Wordstock Festival 2011: Full Schedule

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2:00pm

Vera Brosgol & Jonathan Hill

Speakers

Vera Brosgol

Vera Brosgol lives in Portland, Oregon, where she draws storyboards for feature animation at Laika Inc. On evenings and weekends she produces comics and illustrations, some of which can be seen on her website. Her first graphic novel, ANYA’S GHOST, was published by FirstSecond Books in June 2011. In her spare time she likes to knit, garden and bake cookies, in addition to other septuagenarian pursuits.

Jonathan Hill

Jonathan Hill is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Portland. AMERICUS will be his first graphic novel. AMERICUS Website: http://www.saveapathea.com Twitter: @oneofthejohns

Saturday October 8, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Oregon Cultural Trust Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, Reading

Tags Reading, graphic novel

4:00pm

Marjorie Sandor & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Speakers

Marjorie Sandor

Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, including a new memoir, THE LATE INTERIORS: A LIFE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Her linked story collection PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, WHO POSED NUDE IN WARTIME: STORIES won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. Her previous book of essays THE NIGHT GARDENER: A SEARCH FOR HOME won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Sandor’s work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, and the...
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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York based writer. Born and raised in Singapore, Tan crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. An active member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years, ending in 2010. Her memoir A TIGER IN THE KITCHEN is about discovering her Singaporean family by learning to cook with them. Tan has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine, and the...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Oregon Cultural Trust Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, Reading

Tags Reading, food writing

12:00pm

Johnny Shaw & Scott Sparling

Speakers

Johnny Shaw

Johnny Shaw was born and raised on the Calexico/Mexicali border, the setting for his debut novel DOVE SEASON. Shaw attended both University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Barbara for his undergraduate studies. He received his MFA in screenwriting from the prestigious School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. His work has won numerous awards, including the $100,000 King Arthur Screenwriters Award. Intrigued by all writing media, it was only a matter of time...
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Scott Sparling

Scott Sparling lives outside Portland with his wife and son. His first novel is WIRE TO WIRE, a story of train-hopping, glue-sniffing and love in Northern Michigan in the late 1970s. WIRE TO WIRE was published by Tin House Books in June 2011. It was called “well crafted and thrilling” by Publishers Weekly and “Smart, thrilling and darkly funny” by The Oregonian. Sparling’s short story WALKING was a winner in the 2006 Wordstock fiction contest.

Sunday October 9, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Oregon Cultural Trust Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, Reading

Tags Reading, Fiction

3:00pm

William M. Adler & Christopher Phillips

Speakers

William M. Adler

William M. Adler has written for many national and regional magazines, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones and the Texas Observer. In addition to THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED, he has authored two other books of narrative nonfiction: LAND OF OPPORTUNITY (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995), an intimate look at the rise and fall of a crack cocaine empire, and MOLLIE’S JOB (Scribner, 2000), which follows the flight of a single factory job from the US to Mexico over the course of fifty...
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Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips, a foremost specialist in the Socratic Method. CONSITUTION CAFÉ: JEFFERSON’S BREW FOR A TRUE REVOLUTION is Phillips’s manifesto for modern day politics. Phillips is founder and Executive Director of the Democracy Café and the Society for Philosophical Inquiry. In addition to being a civic activist and bestselling author, Phillips is also an educator. He holds a PhD in communications and masters degrees in the humanities, natural sciences, and education. Phillips...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Oregon Cultural Trust Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, Reading

Tags Reading, nonfiction

5:00pm

Nancy Rommelman & Jennifer Lauck

Speakers

Jennifer Lauck

Jennifer Lauck is an award-winning journalist, celebrated teacher and the author of the New York Times best seller BLACKBIRD. When featured on The Oprah Show, Winfrey told her audience, “This should have been a Book of the Month book. Read it now!“ Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner, ANGELA’S ASHES, wrote of Blackbird: “Written gloriously and movingly.“ The London Times wrote: “Lauck has constructed a riveting narrative from the awful mess of her life. That she...
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Nancy Rommelmann

Nancy Rommelmann was born in New York City, raised in Brooklyn, and did an 18-year stint in Los Angeles, where she became a journalist after the movie star thing did not work out. She has published two books: THE BAD MOTHER, a novel about street kids in Hollywood; and FORTY BUCKS AND A DREAM, a collection of essays about Los Angeles. Rommelmann writes about people and how they do and do not fit themselves into culture, their dreams, delusions, and sometimes criminal behavior. Her work has...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oregon Cultural Trust Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, Reading