BANK OF AMERICA LITERARY SALON - Baltimore Book Festival

BANK OF AMERICA LITERARY SALON Dates

September 28, 29 and 30, 2012 Friday & Saturday 12-8pm and Sunday 12-7pm FREE!

Location

Mount Vernon Place, 600 block of North Charles Street, East Park

Description

The Bank of America Literary Salon showcases popular and nationally-known authors through presentations, book signings, readings and panel discussions. The festival’s Literary Salon is supported by Bank of America and media sponsor WEAA 88.9 FM.

Highlights

Featured authors include Ledisi, Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love & Power, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, Rachel L. Swarns, American

Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, Teresa Giudice, Fabulicious!: Fast & Fit, Emily Giffin, Where We Belong, Etan Thomas, Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge, Michael Tucker, After Annie, Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good, and Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Saravejo. Schedule

Friday, September 28 12-3pm Baltimore City Public School Performances The Literary Salon Stage features student acts from Baltimore City Public Schools. Come hear some of the city’s finest young talent on display! 5-8pm

Ladies’ Night Out With your girlfriends by your side and a wine glass in hand, get ready to enjoy a literary ladies’ night out at the Baltimore Book Festival. Enjoy free wine from Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, while listening to style and beauty secrets revealed, as well as keynote addresses from, Grammy nominated singer Ledisi and ―The Real Housewives of New Jersey‖ star Teresa Giudice.

5pm

Just FAB: Fashion And Beauty Secrets Revealed! Glamour’s Andrea Pomerantz Lustig Tells All! Andrea Pomerantz Lustig, How to Look Expensive: A Beauty

Editor’s Secrets to Getting Gorgeuos without Breaking the Bank Andrea Pomerantz Lustig is Glamour magazine’s ―Beauty Sleuth,‖ known for her wildly popular beauty advice column and her

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Bank of America Literary Salon, page two contact list bursting with the hottest beauty pros. Prior to becoming a contributing editor at Glamour, she was pioneer editor-in-chief at Sephora.com, and before that she spent nine years as Beauty and Fitness Director at Cosmopolitan. Her beauty tips appear regularly in Glamour, and she’s been quoted and featured in The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Allure, and more. 6pm

Ledisi, Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love & Power ESSENCE recently partnered with powerhouse artist Ledisi to share the moments that have led the multiple Grammy nominated singer to a greater sense of self, purpose and peace in the upcoming book, Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love & Power. The book is an innovative collaboration with ESSENCE and Ledisi in her writing debut, is filled with 176 pages of the singer’s personal photos, quotes, lyrics and richly detailed stories of the musician’s journey to acceptance of her beauty, talent and power.

7pm

Teresa Giudice, Fabulicious: Fast & Fit As a New York Times bestselling author, ―The Real Housewives of New Jersey‖ star Teresa Giudice is taking the food world by storm. Giudice’s expertise in authentic Italian cooking led her to success with the publication of her two New York Times bestselling books, Skinny Italian and Fabulicious!: Teresa’s Italian Family Cookbook. In her third cookbook, Fabulicious: Fast & Fit, she shares 70 original low-fat, quickprep recipes, each of which display nutritional information for the calorie-conscious reader.

Saturday, September 29 12pm The Baltimore Sun Presents: Emily Giffin, Where We

Belong

Emily Giffin is the author of New York Times bestsellers,

Something Blue, Baby Proof, Love the One You're With, Heart of the Matter and Where We Belong. Her novels, all filled with her endearingly flawed characters and emotional complexity, have been translated into 29 languages, with more than five million copies in print worldwide. In addition, two of her novels are being optioned for the big screen, with ―Something Borrowed‖ released in theaters August 2011. 1pm

Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Jonathan Evison is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels West of Here and All About Lulu, which won the Washington State Book Award. In 2009, he was the recipient of a Richard Buckley Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Evison will discuss his newest novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, with Celeste Sollod, ―The Baltimore Bibliophile.‖

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Bank of America Literary Salon, page two 2pm

Rachel L. Swarns, American Tapestry: The Story of The Black,

White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama

Rachel L. Swarns has been a correspondent for the New York Times since 1995. She has written about domestic policy and national politics, reporting on immigration, the presidential campaigns of 2004 and 2008 and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has been a foreign correspondent for the Times, reporting from Russia, Cuba and Southern Africa, where she served as the Johannesburg bureau chief. She has also worked for the Miami Herald, where she covered the L.A. riots and the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew and at the St. Petersburg Times. 3pm

Jack McDevitt, Firebird Presented by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America As one of the giants of the science fiction genre, Jack McDevitt writes as much about humanity as the future. In 2007, Jack’s novel Seeker won one of science fiction’s highest accolades, the Nebula Award® for Best Novel given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Among his other numerous achievements, he was the first English language winner of the international UPC Science Fiction Award for his novella ―Ships in the Night.‖ McDevitt is also the winner of the prestigious Phillip K. Dick Special Award, and his fiction has been nominated for the celebrated Hugo Award given by the World Science Fiction Society.

