By MARGO HAMMOND, Times Staff Writer
Published October 23, 2005
Clip this column and check out these authors at the Times Festival of Reading on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Now in its 13th year, the festival has moved to the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. For information, visit www.festivalofreading.com
FROM RED HATS TO BRA STRAPS
Sue Ellen Cooper (The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines); 10-10:45 a.m., Campus Activities Center
Panel on Women Today: Are We Better Off Than Our Mothers? with Rona Jaffe (The Best of Everything), Candace Bushnell (Lipstick Jungle), Jeanne Bice (Pull Yourself Up By Your Bra Straps) and moderator Margo Hammond; 2:15-3:15 p.m., Poynter North.
Panelists also have individual sessions: Candace Bushnell, 12:30-1:15 p.m., Campus Activities Center; Rona Jaffe 4:15-5 p.m., Davis Hall 130; Jeanne Bice, 4:15-5 p.m., Campus Activities Center
CHICK LIT
Beverly Brandt (The Tiara Club); 3-3:45 p.m., Davis Hall 105
POLITICS: PAST AND PRESENT
Panel on The American Empire: The Power of Politics & the Politics of Power with Robert Merry (Sands of Empire), Craig Crawford (Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media) and David Rothkopf (Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power) with moderator Bill Mitchell, 10-11 a.m., Poynter South
Panelists also have individual sessions: David Rothkopf, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Poynter North; Robert Merry, 4:15-5 p.m., Poynter North; Craig Crawford, 4:15-5 p.m., Poynter South
Joan Biskupic (Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice); 11:15 a.m.-noon, Poynter South
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln); 3-3:45 p.m., Campus Activities Center
MONEY AND KATRINA
Joseph Treaster (Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend); Treaster will also speak about his coverage of the Katrina disaster; 3:15-4 p.m., Poynter South
A QUESTION OF WAR
Andrew Carroll (Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters); 11:15 a.m.-noon, Davis Hall 105
Quang X. Pham (A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey); 12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m., Davis Hall 105
OCTOBER: ANTI-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTH
Victor Rivas Rivers (A Private Family Matter); 12:45 p.m.-1:30 p.m., Poynter North
BE INSPIRED
Richard Paul Evans (The Sunflower); 10-10:45 a.m., Poynter South
Greg Smith (On a Roll); 12:30-1:15 p.m., Poynter South
Christopher Scanlan and Katharine Fair (The Holly Wreath Man); 12:30-1:15 p.m., Davis Hall 103
Mim Eichler Rivas (Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World); 4:15-5 p.m., Davis Hall 105
ON WRITING
Panel on Writing Couples: How Two Authors Survive Under the Same Roof, with Jim and Kate Lehrer, Victor Rivas Rivers and Mim Eichler Rivas, Lenore Hart and David Poyer, moderated by Christopher Scanlan and Katharine Fair; 1:45-2:45 p.m., Poynter South
Panel on From Idea to Bookstore: How a Book Is Born, with novelist Lee Irby, Times reviewer Colette Bancroft and Pineapple Press publisher June Cussen; 3:15-4:15 p.m., Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
FLORIDA FLAVORED
Panel on Eyes on Florida: Looking at the State Through Different Lenses, with historian Ray Arsenault, writer Jeff Klinkenberg, novelist Lee Irby, photographer Charles Feil, with moderator historian Gary Mormino; 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
SCI-FI
Marc Giller (Hammerjack); 2-2:45 p.m., Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
HALLOWEEN TREATS
R.L. Stine (Mostly Ghostly series); 11:15 a.m.-noon, Campus Activities Center
Greg Jenkins (Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore); 10-10:45 a.m., Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
ATTENTION KIDS
Carl Hiaasen (Flush); 1:45-2:30 p.m., Campus Activities Center
Panel on Incorporating Children's Literature into the Classroom with Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Betty Birney, Adrian Fogelin and Vivian Vande Velde, with Vivian Fueyo moderating. 12:30-1:30 p.m., Florida Center for Teachers 118
Pinellas Public Library Cooperative Read Around Pinellas: Hoot; 11 a.m.-noon, Davis Hall 103
Marianne Berkes (Marsh Morning); 10:15-11 a.m., Davis Hall 104
Also in Florida Center for Teachers 118: Adrian Fogelin (The Big Nothing), 10-10:45 a.m.; Zilpha Keatley Snyder (The Unseen), 11:15-noon; Vivian Vande Velde (Heir Apparent), 1:45-2:30 p.m.; Betty Birney (The World According to Humphrey), 3-3:45 p.m.; Lee Kochenderfer (The Victory Garden) 4:15-5 p.m.
THE MENU, PLEASE
Chef Pivar (Taste of the Vinoy); 11:15 a.m.-noon, Davis Hall 130
Sarah Gardner (Read It and Eat); 1:45-2:30 p.m., Davis Hall 130
How to Pick a Cookbook: Times food editor Janet Keeler; 10-10:45 a.m., Davis Hall 130
THE LIFESTYLE CHANNEL
Tom Swick (A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania With a Maverick Traveler); 10-11 a.m., Davis Hall 102
Jennifer & Kitty O'Neil (Decorating With Funky Shui); 3:15-4 p.m., Davis Hall 130
COMICS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL
Jessica Hundley (Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons); 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Davis Hall 104
Bob Andelman (Will Eisner: A Spirited Life); 3:15-4 p.m., Davis Hall 102
THRILLERS
Barbara Parker (Suspicion of Rage); 12:45-1:30 p.m., Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
James Sheehan (The Mayor of Lexington Avenue); 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Davis Hall 102
James O. Born (Shock Wave); 2-2:45 p.m., Davis Hall 104
THE LITERARY SET
Kit Reed (Dogs of Truth); 10-10:45 a.m., Davis Hall 103
Bobbie Ann Mason (An Atomic Romance); 1:45-2:30 p.m., Davis Hall 105
Ana Castillo (Watercolor Women/Opaque Men); 2-2:45 p.m., Davis Hall 102
SPORTS & SCIENCE
Peter Golenbock (Red Sox Nation); 12:45-1:30 p.m., Davis Hall 102
David M. Oshinsky (Polio: An American Story); 1:45-2:30 p.m., Davis Hall 103
MEET THE TIMES COLUMNISTS
Howard Troxler; 3-3:30 p.m., Davis Hall 103
Robyn Blumner; 3:30-4 p.m., Davis Hall 103
Eric Deggans; 3-3:30 p.m., Davis Hall 104
Terry Tomalin 3:30-4 p.m. Davis Hall 104
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Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don't Get Fat) has cancelled.
