Posted on January 31, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
With mere hours to spare, I crossed the National Just Read More Novels Month finish line with Beginner’s Greek. The truth is, I’m more than a little embarrassed. I managed to get through only one novel this whole month? And it’s January, one of our bleaker months and thus well suited for reading. I blame [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Rob Sheffield, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and a former resident of Charlottesville, was at the New Dominion Bookshop last Tuesday to read from his memoir, Love is a Mix Tape. Thanks to Charlottesville Podcasting Network for the recording. Related links: John Ruscher at C-Ville Cavalier Daily coverage The Hook cover story USAToday recommendation [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
I’m violating my lolcats ban to report this bit of unhappy news from Publishers Lunch – You lol’d them as a blog, now roflmao them as a book: I Can Has Cheezburger’s PROFESSOR HAPPY CAT’S GUIDE TO THE LOLCATS, featuring old and new images from their blog: www.icanhascheezburger.com, to Patrick Mulligan at Gotham, in a [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Registration is now open for Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. The workshop will take place June 8-13.
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Last Thursday I attended a reading by poet Sharon Leiter at the New Dominion Bookshop. She read from her new book, The Dream of Leaving, to an appreciative audience. I particularly liked Leiter’s poems “Rockaway in the Himalayas,” and “Rockaway in the Virginias,” with their images of the Himalayas as “an erratic cardiogram” and the [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Event calendars seem to be a wheel that’s constantly being reinvented. Let Cville Words be no exception! I’ve added a local events calendar to the sidebar. You can subscribe to the Google Calendar, or just watch the feed. Suggestions, corrections, and feedback all greatly appreciated. Feel free to drop me a note if you know [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
A writing friend passed along this rejection letter from Lunch Hour Stories. Very nicely done! Someone took the time to put my friend’s name and the title of her story on the letter (I have erased these). There’s clear encouragement to continue submitting more of her work. Take a closer look at that checklist (click [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
That’s my friend Christina Strick in the pages of issue 38 of Pearl! “Bingo” is her first published story, and it’s a great one.
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Posted on January 24, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Once again John Grisham will be your judge and jury. No appeals will be granted. Enter your story of under 3,500 words to the Hook newsroom by 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, then keep your fingers crossed until March 4, when the winners will be notified. Top prize is $700. Entry fee is $5 for [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Robby Goes to Charlottesville does some digging and finds out why my kids’ copies of Roseanne: Season 97: In Which Everyone Argues a Lot are taking so long to get here. Here’s my tawdry little secret: Every once in a while I check the job listings at Netflix to see if they’re opening up anything [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
A great leap forward, or another slip in their long downhill slide? We’re pleased to bring The Atlantic before a broader online audience. We hope that the quality of its writing, the trenchancy of its insights, and the depth and thoughtfulness of its reporting will inspire many of our online readers to join the Atlantic [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
In this vibrant, literary city, yet another local author is about to make the scene: Jenny Gardiner’s novel, Sleeping with Ward Cleaver, is now available for pre-order at Amazon and will be hitting store shelves around the end of this month. She will be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book on a panel [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Nice profile of local author James Collins in the New York Times. Some interesting tidbits: Mr. Collins, who will be 50 this spring, received an advance just shy of half a million dollars from Little, Brown for the book “Beginner’s Greek.” “The line that really caught on around here is that Peter is more Cary [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Posted on January 20, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The recording of James Collins’ presentation at the New Dominion Bookshop last Tuesday has been edited and posted at the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. Click to hear James Collins read from his first novel, Beginner’s Greek. Again, many thanks to Sean Tubbs and to the good people at New Dominion!
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