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his year, Fall for the Book proudly celebrates a full decade and a half of bringing
some of the world’s finest authors, artists, and thinkers to Northern Virginia, DC,
and Maryland. For 15 years, we’ve not only welcomed famous and award-winning
talents but also helped to introduce up-and-coming literary stars to eager audiences—
fostering an exchange of ideas and information, building opportunities for conversation
and connection, and in the process bringing together a diverse community of readers
from throughout the region.
This year, we’re once again broadening our horizons even further—welcoming Dave
Barry, for example, as both the first journalist and the first humorist to receive the
festival’s Fairfax Prize for literary excellence. Fall for the Book’s three other major
awards are going to equally talented writers across a wide range of genres: thriller
writer David Baldacci winning this year’s Mason Award; poet Sonia Sanchez receiving
the Busboys and Poets Award; and memoirist Cheryl Strayed accepting the Mary
Roberts Rinehart Award—terrific talents each, and each of them revealing in his or
her own way the power of the written word to move, inspire, and delight.
And these headliners are just the beginning of the nearly 150 novelists, poets, journalists,
historians, children’s book authors and more who will be entertaining audiences this
year at nearly two dozen venues throughout Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland.
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, the festival continues
to maintain high standards of excellence and to fulfill its missions of
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Making literature fun
Connecting readers and authors
Building community
Encouraging cultural diversity and awareness
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exhibitions
Call and Response
Johnson Center, Gallery 123, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Current students and alumni of Mason’s MFA Poetry Program and the School of Art, faculty and
others participate in the festival’s 4th annual “Call and Response” challenge, giving artists and
writers an original work by another contributor to inspire a piece of their own—tied together
by the theme “Parallel Lives.” Now paired together, these pieces are on display from Monday,
September 16, through Friday, September 27: 10 a.m.-4p.m., Monday-Friday, with extended hours
until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 24, and Thursday, September 26. A panel of participants will
discuss the “Call and Response” exhibit in the gallery on Wednesday, September 25, at 3 p.m. Helen
Frederick, professor in the School of Art, and Susan Tichy, professor in the English Department,
partnered to organize the exhibition and program.
Photography: If You Knew Me You Would Care
Center for the Arts Lobby, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Rennio Maifredi’s photographs from the collection If You Knew Me You Would Care—a collaboration
between Maifredi and women’s rights activist and Women for Women International founder
Zainab Salbi—offer portraits of women from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, women who have overcome the adversity of war, loss, and
more to emerge with hope for the future. The exhibition is on view throughout the festival, and
Salbi will offer a gallery talk, with stories behind the portraits, on Friday, September 27, at 11 a.m.
Sponsored by New Century College and the African and African American Studies Program.
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Inner Librare
August 24-October 6, Workhouse Art Center, Vulcan Gallery, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton, VA
An exhibition of artists’ books, book objects, and book experiences across a variety of media—
sculpture, photography, fiber arts, performance and more—features works by Caroline Rutledge
Armijo, Lisa Cirando, Ceci Cole McInturff, Cristina Crockett, Beth Curren, Alexandra Delafkaran,
Helen Frederick, Kristín Guðbrandsdóttir, Sheila McMullin, Mahogany Murray, Nahid Navab,
Alice Quatrochi, Steve Skowrun, Anne Smith, Lynette Spencer, Susan Tichy, and Marcia Weisbrot.
Curated by Ceci Cole McInturff for George Mason University’s School of Visual Art. Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. A gallery reception will be hosted on
Saturday, September 14, 6-9 p.m.
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book sales
|swaps|drives
during the festival
Friends of the City of Fairfax
Regional Library
City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360
North Street, Fairfax, VA
Friends of the Burke Centre
Library Book Sale
Burke Centre Library, 5935 Freds Oak
Road, Burke, VA
Volition Book Swap
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Monday–Friday,
10 a.m.-12 p.m., and 1-5 p.m.
Children’s Book Sale
Sunday, September 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Friends Members Preview Sale
Wednesday, September 25, 3-6 p.m.
(join Burke Centre Friends for
just $5!)
Volition Magazine, the creative voice of
Mason undergraduates, hosts a book
swap. Bring a book you’ve finished and
trade it in for something new!
Fall Book Sale
Friday, September 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Saturday, September 28, 10 a.m.-4
p.m.; and Sunday, September 29, bag
day, 1-3 p.m. ($5 a bag).
General Public Sale
Thursday, September 26, 1-9 p.m.;
Friday, September 27, 10 a.m-6 p.m.;
and Saturday, September 28,
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
before and after the festival
Friends of the Pohick Library
Pohick Regional Library, 6450
Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA
Friends Members Preview Sale
Thursday, September 12,
Friends members preview sale,
3-6 p.m.
General Public Sale
Friday, September 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Saturday, September 14, 10 a.m.-4
p.m.; and Sunday, September 15,
1-4 p.m.
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Friends of the Oakton Library
Oakton Library, 10304 Lynnhaven
Place, Oakton, VA
Thursday, September 19, 1-8 p.m.;
Friday, September 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, September 21,
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Friends of the George Mason
Regional Library Book Sale
George Mason Regional Library, 7001
Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA
Thursday, October 3, 5-9 p.m.;
Friday, October 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.;
and Sunday, October 6, noon-5 p.m.
Friends of the Richard Byrd
Library
Richard Byrd Library, 7250 Commerce
Street, Springfield, VA
Friends Members Preview Sale
Thursday, December 5, 1-3 p.m.
General Public Sale
Thursday, December 5, 3-9 p.m.;
Friday, December 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, December 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
and Sunday, December 8, Bag sale,
12-2 p.m.
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september 21–27
SATURDAY | SEPTEMBER 21
7 p.m.
PREVIEW: Novelist Melanie Benjamin
Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Rd NW,
Leesburg, VA
The bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife
offers perspectives on the triumphs and
tragedies of one of the 20th century’s most
famous couples: Charles and Anne Morrow
Lindbergh. Sponsored by the Loudoun County
Public Library.
SUNDAY, SEPTMEBER 22
SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 22
12:30 p.m.
Falling for the Story Reading
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA
A hallmark of each year’s festival, the annual
Falling for the Story event features the literary
stars of tomorrow—student writers sharing
original works published in Falling for the
Story, Northern Virginia Writing Project’s
yearly anthology of exemplary work from
local elementary, middle, and high schools,
published by Fall for the Book. Sponsored by
the Northern Virginia Writing Project.
– [cont’d] SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 –
12:30 p.m.
History, Mystery and Love: Why
Readers Love Historical Romance
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA
The first of two discussions hosted in
conjunction with the local chapter of
Romance Writers of America, this panel
features Joanna Bourne, author of The Black
Hawk, the latest in a series set in England
and France during the Napoleonic Wars;
Donna Dalton, author most recently of
the Civil War-era novel The Rebel Wife,
Cathy Maxwell, whose recent Chattan
Curse series mixed historical suspense and
the supernatural; and Deanna Raybourn,
whose books include the award-winning
Lady Julia Grey series of Victorian mysteries.
Moderated by Laurin Wittig, a bestselling
author of Scottish historical romances, most
recently, Highlander Betrayed.
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1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Scholastic Book Fair
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA
Browse through a room full of books for
beginning through middle grade readers and
find a story you would love to take home.
