ADULT LITERATURE PROGRAMS AND AUTHOR EVENTS ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA JUNE 26–JULY 2, 2008 LIVE! @your library Reading Stage
Aisle 2500 in the Exhibition Hall
Take a break from a day of meetings and programs and stop by the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage in the exhibition hall to enjoy readings from new and favorite authors and poets, learn how to develop author programs for your library, and find new recommendations for your patrons.
The 2008 LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage is presented by the ALA Public Programs Office.
Saturday, June 28 Sunday, June 29 Monday, June 30 Noon Francesca Lia Block Anya Ulinich Firoozeh Dumas 12:30 Matthew Eck Kaya McLaren Brunonia Barry 1:00 Bich Minh Nguyen Graciela Limón Keir Graff 1:30 Yxta Maya Murray John Francis Ellis Avery 2:00 Leif Engler John Clinch Daniel White 2:30 Nina Revoyr Alan Bern Kimberly Pauley 3:00 Lisa Hernandez Dan Kennedy Mark Doty 3:30 Culture Clash Lila Karp Alex Lemon
Each reading will be followed by an autograph session. See pages 1-3 for biographies and photos of these authors and poets.
The ALA Public Programs Office is proud to present this year’s LIVE! Stage emcees:
Saturday: Jane Gibson, Librarian, Seattle Public Library
Sunday: Rochelle Hartman, Information Services Manager, LaCrosse Public Library, Wisconsin
Monday: Brad Hooper, Editor, Adult Books, Booklist Magazine
2 LIVE! @your library Reading Stage Author Biographies
Ellis Avery is the winner of a Lambda Jon Clinch’s first novel, Finn Literary Award and an Ohioana (Random House, 2007) l l Library Award for her first novel, i was named one of the best novels e o d N r ’ a O t The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead Books, of 2007 by the Washington Post, t l r e A a h e 2006). In 2001, Three Lines, One the Chicago Tribune, the Christian t c i a K M : : Road, a year's worth of daily haiku Science Monitor and Book Sense. It o o t t o o h h P P exchanged between Avery and was also shortlisted for the National Melissa Demian, was a finalist in the National Poetry Book Critics Circle's first-ever Best Recommended List Series. Avery is also the author of a nonfiction book, and the Sargent First Novel Prize. The Smoke Week, a personal account of life in Manhattan after 9/11. Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza) Brunonia Barry spent nearly a has performed in such venues as decade in Hollywood before return- the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln ing to her native Massachusetts, Center, New York Shakespeare where along with her husband, she Festival/Public Theater and co-founded an innovative company countless university and community that creates award-winning word, stages. Founded in San Francisco in 1984, and visual and logic puzzles. In recent anthologized by Theater Communications Group, this years she has written books for the Beacon Street troupe of writers/performers surveys contemporary Girls, a fictional series for ‘tweens. The Lace Reader Latino/Chicano culture in America from its own unique (William Morrow, 2008) is her first original novel. perspective.
Alan Bern is a poet and author of Mark Doty’s eight books of poems children’s picture and chapter and four books of nonfiction prose books, as well as a storyteller and have been honored by the National y
a performer for both children and c Book Critics Circle Award, the a L k
adults. For the past fourteen years r PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First a M
Alan has worked as a librarian in : Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times o t o
public libraries in the San Francisco h Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, P Bay Area. His newest book of poems, Waterwalking in a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and, Berkeley, was released by Daniel & Daniel Publishers in the United Kingdom, the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is a in spring 2007. professor at the University of Houston and lives in New York City. Francesca Lia Block is renowned for her groundbreaking novels and Firoozeh Dumas self-published stories, including her best-selling Funny in Farsi in 2003 with no prior r e s s
first book, Weetzie Bat u writing experience, as a gift for her a R
(HarperTrophy, 1989). She is also e children. The Persian version of i n h
the recipient of the 2005 Margaret a Funny in Farsi is currently one of the p e t S
A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement : bestselling books in Iran. Her work o t o
Award from the American Library Association. Her h has been featured in The New York P latest book is Quakeland (Manic D Press, Inc., 2008). Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Lifetime Magazine, and on NPR. Her next book, Laughing Without an Accent, a series of autobiographical essays, was published by Random House in May, 2008.
