, rescuing basic universal truths from cliché and excavating the complexity beneath those simple truths . Anne Lamott sets Help, Thanks, Wow on the foundation “that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple,” but as she erects her simple frame, she asks how we can begin even to comprehend prayer when it is “so real, so huge, beyond mystery” and we are “so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little ”. Gene Yuen Lang’s American Born Chinese deflects the exhortation to “be yourself” to the task of making us realize how hard it is to do that: How we can bend ourselves to the colossal challenge of being who we were created to be? In The Year of Biblical Womanhood, Rachel Held Evans converts our curiosity about how she will fare in her attempt to “live biblically” to the question of how biblical living reshapes the way we read the Bible—or any sacred text . And James McBride, fueled by his sustaining belief that humans have more in common than in division, couples the two main characters of The Good Lord Bird to test this article of faith; he pushes our noses into the mud and blood of a caricatured 1850s America, and we see how an irreverent, self-preserving, adolescent slave and America’s most important and outlandish religious fanatic, John Brown, reconceive the genius of Brown’s faith and hope in our common humanity . McBride’s “whopper” also reminds us that we often learn best through eager, attentive play . So sport with G . Willow Wilson’s tech-savvy genies, Amy Leach’s famished but fussy pandas, Christopher Beha’s searching storytellers, Julia Spencer-Fleming’s winsome townsfolk, Okey Ndibe’s bewildered Ike, and so many more . Please engage and enjoy yourself: listen, question, create, laugh, befriend, and “friend ”. And let us know if there is anything—anything at all—we can do to help . — the Festival 2014 planning team, on behalf of the Calvin College English Department welcome ‹¤› 3 Community Partners Ann Byle Sylvia Cooper WITH Grand Rapids Public Library Rachel Craddock Grand Valley State University GRATITUDE Mary Anne Culbertson Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Ed Cyzewski Pierce Cedar Creek Institute Allison Duncan Greg Dunn and Shelly LeMahieu Dunn Design Team Roseann Dykstra Shanda Blue Easterday Hyde Creative, graphic design Lesa Engelthaler General Underwriters Sandy DeGroot, Kathy DeJong, Elaine Kathie Evenhouse Baker Publishing Group Hannink, Jean Lappinga, Mary Meekhof, and Mihaela Apostol Webb, banner design Susan Hudson Fox Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary Eastern Floral, plant and floral design Shirley Freeman Lion Hudson Brenda Gibson Wm . B . Eerdmans Publishing Company Bee Gosnell WestBow Press Technology Consultants Dorothy Littell Greco Zondervan PEC Technologies, website and database Melody Harrison Hanson construction Trina Hayes Richard and Sheila Henderson Endowments Friends of the Festival Judith Henson Henry and Ruth Baron Family Endowment Laura Hoekstra Wiersma Memorial Endowment ORGANIZATIONS Merrie Sue Holtan abookchick .com Kelly Hughes Bruce Buursma Communications/ Rachel Hyde Calvin Partners Words Well Done LaVerna B . Johnson Asian Studies Program Lipscomb University Randi Kawakita Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning nicholas-h2o Roberta King Calvin Alumni Association Oak Knoll Readers and Writers Deborah Kohn Calvin Campus Store Janette E . Kok Calvin Institute of Christian Worship INDIVIDUALS Mary Hulst and Drew Kromminga Campus Ministries Jessica Lueck and Jason Akin Mary D . Lagerwey Center Art Gallery Charlene Andrew Pamela Leggett Classics Department Jorella Andrews Donald and Linda LeMahieu Hekman Library M . Lynn Arwady Rhonda Lubberts Honors Program Dave and Mary Bardolph Amy Maczuzak Knollcrest East Apartments Katelyn Beaty Aaron Massung Office of Admissions John and Judy Bielema MaryAnn McKibben Dana Office of Multicultural Affairs Dan and Kate Bolt Janice and Thomas McWhertor Sexuality Series Marcia Bosscher Kristin A . Meekhof Student Activities Office Eve Bradshaw Anne Mitchell Student Life Division Laura Lynn Brown Bill Montgomery Kelly Boyte Brill Mavis Moon Annette Byl Kris Opie 4 ‹¤› gratitude Robert and Judy Otte Student Committee Student Intern Sharon and Henry Ottens Corrie Baker Ellie Hutchison Don and Evonne Plantinga Sarah Kuipers Ball Diane and Herman Praamsma Becca Berends Kristy Quist Lydia Beukelman The Calvin Community Kathy Reinke Stephanie Bradshaw Mardee Rightmyer We are indebted to the entire Calvin Sara Conrad community for providing the energy, Lois Hoitenga Roelofs Hayley Cox resources, hospitality, and expertise needed Carol J . Rottman Lauren Cremean to host the Festival and help it run smoothly . Jean A . Schreur Maria Cupery Please join us in gratefully acknowledging Philip Sefton Ben DeVries the many individuals, offices, and departments Chloe Selles Sarah De Vries who have worked so hard to put on this event . Peg Carmack Short Audrey Enters From the largest of tasks to the smallest, Ella Mae Smith Hayoung Eom from the obvious to the unnoticed, their Bruce Stambaugh Anneke Essenburg work has made this event possible, and for Daniel Feng Craig and Cindy Steffen that we are immensely thankful . We are Jenna Griffin Kerry and Ruthanne Stoltzfus especially grateful to staff members in Gabe Gunnink Jerome Stueart the following offices: Trent Heille Christina M . Tazelaar Audio-Visual Christina Hill Janna Roop and Allen Timm Box Office Max Howard Pauline Trembley Campus Ministries Michael Kelly Phyllis Van Andel Grace Kim Campus Safety Esther Van Zytveld Josiah Kinney Campus Store Cynthia Vander Woude Jessica Koranda Communications and Marketing Karl and Connie Kuiper VanDyke Erin Koster Conferences and Campus Events Suzann Van Klompenberg Catherine Kramer Financial Services Denise Vredevoogd Claire Lambert Food Service Wanda L . Weber Julia LaPlaca Instructional Graphics Cheryl Weeks-Rosten Evans Lodge Media Relations Helen Wentzheimer Maryanne Loughran Office of the President David Westendorp Tanice Mast Office of the Provost Mary C . Woodiwiss Linnea McLaughlin Physical Plant Mary Zwaanstra Adam Meyer Prince Conference Center Nikita Quincy Miner Abby Zwart Printing Services Sarah Nikkel Marlene and Paul Zwier Student Activities Office Erin Smith .
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