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– [cont’d] SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 –
1:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
Family Stories: Make Your Own Instant
Book!
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax,
VA
Master of Fine Arts Fellows Reading
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA
In this interactive workshop, children and parents
work together to make a book of their own to
take home and share with family and friends.
Volunteers will show you how to create the
books and be available to assist as you write and
illustrate your very own book. We’ll provide the
craft supplies, you provide the stories!
Ticking Clocks: How to Create Pressure
Cooker Moments in Fiction
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax,
VA
The second Romance Writers of America
panel of the day takes a thrilling turn with a
discussion of steamy, suspenseful fiction—
featuring Mary Burton, author most recently
of The Seventh Victim; Liz Everly, author of the
culinary romances Saffron Nights and Cravings;
Marliss Melton, author of the Seal Team 12
and Taskforce series; Leah St. James, author of
the novel Surrender to Sanctuary and Maggie
Toussaint, author of Dime If I Know, the latest in
her Cleopatra Jones series. Moderated by Mary
Hart Perry, author of Seducing the Princess, the
most recent of her Victorian thrillers.
2 p.m.
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Novelist Elizabeth Haynes
Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Rd NW,
Leesburg, VA
Haynes’s work as a police intelligence analyst
informs her novels Human Remains, Dark Tide,
and Into the Darkest Corner, named Amazon UK’s
Best Book of 2011. Sponsored by the Loudoun
County Public Library.
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Students in Mason’s nationally ranked MFA
program—including poets Matt Blakley, Amber
Cook, and Sarah Winn; fiction writers Alex
Henderson, Ben Page, and Spencer Seward;
and nonfiction writer Kyle Giacomozzi—share
samples of the work that helped them win
fellowships for their final year of graduate school.
Sponsored by Mason’s Creative Writing Program.
The Secrets of Self-Publishing
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA
Get a detailed look inside the world of
self-publishing—from the mechanics of selfpublishing, to the pros and cons, and to the
challenges of self-promotion and marketing your
book. Panelists include Victor Garlock, author
of Your Genius Within; Cindy Kane, author of
the blog and book Bad Mommy Moments; Sumi
Sexton, author of Pacifiers Anonymous; and Nevin
Martell, author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
and the forthcoming book Freak Show Without a
Tent. Moderated by Meredith Maslich, CEO of
Possibilities Publishing Company.
Children’s Books: Fun for All Ages
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax,
VA
From picture books to young adult adventures,
the market for children’s books spans a wide
spectrum. Gary Karton, author of The Last
Akaway, the first book in the Brody Boodoggle
series, and Courtney Pippin-Mathur, author and
illustrator of Maya Was Grumpy, discuss their
experiences publishing first books in this broad
field.
Sumi Sexton
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YA Authors: Growing Up Fast
One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland
Street, #101, Arlington, VA
Meg Day
MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 23
10:30 a.m.
How do young adult novelists serve young
readers while tackling tough themes? Elisa
Nader’s Escape from Eden follows two teens
fleeing a fundamentalist compound. In Valerie O.
Patterson’s Operation Oleander, a Florida teen’s
humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan take a deadly
turn. And Elizabeth Scott’s Miracle traces the
stark emotional journey of the sole survivor of a
plane crash.
Novelist and Short Story Writer
Stephen Graham Jones
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
4:30 p.m.
Noon
Gazing Grain Chapbook Reading
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA
Cultural Critic Hamid Dabashi
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Gazing Grain Press, a project of Fall for the Book
and alumni of Mason’s MFA program, honors
Meg Day, whose collection We Can’t Read This
won the press’s second annual poetry chapbook
contest, selected by judge Cathy Park Hong.
Sandy Longhorn, runner-up in the contest and
author of Blood Almanac, will share selections
from her work as well. This reading and reception
celebrate inclusive feminist poetry and promote
socially conscious work in today’s literary
community. Sponsored by Gazing Grain Press.
The internationally renowned cultural
critic talks about his book, The World of
Persian Literary Humanism, an exploration
of Persian literature’s 1,400 year struggle
with the question of what it means to be
human. Sponsored by the Ali Vural Ak
Center for Global Islamic Studies.
6:30 p.m.
Fairfax Prize Presentation: Humorist Dave Barry
Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and humorist
Dave Barry receives Fall for the Book’s Fairfax Prize, honoring
outstanding literary achievement and presented by the Fairfax
Library Foundation. Barry’s newspaper columns for the
Miami Herald appeared in more than 500 newspapers and
earned him the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary “for his
consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting
fresh insights into serious concerns.” Additionally, he has written
more than 30 books, including the novels Big Trouble, Lunatics,
Tricky Business and, most recently, Insane City. Sponsored by the
Fairfax Library Foundation.
The award-winning author of twelve
novels and four story collections discusses
his latest works, the novels Flushboy—the
story of a sixteen-year-old working a shift
at the window of his father’s drive-through
urinal—and Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth.
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1:30 p.m.
City Council Meeting, A Drama
Research Building I, Room 163
Artist and actor Aaron Landsman
discusses his current project, which recently
premiered in Houston, Tempe, and New
York, and which involves collaborations
with church choirs, engineers, homeless
young people, a tourism board, high school
students, and local government officials.
Dave Barry
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– [cont’d] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 –
1:30 p.m.
Social Commentator Paul Loeb
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Loeb—called “a national treasure” by the
late Susan Sontag—speaks about the role
of civic engagement in conjunction with his
newly updated book Soul of a Citizen: Living
With Conviction in a Cynical Time, winner of the
Nautilus Award for best social change book.
3 p.m.
WWII Historians Robert Dorr and
Cate Lineberry
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Dorr, whose books cover international affairs,
military issues, and the Vietnam War, discusses
his latest work, Mission to Tokyo: The American
Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan,
about B-29 Superfortresses risking anti-aircraft
fire in order to drop bombs more accurately
onto their Japanese targets. Lineberry shares
the exciting story of a crash landing in Nazioccupied Albania and the months-long struggle
for survival at the heart of her first book, The
Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses
and Medics Behind Nazi Lines. Sponsored by Gale
Cengage Learning.
4:30 p.m.
Poet Karen Anderson
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Karen Anderson
Anderson, whose work has appeared in Best
American Poetry 2012, reads from her debut
volume Punish Honey, described by poet Alice
Fulton as “an unstinting, in fact sumptuous,
linguistic feast.” Sponsored by So To Speak.
Novelists Anton DiSclafani and
George Bishop Jr.
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D
DiSclafani discusses her debut novel, The
Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, which has
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been described by The Washington Post as a
“20th-century gothic tale that reads like a lusty
cousin of Bronte’s classic [Jane Eyre].” Bishop,
hailed by author Pat Conroy as “a novelist to
keep your eye on,” discusses his second novel,
The Night of the Comet, a coming of age tale that
takes place in a small town in the 1970s.
6 p.m.
City Council Meeting Workshop
Johnson Center, Meeting Room A
George Bishop, Jr.
Artist and actor Aaron Landsman presents
a workshop on City Council Meeting, which
recently premiered in Houston, Tempe, and New
York, and involves collaborations with church
choirs, engineers, homeless young people, a
tourism board, high school students, and local
government officials.
