FFtB Wednesday: C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, 'Gone With the Wind'

Fall for the Book continues today with discussions ways to tutor your child, violence and ethics in Islam, and "Gone With the Wind." The day culminates with a presentation by acclaimed author Amy Tan. Read on for a full schedule of Wednesday's FFtB events. Check back every day for an updated event schedule.

Note that most, but not all, events will take place at George Mason University. Others will be hosted at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus and in Fairfax County Public Libraries.

• Call and Response Exhibition: Current students and alumni of Mason’s MFA Poetry Program and the School of Art, faculty and a few others came together this summer to participate in the “Call and Response” challenge, giving artists and writers an original work by another contributor to inspire a piece of their own. Now paired together, these pieces are on display throughout Fall for the Book. Johnson Center, Gallery 123; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• How to Tutor Your Child: Marina Koestler Ruben, the writing tutor at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. and author of How to Tutor Your Own Child, gives advice about how parents themselves can become the free, easily accessible, and high-quality tutors they want for their children. Sponsored by the King's Park Library. King’s Park Library, 10:30-11:45 p.m.
• German Art: Mason art history professor Marion Deshmukh discusses her recent book,Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist’s Career from Empire to Third Reich, an exploration of the role Liebermann’s paintings played amidst the violent events of modern German history. Johnson Center Room 116, 12-1:15 p.m.
• What it Means to Be "In-Between": E.C. Osondu, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, reads from his debut short story collection, Voice of America, an exploration of what it means to be an “in-between,” a Nigerian with sights set on the distant and promising, almost mythical, U.S. Sponsored by Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus. The Ernst Cultural Center Building, 2nd Fl. Forum, Northern Virginia Community College —Annandale; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
• Violence and Ethics in Islam: Faisal Devji, author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity, discusses his research on violence and ethics in relation to modern-day Islam. Sponsored by Mason’s Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies. Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts; 1:30-2:45 p.m.
• So to Speak Panel: Jamy Bond, Leslie Bumstead, Jean Donnelly, and Colleen Kearney Rich —the co-founders of So to Speak, Mason’s feminist journal of language and art — talk about their experiences with the journal since its inception 18 years ago and share what they hope lies ahead for feminist writing. Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center; 1:30-2:25 p.m.
• Religious and Spiritual Development in College:Higher education experts Alexander and Helen Astin will share some of the major findings from the large-scale national study of college students' spiritual and religious development as reported in their new book, Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives, and discuss the implications for American higher education. A reception follows. Sponsored by Mason’s Center for Consciousness and Transformation.Dewberry Hall South, Johnson Center; 1:30-2:45 p.m.
• WWII Memoir Readings: Jan Elvin, author of The Box From Braunau: In Search Of My Father’s War, and Debbie Levy, author of The Year of Goodbyes, read from their World War II memoirs and share how writing deepened their understanding of the war and of their parents’ experiences during it. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Gale Cengage Learning. Reston Community Center at Lake Anne, 2-3:15 p.m.
• Gone With the Wind Mysteries:Board member of Library Virginia Foundation, antiquarian bookseller, and author of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood, Ellen Brown debunks the mysteries surrounding Margaret Mitchell’s classic, including what really happens to Scarlett O’Hara after the novel ends. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Gale Cengage Learning. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 2-3:15 p.m.
• Northern Virginia Writers Panel: The Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, a statewide organization with the purpose of supporting and stimulating the art, craft and business of writing in the Commonwealth, hosts a reading with several distinguished members including poet Sofia M. Starnes (Fully Into Ashes), poet and fiction writer Clifford Garstang (In An Uncharted Country: Stories), historian Jack Trammell (Down on the Chickahominy), and mystery writer Austin S. Camacho (Russian Roulette). Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center; 3-4:15 p.m.
• Military Thoughts on Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Emma Cape, a staff member at the organization Courage to Resist, discusses the anthology About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War, which explores the controversial U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and presents the voices of military personnel now speaking out against them. Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts; 3-4:15 p.m.
• Stories From India: Katherine Russell Rich, the author of Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, shares stories from a year spent in India, a sometimes scandalous, even dangerous, but overall joyous and unforgettable experience that taught her more than she imagined her Hindi classes ever would. Susan McCorkindale reads from her new memoir 500 Acres and No Place to Hide, her story of being uprooted from New York City and transplanted to a Virginia farm. Sponsored by Better Karma Publishing. Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center; 4:30-5:45 p.m.
• Marquis de Lafayette: The author of seven books, including the critically acclaimed Flag: An American Biography, Marc Leepson discusses his latest, Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General, about the famed Marquis de Lafayette and his military and diplomatic influence on both the American and French revolutions. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning. Johnson Center, Room 116; 4:30-5:45 p.m.
• Challenges of Immigrants: Mason professor Debra Lattanzi Shutika looks at the challenges of immigrants in her book Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico, a study of Mexican families living in a small Pennsylvania farming village, and their struggle with belonging to a new country and being displaced from their old homes. Founders Hall, George Mason University Arlington Campus, 5:30-6:45 p.m.
• Poets Martha Collins and Fanny Howe: Martha Collins, Pushcart Prize-winning author of Blue Front, a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old, and Fanny Howe, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for her lifetime achievements in the field of poetry, read from their recent collections.Sponsored by the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts; 6-7:15 p.m.
• Benjamin Percy's Debut Novel: Winner of the Whiting Award and the Plimpton Prize and author of two critically acclaimed short story collections, Benjamin Percy reads from and discusses his debut novel, The Wilding. Johnson Center Cinema, 6-7:15 p.m.
• Poet R. Dwayne Betts: R. Dwayne Betts, author of the memoir A Question of Freedom, which won the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut, samples his poetry collection, Shahid Reads His Own Palm. In partnership with Busboys & Poets. Busboys & Poets at Shirlington Village in Arlington; 6:30-7:45 p.m.
• Memoirist Alexandra Fuller: Alexandra Fuller shares how her childhood experiences in war-torn Rhodesia left an indelible mark on her writing, including her most recent book, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfullness, about the love and war that once filled her family’s life. Sponsored by Politics and Prose. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW; 7-8:15 p.m.
• Master of Fine Arts Alumni Reading:Mason MFA alumni, including novelist Matthew Norman (Domestic Violets),poets Brian Barker (The Black Ocean) and Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Sightseer), and nonfiction writer Supriya Bhatnagar (and then there were three…), read from their debut publications. Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts; 7:30-8:45 p.m.
• C-SPAN's Brian Lamb:In 1989, C-SPAN founder and CEO Brian Lamb inaugurated the weekly program Booknotes, and for the next 15 years, he interviewed 800 of the world’s leading nonfiction authors. In conjunction with his recent donation of those books — and his detailed marginalia in them — to Mason’s University Libraries, Lamb speaks with Mason history professor Richard Norton Smith about highpoints from these interviews and on his pioneering career in television broadcasting. Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts; 7:30-8:45 p.m.
• All Fairfax Reads: Conor Grennan, founder of the non-profit organization Next Generation Nepal, shares how his three-month stint in a Nepalese orphanage turned into a lifelong mission to help reconnect trafficked Nepalese children with their families. Grennan’s book, Little Princes, is this year’s selection for All Fairfax Reads, the Fairfax County Public Library’s community-wide reading program. Sponsored by the Fairfax County Public Library. Harris Theater, 7:30-8:45 p.m.

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