1 LIVE! @your library Reading Stage Author Biographies
Matthew Eck enlisted in the Army Lila Karp has taught literature, in 1992, and served in Somalia film and feminist theory in women’s and Haiti. He has a BA in English studies programs at universities Literature from Wichita State throughout the country. The former University, and received his MFA in director of the Princeton University Creative Writing from the University Women’s Center, Karp was also the of Montana. He currently teaches co-director of The Institute for the creative writing and literature at University of Central Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern Missouri. The Farther Shore (Milkweed, 2007) is his California. Her autobiographical novel, The Queen Is in first novel. the Garbage (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007) was originally published in 1971 and has been reprinted by Leif Enger’s bestseller Peace Like a the Feminist Press in their Classic Feminist Writers series. River was the winner of the Book Sense Book of the Year and one of Dan Kennedy is author of the books r e g Time’s top-five novels of 2001. His Rock On (Algonquin Books, 2008) n E n i second novel, So Brave, Young, and h and Loser Goes First, and a long- t b i o m R S : Handsome (Grove/Atlantic, Inc.), was standing contributor at McSweeney’s. o n t e o h h p
P released in April 2008. He lives on a He lives in New York City and performs e t S
farm in Minnesota with his wife and two sons. : spoken word gigs and readings on o t o h stages across the country. P John Francis is the founder and c i h director of Planetwalk, a nonprofit Alex Lemon’s first poetry collection, p a r g environmental education organiza- Mosquito, which documents his slow o e G l tion and the author of the memoir recovery from brain surgery as a a n o i t Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking, young man, was hailed by Publishers a N
: 17 Years of Silence. He travels Weekly as an “edgy, energetic, even o t o h
P around the world speaking on pil- frenetic debut from a rising star grimage and change, and on Planetlines, an environ- of the Midwest.” He is the co-editor mental studies curriculum based on the walking pil- of LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation and grimage, which he is developing for K-12 schools and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review. universities. His newest collection is entitled Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed, 2008). Keir Graff is the author of the political thrillers One Nation, Under Graciela Limón is the critically-
f God (Severn House, July 2008), My acclaimed and award-winning author f a r
G Fellow Americans and, writing as of six novels: Left Alive, Erased n a e
S Michael McCulloch, the crime novel Faces, The Day of the Moon, Song of y b
o Cold Lessons. He is the senior the Hummingbird, The Memories of t o h
P editor of Booklist Online, where he Ana Calderón and In Search of writes the popular blog, “Likely Stories.” A native of Bernabé, all from Arte Público Press. Missoula, Montana, he lives in Chicago. Limón is Professor Emeritus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she served as a Lisa Hernandez is a native of professor of U.S. Latina/o Literature and chair of the Pasadena, California, where she lives Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. with her husband and daughter. She teaches English at Los Angeles Community College and coordinates literacy programs for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Migrations and Other Stories (Arte Publico Press, 2007) is her first published book.
2 Kaya McLaren lives and teaches ele- Anya Ulinich began studying art mentary school art on the east slope as a child in Moscow. At seventeen, of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington. she immigrated to the United States, a i c s
She is the author of Church of the a where she attended the School i c S
Dog, which was rereleased by a of the Art Institute of Chicago and s i L
Penguin in May, 2008. When she’s : received an MFA from the University o t o h
not working, she likes to telemark P of California at Davis. In 2000, she ski, sit in hot springs, moonlight hike and play in lakes moved to Brooklyn, abandoned painting and began to with her dog, Big Cedar. write. Petropolis (Viking USA, 2007) is her first novel.
Yxta Maya Murray is the author of Daniel White is a journalist and The Queen Jade and The Conquest. author whose work has appeared in
n She was chosen as a Barnes and the New York Times, the Los Angeles w o r
B Noble Discover pick for The Times, and Backpacker magazine. w e r Conquest, and she was a 1999 He received his MFA from Columbia d n A
: Whiting Award-winner for fiction. University, and he lives in the o t o h The second volume in her Red Lion San Francisco Bay Area. His first P series, The King’s Gold (HarperCollins), was published non-fiction book is The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My in May, 2008. She teaches law at Loyola Law School in Mind And Almost Found Myself On the Pacific Crest Los Angeles, where she currently lives. Trail (HarperCollins).
Bich Minh Nguyen is the author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Penguin,
e 2008), winner of the PEN/Jerard v e r h Award, a Chicago Tribune Best Book S r e t
r of 2007, and a Book Sense pick. o P
: She teaches literature and creative o t o h writing at Purdue University and P lives with her husband, novelist Porter Shreve, in West Lafayette, Indiana and Chicago.
Kimberly Pauley loves a good book she can sink her teeth into. She is book reviewer for Young Adult Books Central (www.yabookscentral.com). Sucks to Be Me (Mirrorstone, forthcoming August 2008) is her first novel. She lives in Illinois.
Nina Revoyr was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a Polish- American father, and grew up in n o t r
a Japan, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. B e i l She is the author of The Necessary s e L :
o Hunger and Southland, which was a t o h
P Book Sense 76 pick, winner of the Ferro-Grumley and Lambda Literary Awards, a finalist for an Edgar Award, and one of the Los Angeles Times’ Best Books of 2003. Her newest novel is The Age of Dreaming (Akashic Books, 2008).
3 Sponsored by the ALA Public Programs Office
Traveling Exhibits for Libraries: We the People Picturing America: Presenting New Opportunities Programs in Your School or Public Library Saturday, June 28 Saturday, June 28 10:30 a.m. – noon 10:30 a.m. – noon Anaheim Convention Center, 203A Anaheim Convention Center, 213C
Staff from the Space Telescope Science Institute, Project directors for the National Endowment Baltimore, MD, will share information about a for the Humanities’ Picturing America(SM) pilot library exhibit celebrating the International Year initiative share their experiences using the of Astonomy. Exhibits on Jewish themes from Picturing America poster collection to conduct Nextbook—a gateway to Jewish literature, culture programs in school and public libraries. Librarians and ideas, and other exhibit grant opportunities who applied to receive the grant in 2008 are invited will be discussed. to attend for programming tips, new ideas and Speakers: Denise Smith and Frank Summers, best practices. Information about how to apply for Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD; the collection this fall will also be offered. Susan Brandehoff, Program Director, Speakers: Thomas Phelps, Director, Division of ALA Public Programs Office. Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities; Lainie Castle, Project Director, ALA Public Programs Office.