Novelist Bob Shacochis
Johnson Center, Meeting Room C
Renowned through four award-winning books
for his gritty and revelatory visions of the
Caribbean, Shacochis returns to occupied
Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before
sweeping across time and continents to unravel
tangled knots of romance, espionage, and
vengeance—in the process building a complex
and disturbing story about the coming of age of
America in a pre-9/11 world.
After the M.F.A.
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D
George Mason M.F.A. alumni Sheila McMullin,
Alison Strub, Ben Wilkins, and Lauren Stahl
discuss ways to continue and expand on poetry
and nonfiction thesis work completed during
their M.F.A. after graduation. Panelists go beyond
a typical procedure of edits and revisions to
discuss the birth of new projects spurred from
thesis writing to create various collaborative
forms of live performance, comics, visual art, and
tabletop textiles.
Sheila McMullin
– [cont’d] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 –
7 p.m.
Noon
Historian Juanita Patience Moss
Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic
Blenheim, 3610 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA
Living to Tell About It: Storytellers Panel
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
For Forgotten Black Soldiers in White Regiments
During The Civil War, Moss spent ten years
collecting the names of nearly two thousand black
soldiers whose participation in the war had been
forgotten. Sponsored by the Civil War Interpretive
Center at Historic Blenheim.
7:30 p.m.
Political Activist Ralph Nader
Harris Theatre
Nader’s latest book, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold
Ideas for our American Future, offers suggestions
for how to rescue America from corruption,
complacency, and corporate domination.
For nearly fifty years, Nader has advocated
for consumer protection, environmentalism,
humanitarianism, and democratic leadership.
Sponsored by the Fairfax Library Foundation.
Poets Karen An-hwei Lee and
G.C. Waldrep
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D
Karen An-hwei Lee
Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy, Ardor, and In
Medias Res, winner of the Norma Farber First
Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Among Waldrep’s four full-length collections are
Archicembalo, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Your
Father on the Train of Ghosts, a lyric collaboration
with John Gallaher. Sponsored by Phoebe.
TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 24
10:30 a.m.
Novelist Alivia Tagliaferri
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Tagliaferri reads from her novel Beyond the
Wall, the story of a Vietnam veteran and the
connection he makes with a young Iraq war
veteran decades later. Sponsored by Mason’s Office
of Military Services.
Better Said Than Done storytellers David Supley
Foxworth, Jessica Robinson, Ellouise Schoettler,
and Anna Marie Trester talk about the art of
performing true, personal stories. Moderated by
Shawn Westfall. Don’t miss the storytelling troupe
that was named “Best Performing Arts Company”
in the state by Virginia Living Magazine—and see
them in action on Thursday night, 7 p.m., at the
Auld Shebeen in downtown Fairfax!
Historian Stephen Mansfield
Research Building I, Room 163
The New York Times bestselling author
discusses his latest book, Killing Jesus, which
examines the Biblical and historical context
of the trial and execution of Jesus Christ.
1:30 p.m.
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Honoring Ann Petry
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Keith Clark, Mason professor of English and
African American Studies, analyzes the works
of the mid-twentieth century African American
author in The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry, while
Elisabeth Petry, Ann’s daughter, shares a more
personal portrait of her multifaceted mother in
At Home Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry.
Sponsored by African and African American Studies.
Children’s Book Author Cheryl Aubin
and Illustrator Sheila Harrington
Research Building I, Room 163
Aubin and Harrington present The Survivor Tree:
Inspired by a True Story, a picture book about the
improbable survival of a Callery Pear Tree that,
like so many, was badly injured when the Twin
Towers collapsed on 9/11. All profits from the
sale of this book benefit charities.
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– [cont’d] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 –
3 p.m.
6 p.m.
Folklorist Cristina Bacchilega
The Hub, Rooms 3, 4, 5
Poet Robyn Schiff
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
The accomplished fairy-tale scholar reads
from her newest book, Fairy Tales Transformed?
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics
of Wonder, which asks how fairy tales have been
changed by and for the twenty-first century.
Schiff, whose recent work has appeared in The
New Yorker and Poetry, reads from Revolver, her
second collection, praised by Publishers Weekly
for its “relentless attention to language, history
and the mystery of the human heart.”
Sportswriter Elisa Gaudet
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Novelists Bonnie Jo Campbell and
Mary Kay Zuravleff
Research Building 1, Room 163
Gaudet, who has worked for both the PGA
Tour and Tour de las Americas, shares tales
about the social side of golf from her book, Two
Good Rounds: 19th Hole Stories from the World’s
Greatest Golfers.
4 p.m.
Honest Tea Presentation
Johnson Center Cinema
Seth Goldman—the company’s co-founder,
president, and CEO—explains how Honest
Tea fulfills its mission “to create and promote
great-tasting, truly healthy, organic beverages”
while also being socially responsible. The story
of the company’s founding is told in Goldman’s
innovative graphic memoir, Mission in a Bottle:
The Honest Guide to Doing Business Differently –
and Succeeding. Sponsored by Mason’s Auxiliary
Enterprises Green.
4:30 p.m.
Novelist and Short Fiction Writers
Nathan Leslie and Jen Michalski
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
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Leslie, author of several short fiction collections,
reads from his first novel, The Tall Tale of Tommy
Twice—a twist on the American orphan fable—
which has been described as “a laugh-riot, page
after page of yuks, high-minded absurdity, and
Ionesco-worthy wackiness” by author Lee K.
Abbott. Michalski, author of the novella collection
Could You Be With Her Now, reads from her debut
novel, The Tide King, winner of the 2012 Big
Moose Prize.
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Robyn Schiff
Join a craft talk and reading with two rising
stars in contemporary fiction. Campbell, whose
previous books include American Salvage, a
National Book Award and National Book
Critics Circle Award finalist, discusses her
latest novel, Once Upon A River, which the
Washington Post called “the rough-hewn sister
of The Leatherstocking Tales, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, and Walden.” Zuravleff, author
of the award-winning novels The Frequency of
Souls and The Bowl Is Already Broken, debuts her
new book, Man Alive!, about a psychiatrist who
survives a lightning strike and now only wants to
barbecue—throwing his family and his practice
into disarray.
7 p.m.
Three Views of Medusa’s Daughter
Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road,
Ashburn, VA
Award-winning Young Adult author Jonathon
Scott Fuqua has written his latest work,
Medusa’s Daughter—the story of a fifteenyear-old girl raised in a traveling sideshow—as
a graphic novel, graphic novella, and novel. He
appears with acclaimed photographer and
illustrator Steven Parke, who illustrated both the
graphic formats. Sponsored by Loudoun County
Public Library.
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
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7 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Literary Activist, Poet, and Memoirist
E. Ethelbert Miller
Sherwood Regional Library, 2501 Sherwood Hall
Lane, Alexandria, VA
Folklorist Cristina Bacchilega
The Hub, Rooms 3, 4, 5
The author of several collections of poetry talks
about his memoir, Fathering Words: The Making of
an African American Writer, which was selected
by the D.C. Public Library for its DC WE READ,
one book, one city program in 2003 and will be
released this year as an e-book by Black Classic
Press. Sponsored by the Harambee Book Club.
