Location: James Michener Pavilion
Time: 4:40 pm
What does the future hold for the world of the book and bookstore? Find out during this thought-provoking panel discussion, which will bring together a bookstore owner, a literary agent, a book publisher and a journalist to share their unique … Continue reading
Jim Milliot is co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly and vice president of PWxyz, the company that acquired PW from Reed in April 2010. Jim has been with PW for 19 years, starting as the business and news editor, topics he still covers today. Prior to joining PW, Jim was executive editor at Simba Information, a publisher of newsletters and market studies on various media segments, including trade and educational book publishing. Simba’s flagship publications were BP Report and Educational Marketer, for which Jim served as editor. Jim is a regular contributor to different industry publications, including Bowker’s Book Consumer Annual Review, and BISG’s Consumer Attitudes Towards E-Books report.
Sam Dorrance is currently publisher, director of marketing and subsidiary rights at Potomac Books, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia. His publishing career began in 1971 at Yale University Press, followed by positions in sales and marketing at Harvard University Press, Basil Blackwell, University of California Press, and Island Press. He has been priviledged to work with several bestselling authors, including E. O. Wilson, Eudora Welty, Oliver Sacks, and Michael Scheuer, all of whose books made national bestseller lists. Off hours, Sam and his wife Alice Blackmer enjoy racing and cruising their Tartan 34 sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, accompanied by two intrepid Schnauzers.
Raphael Sagalyn was born and raised in Western Massachusetts and attended Tufts University and the Radcliffe (now Columbia) Publishing Procedures Course. He worked for Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, Beacon Press and Little, Brown before moving to Washington, DC to work for The New Republic. He started the agency in 1980 and his first author was Jim Trelease who had self-published a pamphlet extolling the virtues and pleasures of reading aloud to children and students. Penguin released "The Read Aloud Handbook" in 1982 and it was an immediate bestseller after "Dear Abby" called it "the best lifetime gift a parent can give to a child."
Lissa Muscatine is co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC. Before acquiring the store with her husband, Bradley Graham, in June 2011, she had spent her professional career in journalism, politics, and government. She most recently served in the Obama Administration as Director of Speechwriting and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State. She was a senior advisor on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and was co-collaborator on Clinton’s White House memoir, Living History. During the Clinton Administration, Muscatine served as a Presidential Speechwriter and Deputy Assistant to the President and later as Director of Communications to the First Lady. Prior to entering government, she spent 15 years as a journalist, reporting for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi, the Washington Star, and The Washington Post, where she was a reporter and editor covering a wide range of beats, from politics to sports. She has contributed commentary pieces to The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and blogs for PunditWire.com and the Politics and Prose website. She has received several journalism awards, and is a frequent guest speaker at area universities. She was profiled in Tom Brokaw’s book about the 1960s, Boom! Muscatine has served on the boards of Sidwell Friends School, the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, the Women’s Sports Foundation, and Imagination Stage. She is also on the advisory board of the School for Ethics and Global Leadership in Washington, DC. A native of Berkeley, California, she graduated from Harvard University in 1976, where she majored in history and was captain of the tennis team, and was among 13 American women awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 1977 – the first year women could apply. At Oxford, she studied contemporary European politics. Muscatine and Graham have three children and reside in Bethesda, Maryland.
Location: Dashiell Hammett Pavilion
Time: 4:40 pm
These “partners in crime” will discuss mystery writing and their latest works. Alan Orloff is making his a third Festival appearance with his latest release, “Deadly Campaign” (Midnight Ink), the second in the Last Laff Mystery series. His debut mystery, … Continue reading
Thomas Kaufman is the author of “Steal the Show," his second book about Washington, D.C., private eye Willis Gidney. He’s also an Emmy Award-winning director/cameraman, shooting TV programs for BBC, Discovery, and NatGeo, as well as on the sets of “The Wire,” “West Wing,” “John Adams,” and “VEEP.”