Soul of a People: Voices from the Writers’ Project Sunday, June 29 10:30 a.m. – noon Anaheim Convention Center, 203B
Learn about library outreach programs and other events associated with a new Spark Media television documentary on the WPA Federal Writers’ Project, Soul of the People: Voices from the Writers’ Project, to be broadcast in spring 2009. Speakers: Andrea Kalin, President and Executive Producer, Spark Media, Washington, DC; David Bradley, Author and Associate Professor, University of Oregon; Susan Brandehoff, Program Director, ALA Public Programs Office.
4 PRIME TIME FAMILY READING: Let’s Talk About It: Bilingual Programs Expand Nationally Love & Forgiveness Sunday, June 29 Monday, June 30 10:30 a.m. – noon 10:30 a.m. – noon Marriott Anaheim, Salon A-D Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203A
How can your library reach the under-served, or Organized by the ALA Public Programs Office and never served, Spanish speaking families in your the Fetzer Institute as part of its Campaign for community? Attend this session to hear librarians Love & Forgiveness, Let’s Talk About It: Love & from around the country discuss their successes Forgiveness is a theme-based, scholar-led reading with PRIME TIME in reaching this audience and and discussion series that explores the best in creating new library users. Presenters will share contemporary and classic literature. Thirty grants their expertise and experience with funding are available for public libraries interested in hosting opportunities and strategies to bring this award- the series. Session attendees will gain valuable winning humanities-themes-based family literacy information about the July 15, 2008, deadline as program to your community. well as insights from advisors, program planners Speakers: Thomas Phelps, Director, Division and the national project scholar. of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Speakers: Amy Ferguson, Communication Humanities; Lainie Castle, Project Director, ALA Specialist, The Fetzer Institute; Betty Sue Flowers, Public Programs Office; Faye Flanagan, Director, Ph.D., Director, Johnson Presidential Library; PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME, Louisiana Mary Davis Fournier, Program Director, ALA Public Endowment for the Humanities; Pat Lawson- Programs Office; Barbara Peterson, Director, North, Executive Director, Vision Literacy, Santa Council Bluffs Public Library. Clara County Library, California; Anne Masters, Director, Pioneer Library System, Oklahoma.
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“Mobile Libraries: Driving Library Services into the Future” Lunch with Masha Hamilton Sunday, June 29 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency Orange County, Grand E/F Tickets: $25 Masha Hamilton is the author of two previous books, The Distance Between Us and Staircase of a Thousand Steps. Her most recent work is The Camel Bookmobile, published by HarperCollins. As a journalist she has worked for NBC, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press and several other well-known news organizations around the globe. She has spent an extensive amount of time in Russia, Africa and the Middle East doing research and writing. A graduate of Brown University, Hamilton currently lives with her family in New York City.
6 Presented by Booklist Magazine
Post-9/11 Fiction Booklist Adult Books Readers’ Advisory Forum Sunday, June 29 1:30-3:30 p.m. Anaheim Convention Center, 304A/B
Four writers of wide range will speak, specifically, about their most recent novels, all of which, in some fashion and context, fall into the growing category of post-9/11 fiction. Each panelist will discuss his or her new novel, how they perceive it—or not—as part of the post-9/11 trend and perhaps delight us by reading a few pages. Moderator: Brad Hooper, Editor, Adult Books, Booklist.
Authors
Ellen Gilchrist has a distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer. Her collection of n
o stories Victory Over Japan won the 1984 s y T a
l National Book Award. Her new novel is entitled r a C
y A Dangerous Age. b o t o h P Keir Graff—Booklist Online’s own senior editor— recently published his second novel, f f My Fellow Americans. He is also a book reviewer a r G
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y on publishing news and the art of the review. b o t o h P
Carolyn See has enjoyed a wide and devoted s r readership through such novels as e d n a Making History and The Handy Man. Her most S n y l i
r recent novel, which she will be discussing, is a M
y There Will Never Be Another Year. b o t o h P Janette Turner Hospital is a beloved fiction writer for public library patrons. Before her most d n a r
e recent novel, Due Prepartions for the Plague, she y A n entertained and impressed her fans with such o s r a e J y
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For more information: www.booklistonline.com
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PLA President’s Program & Awards Presentation Featuring Jamie Lee Curtis Monday, June 30, 5:00- 6:30 p.m. Anaheim Convention Center, Arena
Jamie Lee Curtis is an actor, photographer and closet organizer. She is the author of children’s books, including Is There Really a Human Race?, It’s Hard to Be Five, I’m Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth. Jamie Lee Curtis is a card-carrying member of the human race and is proud of it. She is also a member of her family, her circle of friends, the Screen Actors Guild, 12-step groups and her children’s schools. She is the mother of Annie and Thomas and is married to her first husband, Christopher Guest. PLA is pleased to present Jamie Lee Curtis as part of the ALA Auditorium Speakers Series, through the support of HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Following her talk and the awards presentation, attendees are welcome to join PLA President Jan Sanders for a gala, music-filled reception.