E. Ethelbert Miller
Historian Joseph Stahl
Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center, 10209 Main
Street, Fairfax, VA
Stahl, whose articles have appeared in The
Gettysburg Magazine and Civil War Historian,
looks at the early history of the iconic “dog tags”
with his book Identification Discs of Union Soldiers
in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide
and Illustrated History. Sponsored by the Fairfax
Museum and Visitor Center.
Poet Derrick Weston Brown
Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun
Campus, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Hwy, Sterling, VA
The author of Wisdom Teeth discusses the
craft of poetry and shares selections from his
debut collection. Sponsored by Northern Virginia
Community College, Loudoun.
7:30 p.m.
Political Commentators Kojo Nnamdi
and Mark Plotkin
Harris Theatre
The host of WHUT-TV’s Evening Exchange and
the weekday public affairs program The Kojo
Nnamdi Show discusses politics with Plotkin, Fox
5’s Political Analyst in Washington, D.C. Sponsored
by the Fairfax County Public Library.
The accomplished fairy-tale scholar discusses her
book Legendary Hawaii and the Politics of Place,
which explores the disconnect between native
Hawaiians and how their stories are represented
by the tourism industry.
8 p.m.
Poetry Slam
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Slammers Lauren Parker, Rashid White, and
Saidu Tejan-Thomas perform original work that
will get you out of your seat!
WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 25
10:30 a.m.
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Educator Paul Gorski
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
The author and Mason educator discusses
his recent book Reaching and Teaching
Students in Poverty and how teachers
can work toward a better education for
students from all economic backgrounds.
Noon
Historical Fiction Reading
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Two area novelists discuss their latest works
and the genre as a whole. Thomas Mallon’s
latest book, Watergate: A Novel, has been
hailed by The Washington Times as “fiction of a
remarkably high order,” and Virginia Pye’s debut
novel, River of Dust—the story of an American
missionary couple in early 20th century China
whose young child is kidnapped by Mongolian
bandits—was chosen as an Indie Next Pick by
the Independent Booksellers Association.
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Noon
2 p.m.
Historian Dean King
Research Building I, Room 163
Poet Judith Harris
Barnes & Noble bookstore, 2nd Floor, CA Bldg.,
Northern Virginia Community College -Annandale,
8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA
One of the most famous family feuds in U.S.
history is examined in Dean King’s latest book,
The Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The True
Story. King’s book goes back to the days when
the two families lived side by side with few
problems and traces how their famous feud
developed during the Civil War. Sponsored by
Gale Cengage Learning.
1 p.m.
Biographer and Spiritual Writer
Stephen Mansfield
Richard Byrd Library, 7250 Commerce Street,
Springfield, VA
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2:15 p.m.
Historian Peter Janney
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA
The bestselling author of The Faith of George W.
Bush, The Faith of Barack Obama, and Killing Jesus
discusses his book, Lincoln’s Battle with God: A
President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant
for America. Sponsored by the Richard Byrd Friends.
The son of a senior career CIA official reads and
discusses his first book, Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA
Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot
Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace, winner of
the Hollywood Book Festival Award for General
Nonfiction 2012. Sponsored by Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute.
1:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
Novelist Elizabeth Huergo
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Fiction and Electronic Publishing
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
The Mason professor of Women and Gender
Studies reads from and discusses her debut
novel, The Death of Fidel Perez, a story that
explores the world of Havana, Cuba, at the
beginning of the 21st century.
Ellen Herbert, award-winning author of the
short story collection Falling Women and Other
Stories, and Mike Maggio, whose debut novel The
Valley of Granite and Steel was recently released
as an e-book by the writedeal.org, read from
their work and talk about the e-side of publishing
fiction.
Professor Anthony Hoefer
Research Building I, Room 163
Elizabeth Huergo
Harris follows up her books The Bad Secret and
Atonement with a third collection of poetry, Night
Garden, a series of poems driven by memories
and a sense of mortality. Sponsored by The
Northern Virginia Review.
The director of Mason’s University Scholars
Program discusses his new book Apocalypse
South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the
Regional Imaginary. Engaging concerns of religion,
race, sexuality, and community in fiction from the
1930s to the present, Hoefer examines works by
four southern writers: William Faulkner, Richard
Wright, Randall Kenan, and Dorothy Allison.
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Call and Response Gallery Talk
Johnson Center, Gallery 123
Participants in the festival’s annual exhibition
of paired works—poems and stories inspired
by art, and vice versa—discuss their individual
contributions as well as the overall process of
creation and collaboration. The exhibition is on
view throughout the festival in this same space.
Judith Harris
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4 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Psychologist Shane Lopez
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
The Book Was Better, A Presentation
Alden Theatre, 1234 Ingleside Avenue,
McLean, VA
Lopez, a Gallup Senior Scientist and the world’s
leading authority on the psychology of hope,
discusses his latest book, Making Hope Happen:
Create the Future You Want for Yourself and
Others, the result of cutting-edge research and
inspiring true stories. Sponsored by the Center for
Consciousness and Transformation.
4:30 p.m.
Novelists Courtney Brkic and
Marjan Kamali
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Award-winning author and Mason professor
Brkic reads from her novel, The First Rule of
Swimming, which follows the acclaimed shortfiction collection Stillness: And Other Stories, a
2003 New York Times “Notable Book,” and the
memoir The Stone Fields. Kamali reads from
Together Tea, her debut novel about family, love,
and matchmaking, a Boston Globe Reading
Selection, a Target Emerging Author Selection,
and an NPR WBUR Good Read Pick.
Poet and Critic William Logan
Johnson Center, Meeting Room A
Courtney Brkic
Both a gifted poet and a revered critic, Logan
has received awards including the Aiken
Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, the
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
and the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry
Criticism. He will discuss the art of reviewing
and read from his latest poetry collection,
Madame X, praised by Prairie Schooner for its
richness of language, boldness of vision, and
vivid evocations of times and places ranging
from “the lost floral paradise of the Florida
outlands, the steamy Gatsby summers of a Long
Island childhood, the frozen stones of a colonial
burying ground.”
Which was better, the book or the movie? Join a
panel of librarians and teens to talk about your
favorite books and graphic novels that were
made into movies and TV shows. Dress up like
your favorite character for a chance at winning
a door prize. Note: This event is for teens.
Cosponsored by the Fairfax County Public Library,
the McLean Community Center, and Fall for the
Book.
6 p.m.
Mystery Writer Edith McClintock
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D
McClintock reads and discusses her debut
novel, Monkey Love and Murder, the adventure
of a Peace Corps veteran who joins a monkey
research project in the South American
rainforest after a friend’s death and encounters
murder and romance.
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Novelist Benjamin Percy
Johnson Center Cinema
Percy—whose debut novel, The Wilding, won
the Society of Midland Authors Award for
Fiction—reads from his second novel, Red
Moon, a psychological thriller about a werewolf
sub-culture listed by Publisher’s Weekly as one of
2013’s most anticipated books.
Benjamin Percy
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6 p.m.
7 p.m.
Busboys & Poets Award Presentation:
Sonia Sanchez
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Novelist Michael Sullivan
One More Page Books, 2200 N
Westmoreland Street, Arlington, VA
Sonia Sanchez is the winner of this year’s
Busboys and Poets Award, presented to
a contemporary poet in conjunction with
Busboys and Poets, a restaurant, bookstore,
fair trade market, and gathering place
based in Washington, DC; the award pays
tribute to Langston Hughes, who worked
as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington, D.C., during the 1920s before
he gained recognition for his writing. Sanchez
is the author of more than 16 books,
ranging from her debut poetry collection,
1969’s Homecoming, to her latest collection,
2010’s Morning Haiku, and including the
American Book Award winner Homegirls and
Handgrenades. Sponsored by Busboys and Poets.
