Schedule for NoirCon 2010

David Goodis, circa 1950, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Thursday, November 4th, 2010   [Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street]

 
7:00 PM  DAVID GOODIS: TO A PULP - Larry Withers with Jared Case

Friday, November 5th, 2010  [Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street]

8:30 AM Registration

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  PORNOGRAPHY IN NOIR FICTION  -   Reed F. Coleman,  Jay                 Gertzman ad Christa Faust

10:00 AM  - 10:15 AM BREAK

10:15 AM  - 11:15 AM PHILADELPHIA NOIR  PANEL (Akashic Books) - Meredith Anthony, Keith Gilman,  Dennis Tafoya, Jim Zervanos, Duane Swierczynski, Carlin Romano 

11:20 AM - 12:30 PM JOHNNY TEMPLE - Johnny Temple with Tim McLoughlin
        (Recipient of the Jay and Deen Kogan Award for Excellence in Publishing)

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM IACW LUNCHEON FOR WILLIAM HEFFERNAN - With Cullen Gallagher

1:50 PM  - 3:00 PM GEORGE PELECANOS - George Pelecanos with Laura Lippman
                               (Recipient of the David L. Goodis Award)

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM BREAK

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM  - DARK PASSAGE: Noir Poetry - Daniel Hoffman, Robert Polito, and Ed Pettit

4:35 PM  - 4:40 PM BREAK

4:40 PM - 5:40 PM WRITERS ON NOIR- Vicki Hendricks, Reed Farrel Coleman, William Heffernan, Seth Harwood with Cameron Ashley (Crime Factory)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  Awards Dinner at the Mummers Museum
Tim McLoughlin (Johnny Temple) and Sarah Weinman (George Pelecanos)

Saturday, November 6th, 2010  [Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street]

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Registration

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM LADY IN THE DARK: As Noir As it Gets - Joan M. Schenkar 

(NoirCon Keynote Speaker 2010); Intro. Robert Polito

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM BREAK

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM PATRICIA HIGHSMITH AT THE MOVIES - Rich Edwards and Thomas Kaufman

11:45 AM - 12:00 Noon BREAK

12:00 Noon - 1:15 PM  THROUGH A REARVIEW DARKLY: A Revisionist History of Noir -      Megan Abbott and Anthony Neil Smith 

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM  LUNCH On-Your-Own

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM  SORTING OUT THE SYNDICATE - Goombahs, Gonifs, and The                       Italian-Jewish Mob - John Buntin

3:20 PM - 4:30 PM DAMN NEAR DEAD 2 : LIVE NOIR OR DIE TRYING! (Busted Flush Press) - Patti Abbott, Scott Cupp, Christa Faust, Scott Phillips, S.J. Rozan and Reed F. Coleman

4:40 PM - 5:20 PM REALITY AND NOIR - The Everyday Quality of Evil

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM   NOIR-GAY BINGO to Benefit the AIDS FUND. at the Double Tree 

Sunday, November 7th, 2010   [Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street]

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM TBA

10:30 AM - 10:40 AM  BREAK

10:45AM - 11:40 AM FANTOMAS AT 99 - The Lord of Terror - Howard A.  Rodman and David White

12:00 N - 1:15 PM  LAST CALL - with William Boyle, William Lashner, Lawrence Light, and Jon McGoran 
                              (Lunch will be provided along with LCP)