8 Presented by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
Book Group Therapy: How to Repair, Literary Tastes Breakfast Revamp and Revitalize Your Book Group Sunday, June 29, 2008 Featuring Nancy Pearl 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Sunday, June 29, 2008 Hilton Anaheim, California 10:30 a.m. – noon Pavilion D Disneyland Hotel, Disneyland North BR Tickets: $36
Nancy Pearl (www.nancypearl.com) will The Literary Tastes Breakfast is a fun, thought- present a program on book group therapy that provoking program celebrating the best books of will include how to make choice selections that the year by bringing librarians together with generate interesting discussions; how to deal first-time authors and well-known writers. The with domineering personalities; and the many Literary Tastes Breakfast has extended to feature roadblocks to peak participation. Nancy will award-wining authors from The Notable Books also discuss building a circulating book group List (fiction, non-fiction and poetry), The Reading collection (modeling the Seattle Public Library), List (adrenaline, fantasy, historical fiction horror, a core list of titles and readers' advisory for mystery, romance, science fiction, and women's book groups. fiction genre) and the Sophie Brody Medal (out- standing Jewish literature). This year’s breakfast features Jon Clinch, author of Finn, Joyce Antler, author of You Never Call, You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother, Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of Natural Born Charmer.
Come join your colleagues and fellow readers at this expanded program for a celebration of the power and pleasure of reading. Authors will be available to sign books after the breakfast. l l i e N ’ O l e a h c i M : o t o h P Jon Clinch Joyce Antler
Ron Carlson Susan Elizabeth Phillips
9 Presented by ALA Conference Services
Opening General Session Auditorium Speaker Series Saturday, June 28, 5:30-6:30 pm Anaheim Convention Center, Arena Stephen Cannell Speaker to be announced Saturday, June 28, 8:00–9:00 a.m. Anaheim Convention Center, Arena
Stephen Cannell, an Emmy Closing Session Award-winning writer/producer Featuring Diahann Carroll and chairman of Cannell studios, Tuesday, July 1, 11:00 – noon will kick off the Auditorium Anaheim Convention Center, Arena Speakers Series. Cannell is the best-selling author of 12 novels, Diahann Carroll is one of including the critically acclaimed Shane Scully America’s major performing series. In a highly successful career that spans talents. She is a Tony Award three decades, Cannell has created or co-created winner, an Emmy and Grammy more than 40 television shows. Sponsored by nominee, a Golden Globe Vanguard Press winner, a Best Actress Oscar nominee and the author of The Legs Are the Last Vernon Jordan to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering, and Saturday, June 28, 10:30–11:30 a.m. Other Things I Learned Along the Way. In the Anaheim Convention Center, Arena tradition of recent memoirs an entertainment legend comes clean on what it’s like to be a path Vernon Jordan is the author of breaker, a diva, “television’s first black bitch,” Make it Plain, a history and an and an aging star in Tinseltown. In April 2006, she embodiment of black speech at debuted in her new cabaret show at Feinstein’s, its finest. Jordan is a senior New York’s prime venue, to sell-out audiences managing director of Lazard receiving overwhelming reviews. Her television Frères & Co. LLC in New York. nominations go back to 1963, and most recently, Prior to joining Lazard, Jordan was a senior she has appeared on ABC-TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” executive partner with the law firm of Akin Gump as the outspoken Jane Burke. Sponsored by Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where he remains HarperCollins Publishers senior counsel. He has also served in the National Urban League, Inc., the United Negro College Fund, Inc., the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Jordan is also the author of Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (2001). Sponsored by Public Affairs
10 Greg Mortenson Sally Ride and Tam O’Shaughnessy Saturday, June 28, 1:30 –2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 29, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Anaheim Convention Center, Arena Anaheim Convention Center, Arena
Greg Mortenson is the co-author Sally Ride of the New York Times bestseller and Tam Three Cups of Tea, which O’Shaughnessy has been a bestseller since its are co-authors of release, and was Time Magazine You Go, Girl! Girls Asia Book of The Year. He also is (and Boys) Can the co-founder of the Pennies for Peace project, Make a Difference for Our Planet. Ride will present and the non-profit Central Asia Institute. a program about how our climate is changing and Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote present a convincing case that “you don’t have education and literacy, especially for girls, in to be a grown-up” to make a positive impact on remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. the environment. O’Shaughnessy is a professor of Sponsored by Penguin school psychology and children’s science. She has co-authored four award-winning books with Sally Don Borchert Ride. This fall they will publish Mission: Planet Sunday, June 29, 8:00-9:30 a.m. Earth and the companion book Mission: Save the Anaheim Convention Center, Arena Planet, a “how-to” for kids on ways they can make a difference. Sponsored by ALSC and RB Don Borchert, author and librarian, introduces his first book, “A Conversation with James Frey,” with Leonard l h Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, Kniffel, Editor in Chief, American Libraries a d r o
J And Gangstas In The Public Sunday, June 29, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. y r a C
: Library. Borchert reveals why it’s Anaheim Convention Center, Arena o t o h
P necessary for even suburban libraries (like the one in Maplewood, New Jersey) James Frey is the author of to have lock-downs. His book is a portrait of A Million Little Pieces and My n o s d
contemporary America, and of day-to-day life in a r Friend Leonard. Originally from a h c i
public library. Sponsored by Virgin Books R Cleveland, he was educated at y r r e
T Denison University and the School : o t o h of the Art Institute of Chicago. Frey P now lives in New York City with his wife and their daughter. His newest book, Bright Shiny Morning, is a sweeping, kaleidoscopic novel that captures the divided soul of America’s most alluring city. It is a portrait of Los Angeles as it has never been seen before, told through the stories of its inhabitants living on the fault line between hope and oblivion. Sponsored by HarperCollins Publishers
11 Presented by ALA Conference Services Auditorium Speaker Series