Sullivan’s debut series, The Riyria Revelations,
introduced the world to his rogues for hire
Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater.
His new series, The Riyria Chronicles, steps
back to explore how these two very
different men first met, and how their
bonds of friendship grew despite their
differences.
7 p.m
Mystery Writer Charles Todd
Cascades Library, 21030 Whitfield Place,
Potomac Falls, VA
The New York Times bestselling authors—
a writing team of Charles and his mother,
Caroline—share the latest book in the Inspector
Ian Rutledge mystery series, Proof of Guilt, in
which an unidentified body appears to have been
rundown by a car. Sponsored by the Loudoun County
Public Library.
Caroline & Charles Todd
Executive Coach Ian Cook
Pohick Regional Library, 6450 Sydenstricker Road,
Burke, VA
The author of Would They Call You Their Best Boss
Ever? Practical Tips and Insights for the Successful
Manager offers tips and techniques to help mid-toexecutive level managers lead effectively at the
“micro” level, in that interpersonal space between
themselves and the individual employee, to
produce higher performance for all. Sponsored by
the Friends of the Pohick Library.
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7:30 p.m.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
Presentation: Cheryl Strayed
Concert Hall, Center for the Arts
Cheryl Strayed will receive this year’s Mary Roberts
Rinehart Award, given each year to a woman writer
specializing in nonfiction; the award commemorates the life
and work of Rinehart, who for 45 years prior to her death in
1958 was one of America’s most popular writers. Strayed’s
bestselling memoir Wild—a survival story chronicling grief
and loss, sex and drugs, and a 1,000-mile journey crosscountry to find herself—was the inaugural selection for
Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club 2.0. Strayed is also the author
of Tiny Beautiful Things and of the novel Torch. Sponsored by
the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation and George Mason
University Libraries.
THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 26
10:30 a.m.
Historian M.J. O’Brien
Johnson Center Cinema
The author of We Shall Not Be Moved: The
Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement
It Inspired looks back on the Civil Rights Era
and examines its continuing legacy in today’s
society. Sponsored by New Century College.
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Lisa Breglia
Noon
3 p.m.
Cultural Anthropologist Lisa Breglia
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Novelist Sarah Pekkanen
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Breglia, the director of Mason’s Global Affairs
Program and Global Interdisciplinary Programs,
talks about her new book Living With Oil:
Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s
Gulf Coast, an ethnographic investigation of
the effects of Mexico’s intensive offshore oil
industry on Gulf coast communities. Sponsored
by Gale Cengage Learning.
The bestselling author of The Opposite of Me—
“a rising star in women’s fiction,” according to
Library Journal—returns with a new novel, The
Best of Us.
12:30 p.m.
Biographer Marie Arana
The Ernst Cultural Center Building, 2nd Fl. Forum,
Northern Virginia Community College –Annandale,
8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA.
The award-winning novelist, memoirist,
and critic (a former editor-in-chief of the
Washington Post Book World) discusses her latest
book, Bolívar: American Liberator, a biography
of Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan military and
political leader who fought for Latin America’s
independence from Spain. Sponsored by the
Northern Virginia Community College Lyceum
Fund. and the Division of Languages and
Literature.
1:30 p.m.
African American Families Today
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Angela J. Hattery, director of Mason’s Women
and Gender Studies Program, and Earl Smith,
director of the Wake Forest University
American Ethnic Studies Program, discuss their
new book African American Families Today: Myths
and Realities. Sponsored by African and African
American Studies.
Sociologist Emily W. Kane
Research Building I, Room 163
A professor of sociology at Bates College with
a focus on gender, family, and childhood issues
shares the findings from her latest book, The
Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising
Boys and Girls— exploring the gender lessons
encoded in the selection of toys, clothes, and
activities as well as styles of play and emotional
expression. Sponsored by Women & Gender
Studies.
4 p.m.
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YA Author Alethea Kontis
Burke Centre Library, 5935 Freds Oak Road,
Burke, VA
The celebrated children’s and young adult
author discusses the YA fairy tale Enchanted,
named a Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2012, and
previews Hero, the hotly anticipated second
book in the Woodcutter Series. Sponsored by
the Burke Centre Library Friends.
4:30 p.m.
Historian Scott W. Berg
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Mason professor Scott Berg discusses the 1862
battle between the U.S. settlers and troops and
Little Crow’s Dakota warriors in his latest book,
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning
of the Frontier’s End. Sponsored by Gale Cengage
Learning.
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4:30 p.m..
International Fiction in Perspective
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Simon Fruelund—a Danish writer whose most
recent work, Milk & Other Stories, has been
described by Publisher’s Weekly as a “beautiful
book [that] has a quietness that recalls the stark
Danish countryside”—talks about the state of
European literature with novelist, short story
writer, and philosopher Jean-Marie Blas de
Roblès, whose third novel, Where Tigers Are at
Home, won France’s 2008 Prix Medicis. Alan
Cheuse, acclaimed author and National Public
Radio critic, moderates the discussion.
Out of Books: Poet and Artist Alec Finlay
Research Building I, Room 163
Finlay, famed for “poetic mappings” such as The
Road North, a word-map of Scotland, discusses
and shares selections from his work, which
focuses on the overlapping of old and new
technologies and includes the recent collections
Be My Reader, today today today, and A Company
of Mountains.
5 p.m.
Poet Sonia Sanchez
Black Box Theatre, Arts & Science Building, Northern
Virginia Community College, 15200 Neabsco Mills
Rd, Woodbridge, VA
Alec Finlay
After accepting this year’s Busboys and Poets
Award on Wednesday night at George Mason
University, the acclaimed poet and author most
recently of Morning Haiku offers an encore
reading of her work in Woodbridge. Sponsored by
Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge.
6 p.m.
Short Story Writers Scott Garson and
Amber Sparks
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Scott Garson, the editor of Wigleaf and author
of the collections Is That You, John Wayne? and
American Gymnopedies, and Amber Sparks,
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author of the collection May We Shed These
Human Bodies, share selections from their work
and discuss the art of and market for the short
story today.
What’s Cooking? Lots!
Hylton Performing Arts Center, George Mason
University’s Prince William Campus, 10960 George
Mason Circle, Manassas, VA
Fall for the Book welcomes its largest ever
line-up of cookbook authors and food writers
for a 6 p.m. panel discussion and 7 p.m. cooking
demonstrations and discussions. Participants
include Norman Davis, co-owner of The Sweet
Life, a custom cakery in Annandale, VA; Todd
Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray, co-owners of
the DC restaurant Equinox and authors of The
New Jewish Table: Modern Seasonal Recipes for
Traditional Dishes; Krista Gallagher and Kris
Schoels, editors of A Taste of Virginia Tech; Dave
Lefeve of Market Salamander in Middleburg,
VA, and his wife, novelist Claudia Lefeve, whose
YA novels Parallel and Paradox incorporate her
husband’s recipes; Forrest Pritchard, author of
the memoir Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’
Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm;
Michael Stein, staff writer for the blog DCBeer.
com; Joe Yonan, Washington Post Food and
Travel editor and author most recently of Eat
Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook;
and Peter and Laura Zeranski, authors of
Polish Classic Cooking and Polish Classic Desserts.