Alan Orloff is making his a third Festival appearance with his latest release, “Deadly Campaign” (Midnight Ink), the second in the Last Laff Mystery series. His debut mystery, “Diamonds for the Dead,” was an Agatha Award finalist for Best First Novel, and, writing as Zak Allen, he’s published two ebooks, “The Taste” and “First Time Killer.”
Location: Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion
Time: 4:40 pm
Richard Peabody, author and founding editor of Gargoyle magazine, as he presents the new book “Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction By Washington Women,” which is a collection of stories by Washington area women and novel excerpts by 45 … Continue reading
Richard Peabody edits Gargoyle Magazine and has published a novella, two books of short stories, six books of poems, plus an e-book, and edited (or co-edited) nineteen anthologies. He teaches fiction writing for the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies Program.
Location: Dashiell Hammett Pavilion
Time: 1:00 pm
Chris Pavone, author of the acclaimed debut novel “The Expats,” and Washington Post journalist Ian Shapira will both be making their first appearance at this year’s book festival. Together on stage for the first time, they will be discussing Pavone’s … Continue reading
Chris Pavone is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Expats" (Crown), which came out in March.
Ian Shapira is a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he specializes in articles about the CIA and the agency’s impact on family life.
Location: Gertrude Stein Pavilion
Time: 12:20 pm
Making her third appearance at the Book Festival, Sarah Pekkanen, author of the new book “These Girls,” will share the stage with veteran New York Times best-selling author and GBF newbie, Jen Lancaster, the author of five memoirs including her … Continue reading
Jen Lancaster is a popular humorist, blogger, and the author of five memoirs including her new one, “Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner.”
Sarah Pekkanen is the internationally bestselling author of "The Opposite of Me" and "Skipping a Beat" and the original short estory "All is Bright". Her novels have won rave reviews from O Magazine, People, Harper's Bazaar and The Washington Post.
Location: H.L. Mencken Pavilion
Time: 12:20 pm
In this pairing, we’re keeping it all in the family with father/daughter duo, Marvin and Deborah Kalb, two generations of journalists who joined forces to write their new book, “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.” … Continue reading
Location: Gertrude Stein Pavilion
Time: 10:20 am
Based on Feely’s recent book, “Confessions: Fact or Fiction?” – a collection of 22 short stories and memoirs written by award-winning authors from around the country, this panel will engage a number of local authors to read from their stories … Continue reading
Herta B. Feely, who co-edited the anthology, “Confessions: Fact or Fiction,” is an award-winning writer and editor. In 2010, she received the American Independent Writers award for best published personal essay, and for her novel Serra Blue, she was awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and an Artist Fellowship in Literature from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities. Her short fiction and memoir pieces have appeared in The Sun, Lullwater Review, Provincetown Magazine, The Potomac Review, and Big Muddy. In 2002, she received her M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working on a novel titled, “But, I Love Her.”
Marian O’Shea Wernicke has been the faculty editor of The Hurricane Review, a national literary magazine published by Pensacola State College, for the past seven years. She is a recently retired professor of English at the college, and participated at the Sewanee Writers Conference in workshop with Maxine Kumin and Mark Jarman. She writes poetry and fiction and is now working on a memoir about her father.
Location: F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion
Time: 1:00 pm
Returning for the second time is Ron Charles, the well-known critic and fiction editor for The Washington Post. This year, Charles will be on stage in conversation with the prolific and award winning author Stewart O’Nan, whose most recent novel … Continue reading
Stewart O’Nan is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, most recently, “The Odds: A Love Story” (Viking Adult). His other works include “Snow Angels,” “A Prayer for the Dying,” “Last Night at the Lobster,” and “Emily, Alone.” Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh.
Ron Charles is the fiction editor and a weekly book critic for the Washington Post. In 2008, he won the National Book Critics Circle award for his reviews.
SATURDAY
MAY 19, 2012
10AM - 6PM
GAITHERSBURG
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