Dean Koontz ALSC President's Program featuring Monday, June 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m. T.B. Brazelton, MD Anaheim Convention Center, Arena Monday, June 30, 8:00-9:30 a.m. Anaheim Convention Center, Arena When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Raising a child has never been Atlantic Monthly fiction easy. Parents want to encourage competition and has been their children to believe in writing ever since. His books themselves, yet must struggle to are published in 38 languages prepare them for a competitive and have sold 325 million copies. Ten of world that they must face before his novels have risen to number one on the they are ready. Parents need time for their New York Times hardcover bestseller list, families, more time than they have, someone to including One Door Away From Heaven, From turn to with their children’s baffling behavior, and The Corner Of His Eye, Midnight, Intensity, Sole a community to rely on. Based on T.B. Brazelton’s Survivor and The Husband, making him one of pioneering infant research, and more than only a dozen writers ever to have achieved 60 years of listening to parents and children, that milestone. Sponsored by Random House Touchpoints is a way of understanding and partici- pating in family development. This approach Khaled Hosseini empowers parents to discover their effectiveness Tuesday, July 1, 8:00-9:00 a.m. as parents, guiding them through their children’s Anaheim Convention Center, Arena predictable crises (Touchpoints) to support their children’s self-esteem and readiness to learn In 2007, Khaled Hosseini and to take on the world. shared with his readers the highly anticipated new n a l o
D novel, A Thousand Splendid n h o
J Suns, propelled by the : o t o h same superb instinct for P storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic. It is a heart-wrenching chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found in love. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love. The novel debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardcover fiction list, and has been on the list for 17 weeks. Sponsored by Penguin
12 Presented by the Association Presented by for Library Trustees and Friends of Libraries U.S.A. Advocates (ALTA) (FOLUSA)
ALTA President’s Program Best Sellers of a Different Color: Ethnic Saturday, June 28 Writers in America 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28 Anaheim Convention Center, 10:30 a.m. – noon Ballroom E Anaheim Convention Center, 211B
Please join ALTA president Don Roalkvam as he Join FOLUSA for a unique look at ethnic writers in welcomes Gary Moore, author of Playing with the America. Authors Tracy Brown, Bich Minh Nguyen, Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Yxta Maya Murray, Nikki Turner, and Nina Revoyr will be Long Journey Home (Penguin). This program is open to joined by other ethnic fiction and non-fiction writers for all conference attendees. A book signing will follow. this enlightening panel discussion. This program will be moderated by Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Gary Moore is a successful Review, Library Journal. A book signing will follow. ” ,
s entrepreneur and business n o i Tracy Brown s executive, exciting speaker and sales s e r
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o record holder and three-time t n o n h e Criminal Minded, Black, and P J Olympian Tom Jager, Championship Dynamics, LLC, a business which provided motivational Dime Piece. She lives in Staten speaking and sales training to corporations and Island, New York. organizations worldwide. Gary has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur Magazine, Bich Minh Nguyen Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Penguin)
e Bich Minh Nguyen teaches literature Management Magazine, Impromptu Magazine and v e r
h and creative writing at Purdue Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, and was named S r e t
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the prestigious Sam Walton Leadership Award. P Lafayette, Indiana and Chicago. Gary is a graduate of VanderCook College of Music. Yxta Maya Murray King’s Gold (HarperCollins)
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h Life, Riding Dirty on I-95, Forever a P Hustler’s Wife (which hit the USA Today and Essence bestseller lists), as well as the forthcoming Black Widow. In 2007 she published a novella under 50 Cent’s G-Unit book line, Death Before Dishonor, which 50 Cent optioned for his production company. She lives near Richmond, Virginia. 13 Presented by Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA)
Nina Revoyr Thomas M. Kostigen The Age of Dreaming (Akashic Books) You Are Here: The Surprising Link Nina Revoyr was born in Tokyo Between What We Do and What That n o t r a to a Japanese mother and a Polish- Does to the Planet (HarperCollins) B e i l American father, and grew up in Thomas M. Kostigen is coauthor of s e L :
o Japan, Wisconsin and Los Angeles. The New York Times bestseller The t o h
P She is the author of two previous Green Book: The Everyday Guide to novels, The Necessary Hunger and Southland (Akashic, Saving the Planet, One Simple Step at a Time. He writes 2003), the latter of which was a Book Sense 76 pick, the “Ethics Monitor” column for MarketWatch, and is a won the Ferro-Grumley and Lambda Literary awards, longtime journalist and former Bloomberg News editor. was an Edgar Award finalist and was named one of the Kostigen has been writing about global warming, the Los Angeles Times’ “Best Books of 2003.” She lives environment, social issues, and government policies and works in Los Angeles. for almost two decades and his work has appeared in numerous publications around the world. He is a Protecting Planet Earth recognized expert and speaker on social responsibility, Sunday, June 29 including issues such as water, electronic waste, energy consumption and carbon emissions. 10:30 a.m. – noon Anaheim Convention Center, 203A John Francis, Ph.D. c i
h Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking, 17 p a r
Authors Patrick Carman, Dan Koeppel, Thomas M. g
o Years of Silence (National Geographic) e G Kostigen, John Francis, PhD, and William Fox will discuss l John Francis, Ph.D. is the Founder and a n o i both fiction and non-fiction books dealing with environ- t Director of Planetwalk, a nonprofit a N
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erated by Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review, h P He travels around the world speaking Library Journal. A book signing will follow. on pilgrimage and change, and on Planetlines, an environmental studies curriculum based on the walking Patrick Carman pilgrimage, which he is developing for K-12 schools and River of Fire and The House of Power universities. (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Patrick Carman’s first book, William Fox The Dark Hills Divide (Land of Elyon Making Time (Counterpoint) series) spent more than 20 weeks on William Fox is the recipient of a n e
the New York Times bestseller list. s n Guggenheim fellowship and a a H
Patrick worked in advertising for a decade and has also y National Science Foundation grant, n o T