Sponsored by Write by the Rails, the Prince William
Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, and by
Potomac Local News.
7 p.m.
Fall for It: An Evening of Storytelling
The Auld Shebeen, 3971 Chain Bridge Road,
Fairfax, VA
Join Better Said Than Done storytellers David
Supley Foxworth, Mike Kane, Len Kruger,
Meredith Maslich, Chuck Na, Jessica Robinson,
and Ellouise Schoettler for a night of true,
personal storytelling.
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Sujata Massey
7 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Novelists A.X. Ahmad and
Sujata Massey
One More Page Books, 2200 N Westmoreland
Street, Arlington, VA
Sportswriting: Baseball, Basketball, and
Historical Perspectives
George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River
Turnpike, Annandale, VA
Book maven Bethanne Patrick moderates
a discussion with A.X. Ahmad, author of the
suspense novel The Caretaker, the first of
a trilogy featuring ex-Indian Army Captain
Ranjit Singh, and Sujata Massey, the Agatha
and Macavity Award-winning author of the
Rei Shimura mystery series and author most
recently of The Sleeping Dictionary, a historical
novel charting a young girl’s struggle for both
her country’s and her own independence in an
India under imperial rule.
Cultural historian Brett L. Abrams and Mason
communications doctoral student Raphael
Mazzone, co-authors of The Bullets, The Wizards
and Washington DC Basketball, join long-time
journalist Tom Dunkel, author of Color Blind: The
Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball’s Color Line,
talk about their books and the art and craft of
sportswriting in general. Sponsored by the Friends
of the George Mason Regional Library.
Memoirist Josh Hanagarne
Gum Spring Library, 24600 Millstream Drive, Stone
Ridge, VA
“Get Stronger, Get Smarter, Live Better…
Every Day.” So urges the popular blogger and
librarian at the Salt Lake City Public Library, who
will discusses his memoir The World’s Strongest
Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength,
and the Power of Family—praised as “funny and
fearless” by The New Yorker. Sponsored by the
Loudoun County Public Library.
7:30 p.m.
MFA Alumni Reading
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Four alumni of George Mason’s nationally
ranked MFA Program in Creative Writing share
selections from their recently published works.
Participants include Sarah Colona, author of
the poetry collection Hibernaculum; Joe Hall,
author of the collection The Devotional Poems;
Tara Laskowski, author of the story collection
Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons; and
Elizabeth Winder, author of the biographical
portrait Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New
York, Summer 1953.
FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 27
10:30 a.m.
YA Novelist Hannah Barnaby
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
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Barnaby reads from her debut novel, The Wonder
Show, the story of an orphan girl in the strange
world of carnival side shows.
11 a.m.
Humanitarian Zainab Salbi
Concert Hall Lobby, Center for the Arts
Using a blend of interviews and photographs,
the world-renowned activist’s If You Knew Me You
Would Care tells the powerful stories of women
who have survived wars, violence, and poverty.
Photographs by Salbi’s collaborator on the book,
photographer Rennio Maifredi, are on display in
the Concert Hall Lobby throughout the festival.
Sponsored by New Century College and The African
and African American Studies Program.
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Noon
4:30 p.m.
Historian Daniel Stashower
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Novelist Manil Suri
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Daniel Stashower, author of The Hour of Peril:
The Secret Plot to Murder Abraham Lincoln Before
the Civil War, explores how the famed Allan
Pinkerton joined forces with the nation’s first
female detective to foil an assassination attempt
on the president in 1861. Sponsored by Gale
Cengage Learning.
The award-winning author of the bestsellers The
Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva reads from
his latest work, The City of Devi, a novel about
the pursuit of love amidst the threat of nuclear
annihilation.
1 p.m.
Historian Ronald Spector
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA
The first civilian to become Director of Naval
History and the head of the Naval Historical
Center talks about his fifth book, In the Ruins of
Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for
Postwar Asia. Sponsored by Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute.
1:30 p.m.
Poet Eduardo Corral
Sandy Spring Bank Tent
Corral, who has received the Whiting Writers’
Award and a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship, will read from his first book of poems,
Slow Lightning, selected as the 2011 winner of
the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Sponsored by Split This Rock.
3 p.m.
Patricia O’Hare
GemmaMedia Open Door
Literacy Series
Johnson Center, Meeting Room A
Mason professor and acclaimed writer of fiction
and non-fiction Kyoko Mori and award-winning
writer and North American Editor of the Open
Door Literacy Series Brian Bouldrey read and
discuss their books for new readers, Barn Cat
and The Sorrow of the Elves, with GemmaMedia
publisher Patricia O’Hare.
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6 p.m.
Mystery Writers of America Panel
Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts
Manil Suri
Four area mystery writers discuss their newest
books and the mystery genre. Ellen Crosby,
author of mystery series set in the Virginia wine
country, debuts Multiple Exposure, the first
book in a new series featuring photojournalist
Sophie Medina. Allison Leotta’s latest novel,
Speak of the Devil, continues to draw on her
experiences as a former federal prosecutor
specializing in sex crimes. Brad Parks, the only
mystery author ever to have won the Shamus,
Nero and Lefty Awards, is the author of four
Carter Ross mysteries, most recently The Good
Cop. And David O. Stewart, author of several
award-winning histories and president of the
Washington Independent Review of Books, presents
his debut novel, The Lincoln Deception, exploring
the John Wilkes Booth conspiracy. Sponsored by
the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Mystery Writers of
Allison Leotta
America and by Mason Libraries.
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mason Hall, D-003
The author of Purple Hibiscus and Half a Yellow
Sun returns with her latest novel, Americanah.
“Having spent a good chunk of time living in
America as an adult and being a hawkeyed
observer of manners and distinctions in class,
Adichie is uniquely positioned to compare racial
hierarchies in the United States to social striving
in her native Nigeria,” wrote the Washington Post
in its review of the book. “She does so in this
new work with a ruthless honesty about the ugly
and beautiful sides of both nations.” Sponsored by
The African and African American Studies Program.
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7:30 p.m.
Mason Award Presentation:
David Baldacci
Concert Hall, Center for the Arts
David Baldacci is the winner of this year’s
Mason Award, celebrating authors who
have made an extraordinary contribution
to connecting literature to the wide reading
public. Baldacci’s novels—ranging from his
debut, Absolute Power (the basis for the
acclaimed Clint Eastwood film), to his latest
release, The Hit—have sold more than
110 million copies worldwide, with sales
in more than 80 countries and in more
than 45 languages. Additionally, Baldacci has
spearheaded two organization devoted
to spreading a love of reading. He and his
wife founded the Wish You Well Foundation
to support adult and family literacy in the
United States; the organization fosters and
promotes the development and expansion
of literacy and educational programs. And he
also established the innovative Feeding Body
& Mind program in partnership with Feeding
America, the largest domestic hunger-relief
organization in the U.S., to donate books to
families in need. Sponsored by Mid Atlantic
Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and
George Mason University Libraries.
8 p.m.
