Posted on September 30, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Every week Nell Boeschenstein of C-VILLE Weekly drags forth the best of the Web and advises us to Hit This Site. This week’s pick is a literary version of MySpace/Facebook called Good Reads, which advertises itself as a way to: see what your friends are reading keep track of what you’ve read and what you’d [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Want to find or start a book group? Need ideas for your reading list? JMRL has two new online resources for you! From my email: There are 2 new websites to help all the “people who love to read” in our area: Readers’ Corner – dedicated to reading and books- includes all the lists you [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
So good to know I’m not the only person in America who appreciated Altman’s Popeye. Thanks to Ed, Quiet Bubble, and Critic After Dark, I’m sending it to the top of my Netflix queue. (Has it really been 26 years?) (A Jules Feiffer screenplay — I’d forgotten that.)
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The MacArthur Fellows have been announced. Corey Harris of Charlottesville and Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech are among the distinguished winners of the renowned “genius grants.”
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Smithereens is gearing up to tackle The Divine Comedy and looking for suggestions on which translation to read. I’m fond of John Ciardi‘s myself, but I don’t think it’s online anywhere.
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Posted on September 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The full Moncrieff translation of Remembrance of Things Past is online, along with the first two volumes in French. (Via Rodney Welch)
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Posted on September 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
More literary goodness, this time from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On The Road,” the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library is having a group discussion of this influential book. Everyone who followed the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they sought pleasure and meaning while traveling coast [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
An intriguing new offering from the Charlottesville Writing Center: FALL WALKS A series of walks in town Saturday mornings in November 9 am – 11:30, followed by Writing Time, Sharing Time, and Snacks. November 3 Mysteries along the Rivanna Trail November 10 People-Watching on the Downtown Mall November 17 Hidden corners of the UVA Gardens [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
(1) Want to double your traffic? Put the words “Ward Churchill” anywhere on your site. If you post it, they will come. (2) To the person who came here looking for “eggplant parmesan” — I hope you found something useful.
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Posted on September 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Jan Karon, David Ignatius, Eric Abrahamson are the headliners for the 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book and will speak at the Festival and Crime Wave Mystery luncheons and the Business breakfast: Tickets will be $45 for the Festival Luncheon, $45 for the Crime Wave Mystery Luncheon, $25 for the Business Breakfast and $25 for [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Just one more reason Charlottesville is an awesome place to live. Where else east of the Mississippi would you get the chance to hear Ward Churchill, Natsu Saito, Derrick Jensen, and Dana Lyons — all in one weekend? Columbus: Myth and the American Dream Revisited will be a full weekend of investigation into “our collective [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Maureen Dowd’s New York Times columns can now be seen free of charge, along with those of her fellow pundits whose opinions made up the bulk of Times Select. Nice, but it kind of takes the fun out of ignoring David Brooks’ column every week. Ah, that crazy MSM, when will they ever learn? What [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Today’s Talk of the Nation featured a very interesting interview with David Cordingly, author of a new biography of Thomas Cochrane, who was the model for Patrick O’Brian‘s fictional sea captain, Jack Aubrey. The book is called Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander, and would be an excellent Christmas or birthday gift for a Patrick [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Washington Post published its Fall Book Preview in last Sunday’s Book World section. It’s always nice to have something to look forward to, isn’t it? No matter how high my to-be-read pile grows, I want to know that there will be more good books to add to it. Here’s what caught my eye: The [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
This week’s Duotrope’s Digest newsletter featured a new literary review with a focus on the Delmarva region (that’s Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, for you outlanders). From their homepage: The Delmarva Review is a literary review publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and short reviews. The Review was originally founded to feature writing from the Delmarva [...]
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