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P visiting scholar at the Getty Research Dan Koeppel (Hudson Street Press) Institute and a Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Fox is the author of several books, including Terra Changed the World (Penguin) Antarctica, In the Desert of Desire and the forthcoming Dan Koeppel is a well-known out- Aereality, which will be published by Counterpoint in doors, nature and adventure writer Winter 2009. He lives in Burbank, California. who has written for the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Audubon, Popular Science and National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. Koeppel has also appeared on CNN and Good Morning America and is a former commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace.
14 First Author, First Book Daniel White Sunday, June 29 The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My 1:30 p.m.– 3:30 p.m. Mind—and Almost Found Myself—on the Pacific Crest Trail (HarperCollins) Anaheim Convention Center, 203A Dan White is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New Join new (and soon to be best-selling) authors as they York Times, the Los Angeles Times talk about their first adventure in writing, what motivates and Backpacker magazine. He received his MFA from them and how they got published. This program has Columbia University, and he lives in the San Francisco become a favorite for those looking for the “next big bay area. thing” in print. Authors include Kaya McLaren , Scott Douglas, Mark Sarvas, Daniel White, Janelle Brown, Anya Ulinich and Anya Ulinich. This program will be moderated by Petropolis (Penguin) Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review, Library Anya Ulinich was seventeen when her a i c
Journal. A book signing will follow. s
a family left Moscow and immigrated i c S to the United States. She attended a s i
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P received an MFA in painting from the Kaya McLaren lives and teaches ele- University of California. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. mentary school art on the east slope of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington. Janelle Brown When she’s not working, she likes to All We Ever Wanted Was Everything telemark ski, sit in hot springs, moon- (Spiegel & Grau) light hike, and play in lakes with her dog, Big Cedar. Janelle Brown is a freelance journalist who writes for The New York Times, Scott Douglas Vogue, Wired, Elle and Self, among Quiet, Please (Perseus Books) other publications, and was formerly Scott Douglas is a librarian a senior writer for Salon. She lives in Los Angeles. at the Anaheim Public Library, a job he has been chronicling for the McSweeney’s Web site since 2003.
Mark Sarvas Harry, Revised (Bloomsbury USA) Mark Sarvas is the founder of the n i popular litblog, The Elegant Variation, w o C
a which Forbes and Entertainment r a S
: Weekly have named as one of the o t o h best blogs on the web. His fiction has P appeared in Troika Magazine, The Wisconsin Review, Apostrophe, Thought Magazine, Pindeldyboz and as part of the Spoken Interludes and Vermin on the Mount reading series in Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Three Penny Review and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
15 Ticketed Events Presented by Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA)
The Laugh’s on Us! Dan Kennedy Sunday, June 29 Rock On: An Office Power Ballad h
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members) and $45 on site P McSweeney’s. His essays appear in GQ, and his work has been anthologized in Created in Comedian Paula Poundstone will help you end the day Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of with laughter when she joins some of America’s funniest McSweeney’s Humor Category, Mountain Man Dance writers and comedians including June Casagrande, Dan Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists, and other publi- Kennedy, Beth Lisick and Robert Schimmel. Wine and cations. He lives in New York City and performs spoken cheese will be served. A book signing will follow. Some word gigs and readings on stages across the country. books will be given away free and others will be available for purchase at a generous discount. This program is Beth Lisick presented with support from Brodart, Demco, ProQuest Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, and the Rosen Publishing Group. Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (William Tickets are $35 in advance ($30 for FOLUSA members) Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins) and $45 onsite. Advance ticket sales are available Beth Lisick, author of the New York online at www.folusa.org or by phone at (800) 936.5872 Times bestselling book Everybody into through June 25. Tickets will be available while supplies the Pool, is also a performer and odd-jobs enthusiast. last at booth 1839 in the exhibit hall during all exhibit Her writing has appeared in numerous publications hours and just prior to the event at the door. and anthologies including Best American Poetry, the Christian Science Monitor and Word Warriors: 35 Women Paula Poundstone Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement. She has There’s Nothing in This Book That I contributed to Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life and is the cofounder of the monthly Porchlight story- e Meant to Say (Random House) g n a telling series in San Francisco. L Paula Poundstone has been a stand-up e g r
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o long list of successes includes HBO t o h Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not P specials, an Emmy Award, two Cable ACE Awards and an American Comedy Award for included): How Humor Got Me Best Female Stand-Up. She now appears regularly on Through the Toughest Journey of National Public Radio’s “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!” My Life (Da Capo Press) Recently named as FOLUSA’s national spokesperson, In the spring of 2000, Robert Paula helps spread the word about libraries and Friends Schimmel was riding high. He’d won groups. Paula lives in Santa Monica, California, with the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a her three children. huge hit and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III June Casagrande non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he was told he would have to Mortal Syntax (Penguin) undergo chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was i n dumped and the fire of his white-hot career started to go a June Casagrande is the author of the i D
e out. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his i humorous grammar column A Word, n a h knife-like edge and most of all, his passion to entertain. p Please, which appears in community e t S : newspapers in Southern California, Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer o t o h on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one
P Texas and Florida. She has written more than 900 articles for various newspapers. Her articles man’s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and other understand himself. publications. Her first book was Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies. She lives in Pasadena, California.
