Nineteenth Annual Literary Festival
honoring Lisa Alther/Emory and Henry College/Emory, Virginia

Thursday, Oct. 19
2:30 pm -- "Gathering Scattered Allegiances: The Alther Heroine's Journey 'in Search of Labels'", Harriette Buchanan, Appalachian State University
3:30 pm -- "Shades of the Sixties: Lisa Alther's ORIGINAL SINS", Fred Waage, East Tennessee State University
8 pm -- Lisa Alther reads from her work

Friday, October 20
2:30 pm -- "The Learning of Laughter", Jan Hokenson, Florida Atlantic University
3:30 pm -- A Conversation with Lisa Alther -- Wayne Pond, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Emory and Henry College is located seven miles east of Abingdon, Virginia, at Exit 26, Interstate 81. For more information, please contact Professor John Lang, Emory and Henry College, P.O. Box 947, Emory, Virginia 24327-0947, (540) 944-6143.