2008 Festival

2006 Festival

Camden Opera House
Camden, Maine
November 2, 3 and 4, 2007

Noted Authors Enrich and Enliven Festival Program

Committee of Advisors

  • Charlotte Albright
  • Bland Banwell
  • Victoria Bonebakker
  • Joseph Conforti
  • Nancy Harmon Jenkins
  • Tess Gerritsen
  • Cally Gurley
  • Wesley McNair
  • Jane Phillips
  • Richard Russo
  • Betsy Sholl

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The Maine Literary Festival is a scholarship project of the Midcoast Branch of the American Association of University Women. All proceeds from the Festival are used for the Midcoast AAUW's scholarship program for young women and girls who might otherwise not be able to attend college.

"Mayhem, Money and Mirth"

In 2007 our authors looked at the human condition through the lenses of mayhem, money and mirth. Whether pound-wise or penny-foolish, cultures clash and families feud, surviving only by recognizing, with a good laugh, that life is a comedy.
Also in 2007 the Maine Literary Festival expanded its highly acclaimed weekend festival to include a writers' workshop for both published and aspiring writers. (Read more...)

 

 

Governor Proclaims Maine Literary Weekend
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Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In addition to The Way Life Should Be, her novels include Sweet Water and Desire Lines.  She is currently working on Four Way Stop, which will also be published by William Morrow.  

Kline commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine and Room to Grow. She also co-authored a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The Conversation Begins, with her mother, Christina L. Baker.  

Kline is currently editing, with Anne Burt, The Face Book: Women Writers Look In - and Beyond - the Mirror, for publication in 2008. She was named Writer in Residence at Fordham University in June 2007.

Kline grew up in Maine, England and Tennesse. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. She has taught creative writing and literature at Fordham and Yale, among other places, and is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship. She has also worked as a caterer, cook and personal chef. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David, and three sons.


Festival Program

Mayhem, Money & Mirth
At the Camden Opera House unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, November 2: Festival Keynote and Kickoff

6 to 6:45PM - Registration
7PM - Introductory Remarks
7:15PM - Martha White - Introducing Geoffrey Wolff
7:30PM - Geoffrey Wolff: The E.B. and Katharine White Memorial Lecture
    •   Mirth at the Mill: Party immediately following at historic Knox Mill Grille

Saturday, November 3: A Day and Evening of Fact, Fiction & Fun

7:30 to 8:30AM - Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30AM - Welcome and Introductions
8:40AM - Matthew Pearl: Mayhem, Money & Mirth: A Theme and a Concept
9:30AM - The Early American Experience
    •  Peter Silver: The Social Complexity and Tangled History of Colonial Relations
    •  Mary Malloy: Sailors, Whalers and Notorious Captains
    •  James Laxer: The Acadian Experience in Search of a Homeland
    •  Questions & Answers
11:15AM to 12:55PM - Signings/Lunch on Own
1PM - Scott Donaldson: Recovering Robinson, a Great American Poet
1:30PM - Adventures in Literary Biography: Scott Donaldson (moderator),
    Charles Calhoun and Brenda Wineapple
3 to 3:45PM - Break and Signings
3:45PM - Contemporary Fiction: New Voices: Charlotte Albright (moderator),
    Geoffrey Wolff, Dorie McCullough Lawson, Owen King, Christina Baker Kline
5:15PM - Signings/Dinner on Own

7 to 9PM - The Opening Sentence
Several of our authors respond to the challenge to expand upon the following sentence within the limit of 100 words -
"In the midst of chaos, she took the wallet and disappeared into the laughing crowd." (Mayhem, Money & Mirth)
    •  Seasonal Desserts, Coffee, Mulled Cider at Élan Gallery

Sunday, November 4: A Morning of Mystery & Mischief

7:45 to 8:45AM - Continental Breakfast/Registration/Book Signings
8:55AM - Welcome and Introductions
9AM - Gary Goshgarian: History of Mystery: From Poe to Parker
     and In Between
9:40AM - Jonathan Aldrich: Dinner Was Served
10:05AM - Tess Gerritsen: Digging into Medical History &
     Weaving Research into the Novel
10:45AM - Did the Butler Do It? with Tess Gerritsen (moderator),
     Kate Flora, Gary Goshgarian, Joe Hill, Sarah Langan, Matthew Pearl
12:15PM - Wrap-up and 2008 Maine Literary Festival Highlights
12:15 to 1:15PM - Book Signings

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