16 FOLUSA-ALTA Gala Author Tea Rick Wartzman Sponsored by ReferenceUSA Obscene in the Extreme (Public Monday, June 30 Affairs Books) Rick Wartzman is the director of the 2:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m. Drucker Institute at Claremont Hyatt Regency Orange County, Graduate University in California and a Terrace Room and Foyer fellow of the New America Foundation. Tickets: $35 in advance ($30 for FOLUSA Previously he was the editor of West, the Sunday maga- & ALTA members) and $45 onsite. zine of The Los Angeles Times, where he reinvented the weekly, overhauling its content and design. He was also the Times’ Business Editor, where he shaped and edited Join FOLUSA for this traditional author event featuring the series “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which won the 2004 Ron Carlson, Christopher Reich, Rick Wartzman, Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Before joining the Brunonia Barry and Joseph Michelli. Bestselling authors Times, Rick spent fifteen years at The Wall Street Journal, talk about their current and forthcoming books. A light where he served in a variety of posts, including White repast of finger sandwiches, sweets, and tea will be House correspondent and founding editor of the paper’s served. A book signing will follow. Some books will be California edition. Rick lives in Los Angeles. given away free and others will be available for purchase at a generous discount. Brunonia Barry The Lace Reader (HarperCollins) Tickets are $35 in advance ($30 for FOLUSA & ALTA mem- Born and raised in Massachusetts, bers) and $45 onsite. Advance ticket sales are available Brunonia Barry studied literature and online at www.folusa.org or by phone at (800) 936.5872 creative writing at Green Mountain through June 25. Tickets will be available while supplies College in Vermont and the University last at booth 1839 in the exhibit hall during all exhibit of New Hampshire and was one of hours and just prior to the event at the door. the founding members of the Portland Stage Company. Barry’s love of theater led to a first job in Chicago Ron Carlson where she ran promotional campaigns for Second City, Five Skies (Penguin) Ivanhoe, and Studebaker theaters. Barry lives in Salem, Ron Carlson is the award-winning Massachusetts with her husband and their beloved author of four story collections, Golden Retriever, Byzantium. including At the Jim Bridger and The Hotel Eden, two novels, and a young Joseph Michelli adult novel. His stories appear regu- The New Gold Standard: larly in Harpers, The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, Playboy, 5 Leadership Principles for The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Creating a Legendary Customer Stories. He is the director of the MFA Creative Writing Experience Courtesy of the program at the University of California, Irvine. He lives in Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Irvine, California. (McGraw-Hill) Dr. Joseph Michelli is an organizational psychologist Christopher Reich and the Chief Experience Officer of The Michelli o i d u t Rules of Deception (Doubleday) Experience. He has dedicated his career to studying S r e k Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo successful businesses, both large and small. Prior to c a h
T in 1961. A graduate of Georgetown The New Gold Standard, Dr Michelli authored the Wall d r a h University and the University of Texas Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and USA Today bestseller, c i R : at Austin, he worked in Switzerland The Starbucks Experience –5 Principles for Turning o t o h
P before returning to the United States Ordinary into Extraordinary. Additionally, he has to pursue a career as a novelist. The bestselling author co-authored When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating a of four other acclaimed novels, Numbered Account, Vital and Energized Workplace with John Yokoyama, The Runner, The First Billion and The Devil’s Banker, he the owner of the World Famous Pike Place lives in California with his wife and children. Fish Market in Seattle.
17 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming
The Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award is awarded annually to a school library that has conducted an exemplary program or program series in the humanities during the prior school year. The award consists n a i r a f f
a of a plaque, $4,000 cash award and the J a r a
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I for other school libraries.
Visit the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage on Sunday, June 29, at 9:30 a.m. for the presentation of the 2008 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award to the Woodsdale Elementary School of Wheeling, West Virginia. Learn more about the winning program, “History Hits the Road to Woodsdale,” and join the winner for a reception in the Public Programs Office booth, #2591.
To learn more about the Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award, visit www.ala.org/publicprograms. Nominations for the 2009 award will be accepted through December 1, 2008.