Old Firestation #3 Poetry Reading
Old Firestation #3, 3988 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
The sixth consecutive Old Firestation #3
reading will feature poets of distinction from the
surrounding region: Carmen Calatayud, author of
In the Company of Spirits, runner-up for the Walt
Whitman Award by the Academy of American
Poets; Donna Lewis Cowan, author of Between
Gods, which was selected as a notable first book
by Beltway Poetry Quarterly; Shara Lessley, author
of Two-Headed Nightingale; and Joseph Ross,
author of Gospel of Dust and Meeting Bone Man.
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David Baldacci
Novelists Jon Pineda and Sarah Pleydell
The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, MD
Pineda, whose memoir Sleep in Me was a Barnes
& Noble Discover Great New Writers selection,
discusses his first novel, Apology, winner of the
2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Pleydell’s
first novel, Cologne—set in 1960’s post-war Britain
and based on her childhood—has been described
by The Washington Post as “a crisply and elegantly
written short book, with memorable characters,
that takes on big personal and historical themes.”
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Festival At-A-Glance
by location
Fall for the Book offers events at various locations throughout Northern Virginia and Maryland — bringing great writers
from across the nation and around the world to your backyard!
All events below take place away from the festival’s base at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Days of the week
correspond to the festival dates: Sunday, September 22—Friday, September 27, with one preview event on Saturday,
September 21. Check out the full listing in this program for complete information.
VIRGINIA
Alexandria
Sherwood Regional Library — Literary
Activist, Poet, and Memoirist E. Ethelbert
Miller, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Annandale
George Mason Regional Library —
Sportswriting panel with Brett L. Abrams,
Raphael Mazzone, and Tom Dunkel,
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Northern Virginia Community College
• Poet Judith Harris, Wednesday, 2 p.m.
• Biographer Marie Arana, Thursday,
12:30 p.m.
Arlington
One More Page Books
• YA Authors Elisa Nader, Valerie O.
Patterson and Elizabeth Scott, Sunday,
4 p.m.
• Novelist Michael Sullivan, Wednesday,
7 p.m.
• Novelists A.X. Ahmad and Sujata
Massey with Bethanne Patrick,
Thursday, 7 p.m.
Ashburn
Ashburn Library — YA author Jonathon
Scott Fuqua and photographer and
illustrator Steven Parke, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Burke
Burke Centre Library — Children’s Author
Alethea Kontis, Thursday, 4 p.m.
Pohick Regional Library — Executive
Coach Ian Cook, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
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Fairfax
The Auld Shebeen — Storytelling with
Better Said Than Done, Thursday, 7 p.m.
Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic
Blenheim — Historian Juanita Patience
Moss, Monday, 7 p.m.
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Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center —
Historian Joseph Stahl, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
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The Old Firestation 3 — Poets Carmen
Calatayud, Donna Lewis Cowan, Shara
Lessley, and Joseph Ross, Friday 8 p.m.
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
• Historian Peter Janney, Wednesday,
2:15 p.m.
• Historian Ronald Spector, Friday, 1 p.m.
Sherwood Center
• Falling for the Story Reading, Sunday,
12:30 p.m.
• Romance novelists Joanna Bourne,
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Donna Dalton, Cathy Maxwell, Deanna
Raybourn, and Laurin Wittig, Sunday,
12:30 p.m.
Family Stories: Make Your Own Instant
Book, Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
Romance novelists Mary Burton, Liz
Everly, Marliss Melton, Leah St. James,
Maggie Toussaint, and Mary Hart Perry,
Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
Master of Fine Arts Fellows Reading
with poets Matt Blakley, Amber Cook,
and Sarah Winn, fiction writers Alex
Henderson, Ben Page, and Spencer
Seward, and nonfiction writer Kyle
Giacomozzi, Sunday, 3 p.m.
Self-publishing panel with Victor
Garlock, Cindy Kane, Sumi Sexton,
Nevin Martell, and Meredith Maslich,
Sunday, 3 p.m.
Children’s book authors Gary Karton
and Courtney Pippin-Mathur, Sunday,
3 p.m.
Poets Meg Day and Sandy Longhorn,
Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
Fairfax Prize Presentation: Humorist
Dave Barry, Sunday, 6:30 p.m.
Leesburg
Rust Library
• Novelist Melanie Benjamin, Saturday,
Sept. 21, 7 p.m.
• Novelist Elizabeth Haynes,
Sunday, 2 p.m.
Lorton
Workhouse Art Center — Inner Librare
exhibition, on view August 24October 6
Manassas
Hylton Performing Arts Center —
Cooking and food panel with Norman
Davis, Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff
Gray, Krista Gallagher and Kris Schoels,
Dave and Claudia Lefeve, Forrest
Pritchard, Michael Stein, Joe Yonan, and
Peter and Laura Zeranski, Thursday,
6 p.m.
McLean
Alden Theatre — The Book Was Better
Presentation, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
Stone Ridge
Gum Spring Library — Memoirist
Josh Hanagarne, Thursday, 7 p.m.
Potomac Falls
Cascades Library — Mystery Writer
Charles Todd, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Woodbridge
Northern Virginia Community College —
Poet Sonia Sanchez, Thursday, 5 p.m.
Springfield
Richard Byrd Library — Biographer and
Spiritual Writer Stephen Mansfield,
Wednesday, 1 p.m.
Sterling
Northern Virginia Community College —
Poet Derrick Weston Brown, Tuesday,
7 p.m.
MARYLAND
Bethesda
The Writer’s Center — Novelists
Jon Pineda and Sarah Pleydell, Friday,
7:30 p.m.
Festival At-A-Glance
by genre and topic
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Here you’ll find Fall for the Book’s many events organized by category for greater ease in planning. Find your favorite genre
or subject, then find out who will be at this year’s Fall for the Book to speak on that topic or represent that genre. Complete
information is listed in the full calendar. Except for one preview event on Saturday, September 21, all events below take place
Sunday-Friday, September 22-27.
AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Sunday — Fairfax Prize Presentation to Dave Barry
Wednesday – Busboys and Poets Award Presentation
to Sonia Sanchez and Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
presentation to Cheryl Strayed
Friday — Mason Award Presentation to David Baldacci
FICTION
Saturday — Melanie Benjamin, The Aviator’s Wife
(preview event)
Sunday — Mason MFA Fellows Reading with Alex
Henderson, Ben Page, and Spencer Seward; Joanna
Bourne, The Black Hawk; Mary Burton, The Seventh
Victim; Donna Dalton, The Rebel Wife; Liz Everly,
Cravings; Elizabeth Haynes, Human Remains; Cathy
Maxwell, The Devil’s Heart; Marliss Melton, The Enforcer;
Mary Hart Perry, Seducing the Princess; Deanna
Raybourn, A Spear of Summer Grass; Leah St. James,
Surrender to Sanctuary; Maggie Toussaint, Dime If I Know;
Laurin Wittig, Highlander Betrayed.
Monday — Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding
Camp for Girls; George Bishop Jr., The Night of the Comet;
Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth;
Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul.
Tuesday — Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River;
Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Medusa’s Daughter; Nathan Leslie,
The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice; Jen Michalski, The Tide King;
Alivia Tagliaferri, Beyond the Wall; Mary Kay Zuravleff,
Man Alive!
