The Robertson Salon
10:30am-11:15am
PEN IN THE CLASSROOM
Readings by students.
Fabian Debora
Quentin Moore
Hector Verdugo
11:15am-12:00pm
PEN EMERGING VOICES
Readings by newly published authors.
Authors:
Cynthia Bond
Juan Carlos Castro
Reyna Grande
Avi Lall
Melinda Palacio
Sandra Ramirez
Alisha Westerman
No Signing
12:00pm-12:45pm
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT – LITERARY NON-FICTION READINGS
Loretta Contreras, Daniel Takeshi Krause, Jennifer Walsh
Moderator – Michael Datcher
Author Hosted Signing @ Robertson Scene signing area
1:00pm-2:15pm
POETRY SALON
Noah Blaustein, Ramon Garcia, Susan McCabe, Lynne Thompson, Terry Wolverton, Gail Wronsky
Moderator – Elena Karina Byrne
Author Hosted Signing @ Robertson Scene signing area
2:15pm-3:30pm
QUEER RENEGADES
Perry Brass, Shane Bruce, Trebor Healey, Stephen Levine, Aaron Raz Link, Ian MacKinnon, Tim Miller, Alex Peabody, Steven Reigns
Moderator: Michael Kearns
Author Hosted Signing @ Robertson Scene signing area
3:30pm-4:15pm
PEN USA/WORD THEATRE PRESENT “READINGS FROM BANNED BOOKS”
Celebrity guests will join together to kick off the American Library Association’s “Banned Book Week” with readings from banned books.
Adrean Robbins (daughter of Harold Robbins) reading from “The Carpetbaggers”
Gary Dourdan (”CSI”) reading from “Native Son”
Catherine Dent (”The Shield) reading “Heather has Two Mommies”
Sarah Clarke (”24″) reading from “A Handmaid’s Tale”
Xander Berkeley (”24″) reading from “Howl”
Robert Wuhl (”Arliss”) reading from “The Vice Principal”
4:15pm-5:00pm
“BURN, BABY, BURN: READINGS FROM SKID ROW”
No Signing
5:00pm-5:45pm
STORY TIME WITH WAYNE HENDRICKSON
Wayne Hendrickson served as the “Night Proctor” at UC Santa Cruz’s Porter College for many years. During that time, he bore witness to some of the most bizarre and fabulous student antics in the college’s history. Wayne will host a “story time” with tales from his book chronicling these antics, “Don’t Tell the Parents.”
Signing Afterwards @ The Robertson Salon