4pm

Etan Thomas, Fatherhood: Rising To the Ultimate Challenge Hosted by Tony Richards of WHUR’s, Steve Harvey Morning Show Etan Thomas, appearing with BET’s Jeff Johnson, Malcolm "X" Shabazz's grandson Malcolm Shabazz and ―The Wire’s,‖ Tray Channey, speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a highly respected player in the NBA and a leading participant in President Obama’s Fatherhood Initiative, Thomas has reached out to young men (often young fathers) in the juvenile detention system and in local communities. He knows firsthand the difference having a father in your life every day can make—and as a father of three, Thomas walks the talk in his own life.

5pm

J.R. Moehringer, Sutton J.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Tender Bar and coauthor of Open by Andre Agassi. Moehringer has written for GQ, ESPN The Magazine and Smithsonian among many others.

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Bank of America Literary Salon, page four 6pm

Iris Krasnow, The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What it

Really Takes to Stay Married

Iris Krasnow is the author of the New York Times bestseller Surrendering to Marriage, as well as Surrendering to Motherhood, Surrendering to Yourself, and I Am My Mother’s Daughter. In her newest book, Krasnow pulls back the curtain and reveals shocking and uncensored real-life confessions of women who have stayed married for the long haul. Krasnow, a wife of 23 years and the more than 200 women she interviewed ― married anywhere from 15-70 years ― challenge the traditional way of thinking about what it takes to achieve ―happily-ever-after‖ and invite women to define for themselves what constitutes a satisfying relationship. 7pm

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, The Silenced Majority:

Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope

Presented by the Radical BookFair Pavilion On U.S. tour with their new book, Democracy Now! co-founders Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan show how the work of ordinary people—the silenced majority—is pulling back the veil of corporate media and changing the world. Sunday, September 30 12pm Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Saravejo 2012 One Maryland One Book Presented by the Maryland Humanities Council Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo has become an international bestseller with rights sold in 20 countries. It has been called ―inspiring‖ by Entertainment Weekly, ―unforgettable‖ by the Los Angeles Times and ―an exquisite novel of war and loss, music and solace‖ by O, The Oprah Magazine. A novel of great intensity and power, The Cellist of Sarajevo, brilliantly explores how war can change one’s definition of humanity, how music affects our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance. 1pm

Days Remembered: Iconic Photography of The Baltimore Sun From an Orioles’ World Series win to the haunting images of A. Aubrey Bodine, the photographers of The Baltimore Sun have captured unforgettable moments in the paper’s 175-year history. ―Days Remembered: Iconic Photography of The Baltimore Sun‖ features the work of many of the country’s greatest photographers, like Bodine, Robert F. Kniesche, Richard Stacks, Jed Kirschbaum and more. This panel discussion with current and past photographers, editors and researchers will offer a behind-the-scenes look at documenting Charm City through the years.

3pm

CityLit Project Presents Michael Tucker Baltimore’s own Michael Tucker, an actor perhaps best known as lawyer Stuart Markowitz on ―L.A. Law,‖ returns home to read

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Bank of America Literary Salon, page five from his first novel, After Annie, an irresistible tale about love and the theater. Tucker reads from and discusses the book with Tom Hall, culture editor for ―Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast‖ on WYPR. 4pm

Writing…Family, Love, Sorrow and Story: A Conversation between Ann Hood and Susan Straight. Both award winning authors Ann Hood, The Knitting Circle, and Susan Straight, Between Heaven and Here, have been writing for 20 about families who have loved and lost, who have used storytelling to lessen the sorrow, and who have never forgotten those who are no longer with us. Their novels and stories abound with characters that seem to always work their way back home, share many commonalities, including settings, which often include American landscapes of oceans and rivers, of East Coast and West. Join these women for an unscripted conversation, as they provide insight into the fascinating world of writing.

5pm

Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself.

Information

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