Tomorrow’s NYTBR, today

The Sunday New York Times Book Review section is posted on Saturdays, thank goodness. Nothing enlivens a long Saturday afternoon like a skim through the Grey Lady’s reviews. This week, Beginner’s Greek receives a love letter from reviewer James Kaplan. There is also a review of The Commoner, a new novel about the Japanese Imperial [...]

VaBook: Now with more blogging!

What a thrill! Last week I received an email from Trey Mitchell, webmaestro of the Book Festival site, inviting CvilleWords to be one of the Festival’s featured blogs. You can bet I jumped on the chance! I’ll be in good company, too — I know Wistar is participating, and I’ve heard there will be more [...]

“Where we can read, we don’t”

Call it the paradox of the book. Where we can read, where we should read, even in a place where reading might address the exact problem being battled and where there is little else to do but read, we don’t. Randy Saltzman wrote these words after a dispiriting spell in the Charlottesville juvenile court waiting [...]

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