Schedule | Sunday, July 26

8:00–8:35 a.m. Plenary Session, Auditorium

“Revealing Characters: How to Make Dull People Sparkle” Susan Warren, Texas Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal and author of Backyard Giants.

8:35–8:45 a.m. Q & A with Susan Warren

8:50–9:25 a.m. Plenary Session, Auditorium

“Once Bitten: Lessons from the Deadly Kingdom” Gordon Grice, a nature writer from rural Oklahoma and author of The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators.

9:25–9:35 a.m. Q & A with Gordon Grice

9:40–10:15 a.m. Plenary Session, Auditorium

“Living History: Rowing, Jumping, and Sleeping through the Lincoln Conspiracy” Michael W. Kauffman, a journalist, narrative historian and a fixture at assassination-related symposia.

10:15–10:25 a.m. Q & A with Michael Kauffman

10:30–11:05 a.m. Plenary Session, Auditorium

“From Proposal to Publication: Publishing What Matters” John Parsley, a Senior Editor at Little, Brown and Company, acquiring narrative nonfiction that focuses on science and natural history, history and current events, music, sports, business, food, and humor.

11:15–11:30 a.m. Break outside La Verde

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Keynote Address, Auditorium

"Dancing with Cuba" Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin American correspondent for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and author of Dancing with Cuba.

12:15–12:20 p.m. Short Reading by Alma Guillermoprieto

12:20–12:25 p.m. Q & A with Alma Guillermoprieto

12:25–12:30 p.m. Farewell Address by Mitch Land

12:30–1:00 p.m. Book Signing outside the Auditorium for Alma Guillermoprieto, Michael W. Kauffman, Gordon Grice and Susan Warren.