Friday | January 11th
5pm - 9pm | Zappa Room

 
NBCC LitPanel #2 5:30 pm

NEW VOICES/UNRECOGNIZED VOICES

NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari moderates a panel discussing who to watch for, what they are working on, and new forms that might appear (including new technology).

PANELISTS

Sandy Dijkstra, literary agent

Eli Horowitz, Publisher, McSweeney’s Books

Suzanne Kleid, City Lights Books and KQED blogger

David Kipen, NEA Director of Literature/BIG READ, former NBCC board member.

Michael Ray, editor ZOETROPE:ALL STORY

Michelle Richmond, author (THE GIRL IN THE FALL-AWAY DRESS, THE YEAR OF FOG), blogger (Sans Serif), editor (Fiction Attic)

Greg Sarris, fiction writer (GRAND AVENUE, WATERMELON NIGHTS), screenwriter, college professor, Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. 

NBCC LitPanel #3, Zappa Room,6:30 pm

THE VIEW FROM HERE: IS THE WEST COAST DRIVING AMERICAN LITERATURE?

The jumping off point for this discussion is the comment Sam Tanenhaus made to NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel of BookBabes when he became editor of the New York Times Book Review.Oscar Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle Book Editor and NBCC board member moderates.

PANELISTS
Andrew Sean Greer, novelist (THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE)

Mary Ann Gwinn,Book Editor, Seattle, NBCC board member

Ellen Heltzel,BookBabes, Portland, NBCC board member

Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly, NBCC member

David Ulin, editor, Los Angeles Times Book Review