18 Help secure the future of cultural library programs. Contribute by July 31, 2008.
The ALA Public Programs Office has been working since 1992 to provide the expertise, training, funding and resources that America’s libraries need to develop diverse, high-quality cultural programming for public audiences. To date, it has raised more than $15 million in grants to support thousands of libraries as they conduct exemplary programs in the humanities that have reached millions of people.
The need for broad access to inspiring literature, ideas, art and culture is greater than ever, and the demand for library programming resources continues to grow. For that reason, ALA established the Cultural Communities Fund (CCF) to provide long-term support that will help all types of libraries bring communities together through diverse and excellent cultural programming.
Begun with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Fund now totals over $1 million, contributed by an impressive list of individual and corporate sponsors. The Fund is in the final phase of raising matching funds for the NEH challenge, but needs pledges of $310,000 by July 31, 2008, in order to meet the terms of the grant. In short, we are in the homestretch, but we need your help to reach the finish line.
To make your tax-deductible donation, please return the attached reply envelope with your gift. You may also visit the Public Programs Office booth #2591 or contribute online at www.ala.org/ccf.
19 Adult Literature and Author Programs by Date & Time
Time Title Sponsor(s) Location Saturday, June 28 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Auditorium Speaker Series CS ACC, Arena featuring Stephen Cannell 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Vernon Jordan 10:30 a.m. – Noon Best Sellers of a Different Color: FOLUSA ACC, 211B Ethnic Writers in America 10:30 a.m. – Noon Traveling Exhibits for Libraries: PPO ACC, 203A New Opportunities 10:30 a.m. – Noon We the People Picturing America: PPO ACC, 213C Presenting Programs in Your School or Public Library 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Francesca Lia Block on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Matthew Eck on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Bich Minh Nguyen on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Yxta Maya Murray on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Greg Mortenson 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. ALTA President’s Program ALTA ACC, Ballroom E 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Leif Enger on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Nina Revoyr on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Lisa Hernandez on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Culture Clash on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Opening General Session: CS ACC, Arena Speaker to be announced
Sunday, June 29 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Don Borchert 8:00 – 10:30 a.m. Literary Tastes Breakfast RUSA HIL, California Pavilion D 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Sally Ride and Tam O’Shaughnessy 10:30 a.m. – Noon Book Group Therapy: How to Repair, RUSA DIS, Disneyland North BR Revamp and Revitalize Your Book Group 10:30 a.m. – Noon Protecting Planet Earth CS ACC, 203A 10:30 a.m. – Noon Soul of a People: Voices from the PPO ACC, 203B Writers’ Project 10:30 a.m. – Noon PRIME TIME FAMILY READING: PPO MAR, Salon A-D Bilingual Programs Expand Nationally 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Mobile Libraries: Driving Library Services OLOS HYATT, Grand E/F into the Future
20 Time Title Sponsor(s) Location Sunday, June 29 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Anya Ulinich on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Kaya McLaren on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Graciela Limón on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. John Francis on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. “A Conversation with James Frey” CS ACC, Arena 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. First Author, First Book FOLUSA ACC, 203A 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Post 9/11 Fiction Booklist ACC, 304A/B 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. John Clinch on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Alan Bern on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Dan Kennedy on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Lila Karp on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. The Laugh’s on Us! FOLUSA ACC, 201A/B
Monday, June 30 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. ALSC President’s Program featuring ALSC ACC, Arena T.B. Brazelton M.D. 10:30 a.m. – Noon Let’s Talk About It: Love & Forgiveness PPO ACC, 203A Noon – 12:30 p.m. Firoozeh Dumas on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Brunonia Barry on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Keir Graff on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Ellis Avery on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Dean Koontz 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Daniel White on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. FOLUSA-ALTA Gala Author Tea FOLUSA HYATT, Terrace Room and Foyer 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Kimberly Pauley on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Mark Doty on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Alex Lemon on LIVE! Stage PPO ACC, Exhibit Hall 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. PLA President’s Program featuring PLA ACC, Arena Jamie Lee Curtis Tuesday, July 1 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Auditorium Speaker Series featuring CS ACC, Arena Khaled Hosseini 11:00 a.m. – Noon Closing Session featuring Diahann Carroll CS ACC, Arena
ACC: Anaheim Convention Center DIS: Disneyland Hotel HIL: Hilton Anaheim HYATT: Hyatt Regency Orange County MAR: Marriott Anaheim
21 ALA Annual Conference This brochure was created by the The American Library Association (ALA) Annual ALA Public Programs Office, in cooperation with: Conference is the world’s largest and most comprehen- sive library conference and exhibition. Drawing over G ALA Conference Services 26,000 librarians, educators, writers, publishers and G ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) special guests, the conference includes more than 2,000 G Booklist Magazine meetings, discussion groups and programs on topics G Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA) affecting libraries. To learn more and to register, visit G Public Library Association (PLA) www.ala.org and select “Events & Conferences.” G Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
ALA Public Programs Office Visit the Public Programs Office in booth #2591 on the exhibit floor for information about cultural programs for libraries, including grant opportunities, training resources, traveling exhibitions, book and media discussion series and author and artist appearances. To learn more, visit www.ala.org/publicprograms, or contact [email protected] or 312.280.5045 to request information.
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