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Wednesday — Courtney Brkic, The First Rule of
Swimming; Ellen Herbert, Falling Women and Other Stories;
Elizabeth Huergo, The Death of Fidel Perez; Marjan Kamali,
Together Tea; Mike Maggio, The Valley of Granite and Steel;
Thomas Mallon, Watergate; Edith McClintock, Monkey
Love and Murder; Benjamin Percy, Red Moon; Virginia
Pye, River of Dust; Michael Sullivan, The Riyria Chronicles;
Charles Todd, Proof of Guilt.
Thursday — A.X. Ahmad, The Caretaker; Jean-Marie Blas
de Roblès, Where Tigers Are at Home; Simon Fruelund,
Milk & Other Stories; Scott Garson, Is That You, John
Wayne?; Tara Laskowski, Modern Manners for Your Inner
Demons; Sujata Massey, The Sleeping Dictionary; Sarah
Pekkanen, The Best of Us; Amber Sparks, May We Shed
These Human Bodies.
Friday — Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah; Brian
Bouldrey, The Sorrow of the Elves; Ellen Crosby, Multiple
Exposure; Allison Leotta, Speak of the Devil; Kyoko Mori,
Barn Cat; Brad Parks, The Good Cop; Jon Pineda, Apology;
Sarah Pleydell, Cologne; David O. Stewart, The Lincoln
Deception; Manil Suri, The City of Devi.
POETRY
Sunday — Mason M.F.A. Fellows Matt Blakely, Amber
Cook, and Sarah Winn; Meg Day, We Can’t Read This;
Sandy Longhorn, Blood Almanac.
Monday — Karen Anderson, Punish Honey; Karen Anhwei Lee, Phyla of Joy; G.C. Waldrep, Archicembalo.
Tuesday — Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth; Robyn
Schiff, Revolver; and poetry slam with Lauren Parker,
Rashid White, and Saidu Tejan-Thomas.
Wednesday — Judith Harris, Night Garden; William Logan,
Madame X.
Thursday — Sarah Colona, Hibernaculum; Joe Hall, The
Devotional Poems; Alec Finlay, Be My Reader.
Friday — Carmen Calatayud, In the Company of Spirits;
Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning; Donna Lewis Cowan,
Between Gods; Shara Lessley, Two-Headed Nightingale;
Joseph Ross, Meeting Bone Man.
CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT
Sunday — Gary Karton, The Last Akaway; Elisa Nader,
Escape from Eden; Valerie O. Patterson, Operation
Oleander; Courtney Pippin-Mathur, Maya Was Grumpy;
Elizabeth Scott, Miracle.
Tuesday - Cheryl Aubin and Sheila Harrington,
The Survivor Tree
Thursday — Alethea Kontis, Enchanted.
Friday — Hannah Barnaby, The Wonder Show.
ART/PERFORMANCE
Monday — Aaron Landsman, City Council Meeting.
Tuesday — Steven Parke, Medusa’s Daughter.
Wednesday — “Call and Response” Gallery Talk.
Thursday — Alec Finlay, The Road North.
Friday – Zainab Salbi, If You Knew Me You Would Care.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Tuesday — Seth Goldman, Mission in a Bottle: The Honest
Guide to Doing Business Differently – and Succeeding.
Wednesday — Ian Cook, Would They Call You Their Best
Boss Ever? Practical Tips and Insights for the Successful
Manager.
COOKING/FOOD
Thursday — Norman Davis, The Sweet Life; Todd Gray
and Ellen Kassoff Gray, The New Jewish Table: Modern
Seasonal Recipes for Traditional Dishes; Krista Gallagher
and Kris Schoels, A Taste of Virginia Tech; Claudia and
Dave Lefeve; Forrest Pritchard, Gaining Ground: A Story of
Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm;
Michael Stein, Ale and Lager: A Brief History of Mid Atlantic
Beer; Joe Yonan, Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the
Single Cook; Peter and Laura Zeranski, Polish Classic
Cooking and Polish Classic Desserts.
EDUCATION
Wednesday — Paul Gorski, Reaching and Teaching
Students in Poverty
ENVIRONMENTALISM
Thursday — Lisa Breglia, Living With Oil: Promises, Peaks,
and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
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FOLKLORE
Tuesday — Cristina Bacchilega, Fairy Tales Tranformed?
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Monday — Robert Dorr, Mission to Tokyo: The American
Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan; Cate
Lineberry, The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American
Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines; Juanita Patience
Moss, Forgotten Black Soldiers in White Regiments During
The Civil War.
Tuesday — Stephen Mansfield, Killing Jesus; Joseph Stahl,
Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War.
Wednesday — Peter Janney, Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA
Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer
and Their Vision for World Peace; Dean King, The Feud: The
Hatfields and the McCoys; Stephen Mansfield, Lincoln’s
Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What
It Meant for America.
Thursday — Marie Arana, Bolívar: American Liberator; Scott
W. Berg, 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning
of the Frontier’s End; M.J. O’Brien, We Shall Not Be Moved:
The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It
Inspired; Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in
New York, Summer 1953.
Friday — Ronald Spector, In the Ruins of Empire: The
Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia; Daniel
Stashower, The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder
Abraham Lincoln Before the Civil War.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Tuesday — Cristina Bacchilega, Fairy Tales Tranformed?;
Keith Clark, The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry.
Wednesday — Anthony Hoefer, Apocalypse South:
Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional
Imaginary; William Logan, Our Savage Art: Poetry and the
Civil Tongue.
MEMOIR AND STORYTELLING
Sunday – M.F.A. Nonfiction Fellow Kyle Giacomozzi.
Tuesday — E. Ethelbert Miller, Fathering Words: The Making
of an African American Writer; Elisabeth Petry, At Home
at-a-glance
Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry; and storytelling
panel with Better Said Than Done.
Thursday — Storytelling event with Better Said Than
Done; Josh Hanagarne, The World’s Strongest Librarian.
POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
Monday — Paul Loeb, Soul of a Citizen: Living With
Conviction in a Cynical Time; Ralph Nader, The Seventeen
Solutions: Bold Ideas for our American Future.
Tuesday — Political commentators Kojo Nnamdi and
Mark Plotkin.
Thursday — Lisa Breglia, Living With Oil: Promises, Peaks,
and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast.
Friday — Zainab Salbi, If You Knew Me You Would Care.
PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
Wednesday — Shane Lopez, Making Hope Happen:
Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others.
Thursday — Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith, African
American Families Today: Myths and Realities; Emily W.
Kane, The Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising
Boys and Girls.
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SPORTSWRITING
Tuesday — Elisa Gaudet, Two Good Rounds: 19th Hole
Stories from the World’s Greatest Golfers.
Thursday — Brett L. Abrams and Raphael Mazzone,
The Bullets, The Wizards and Washington DC Basketball;
Tom Dunkel, Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke
Baseball’s Color Line.
WRITING AND PUBLISHING
Sunday — Self-publishing panel with Victor Garlock, Your
Genius Within; Cindy Kane, Bad Mommy Moments; Nevin
Martell, author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes; Meredith
Maslich, Possibilities Publishing; Sumi Sexton, Pacifiers
Anonymous.
Wednesday — Ellen Herbert, Falling Women and Other
Stories; Mike Maggio, The Valley of Granite and Steel.
Friday – Editor Patricia O’Hare of GemmaMedia.
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