Session One Schedule – Writers on Writers

“Writers on Writers”

—SESSION ONE—

the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar

January 10–13, 2013

Unless noted, all events take place at the San Carlos Institute, 516 Duval Street. Sunday afternoon’s session is free and open to the public: first-come, first-seated. All other sessions require advance registration. Check-in for registrants will take place on Thursday from 1:00-5:00 pm. The San Carlos will re-open in the evening at 7:00. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings the building opens at 8:30, with breakfast available upstairs from 8:45; early seating begins at 9:00.

*All events and speakers are subject to change. Schedule valid as of 11/09/2012.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10

7:45 pm. Introductory Remarks: Lynn Kaufelt, President & Co-founder
8:00 pm. Phyllis Rose: Can Writers Ride Bikes? Writing Writers’ Lives
The John Hersey Memorial Address

Reception to follow at the Oldest House Museum & Garden, 322 Duval St.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11

9:30-9:40 am. Introduction: Peyton Evans, Program Chair
9:40 – 10:00 am. Geoff Dyer on D.H. Lawrence: “Out of Sheer Rage”
10:00 -10:45 am. Mark Doty on Walt Whitman: Somewhere, Waiting for You

11:05-11:50 am. Pico Iyer on Graham Greene: Possessed by a Scribbling Ghost
11:50–12:30 pm. Mark Doty, Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer: I and Not I: Resonance and Reflection. How Writers Become Ourselves. Moderator: Christopher Lydon

Book Signings: Mark Doty, Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer, Phyllis Rose

2:15–2:45 pm. Julie Salamon on Wendy Wassserstein: An Uncommon Life
2:45–3:00 pm. Rosalind Brackenbury: “Becoming George Sand”
3:00–3:15 pm. Jay Parini on Leo Tolstoy: “The Last Station”
3:15–3:30 pm. Colm Tóibín on Henry James: “The Master”

3:50–4:30 pm. Rosalind Brackenbury, Paul Hendrickson, Jay Parini, Colm Tóibín: Re-imagining A Life. Moderator: Robert D. Richardson

Book Signings: Rosalind Brackenbury, Jay Parini, Colm Tóibín

4:30–6:00 pm. “Between the Lines”: Exhibit & Reception at Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. Works by Curt Richter, Barry Moser, and Lucky Street Artists. Book signing by Lincoln Perry and Robert D. Richardson.
6:00–7:00 pm. Cocktail reception at San Carlos Institute
6:00–6:40 pm. Writers on Chickens
“A short film on the great chicken problem of Key West!” Shortpantz Productions, aka Jane & Carey Winfrey. (Film will loop every 10 minutes; at San Carlos)

7:00–8:00 pm. Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Jay Parini: The John Malcolm Brinnin Memorial Reading

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12

9:30–9:40 am. Announcements
9:40–10:10 am. Paul Hendrickson on Ernest Hemingway: Amid So Much Ruin, Still the Beauty
10:10–10:40 am. Judith Thurman: Translating A Life: Who are you? Who am I?
10:40–11:10 am. Brenda Wineapple: Hidden in Plain Sight: Emily Dickinson’s Not So Secret Friend

11:30–11:55 am. Michael Mewshaw: “Do I Owe You Something?”
11:55–12:30 pm. James Atlas: The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale

Book Signings: James Atlas, Paul Hendrickson, Michael Mewshaw, Judith Thurman, Brenda Wineapple

1:00–2:00 pm. Exhibit & Reception at Gallery on Greene, 606 Greene St. “Key West Writer Artists”: Works by Phyllis Rose, Annie Dillard, & Tennessee Williams
2:15–2:25 pm. From “Writing in General,” in remembrance of Rust Hills. Performed by John Wells.
2:25–2:40 pm. Julie Salamon on Wendy Wasserstein: “Wendy and the Lost Boys”
2:40–3:20 pm. Mark Doty, Colm Tóibín, Edmund White: The Voices of Our Ancestors: Love In A Dark Time

3:40–4:10 pm. Jay Parini: Shaping A Life and the Narrative Arc: How Writers Chew on Other Writers
4:10–5:00 pm. James Atlas, Robert D. Richardson, Judith Thurman, Brenda Wineapple: The Work of a Biographer. Moderator: Jay Parini

Book Signings: Julie Salamon, Edmund White

7:00–9:30 pm. Dinner at the Harry S. Truman Little White House, 111 Front St.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13

9:30–9:40 am. Announcements
9:40–9:55 am. Paul Hendrickson: “Hemingway’s Boat”
9:55–10:20 am. Robert D. Richardson: In Search of Lost Time: Biography and Fiction
10:20–11:05 am. Rosalind Brackenbury, Pico Iyer, Julie Salamon, Colm Tóibín: How Far Can the Facts Take Us? Moderator: Christopher Lydon

11:25–12:05 pm. Geoff Dyer: The Novelistic Essay & the Essayistic Novel
12:05–12:45 pm. Jay Parini, Phyllis Rose, Edmund White, Brenda Wineapple: The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity. Moderator: James Atlas

Book Signings: Billy Collins, Robert D. Richardson

1:00–2:15 pm. Conch Chowder Luncheon at the Oldest House Museum & Garden, 322 Duval St.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Free and open to the public. Doors open at 1:45 pm.
San Carlos Institute, 516 Duval Street

2:00–2:10 pm. Welcome. Miles Frieden, Executive Director
2:10–2:20 pm. Billy Collins: “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes”
2:20–2:50 pm. Pico Iyer: The Self as Other. Interviewed by Christopher Lydon.
2:50 – 3:20 pm. Michael Mewshaw and Jay Parini on Gore Vidal.

3:40–3:50 pm. Mark Doty: “What is the Grass?”
3:50–4:30 pm. Judith Thurman, Colm Tóibín, Edmund White, Brenda Wineapple: Writers’ Lives: How a Life Illuminates a Work. Moderator: Daniel Menaker

Book Signings: Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Michael Mewshaw, Jay Parini, Colm Tóibín, Judith Thurman, Edmund White, Brenda Wineapple

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