Posted on February 24, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Jennifer Niesslein is the Charlottesville author of Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help — and Back and one of the founders of Brain, Child magazine. She’ll also be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book. In the meantime, Niesslein is staying busy writing features for the Sunday Post [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
March 1 brings us the kickoff of this year’s Big Read: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. For more information and resources on the Big Read, see J-MRL’s web site. And of course, I’ll be reading right along with you. Saturday’s events on the Downtown Mall include the announcement of the winner of J-MRL’s [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
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 [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
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 [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
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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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
…and a hammock and I could live here in this little stairwell most comfortably. Thanks for the tip to Reader Dan, the furniture-moving man!
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
RU sent us this announcement: The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced today (Thursday 21 February) a one-off award – The Best of the Booker – to celebrate the prestigious literary prize’s 40th anniversary. The Best of the Booker will honour the best overall novel to have won the prize since it was first awarded [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Living Education Center High School Invites you to Our Spring Open House! Meet Staff, Teachers, Parents and Students! Find out more about our High School Program! Learn about our NEW HOME for 2008-09! Join us for a discussion on “What is High School Education For?” Tuesday, February 26, 2008 LEC Main Space – #107 [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
One of the effects of global warming is that spring fever arrives just a little earlier each year. I’ve been doing some housekeeping and redecorating here at Chez CvilleWords. Let me know what you think of the redesign (new theme courtesy of WordPress.com, new header courtesy of the fertile talents of Mr. Glass). Love it? [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Here at last is the list of books that are going to be duking it out in The Morning News’ 2008 Tournament of Books. I have read exactly one of them. But the tournament doesn’t start until March 8, fortunately, and Powell’s is offering a 30% discount off each book on the list if you [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
And in some cases, I do mean “watch out.” These are all announcements from Publishers Lunch, which can now be seen in full-color html as email dies its sad lingering death. First off, something from the Old Dominion: Peter Neofotis’s CONCORD, VIRGINIA, a Southern gothic novella concerning the residents of a fictional town in the [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Titlepage.tv will feature online shows about books and authors. From their web site: Dear Reader, I’m writing to thank you for your interest in Titlepage, and to let you know what to expect when the first episode goes up on our site on 3.3.08. Our guests on that initial show will include Richard Price, [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Here’s the kind of letter you love to get from a literary journal: Dear Christina Strick, Thank you for your submission to the Delmarva Review. I’m pleased to let you know that your short story “Gracie” was accepted for publication in the next issue of Delmarva Review…. Christy is a member of our critique group. The [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
William Lee Miller, Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center, will be reading from his latest book, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, this Thursday at the New Dominion Bookshop. Dr. Miller is receiving excellent coverage of his new book: Audio of his talk at the Miller Center Live chat scheduled for [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
New Dominion Bookshop will host Andy Straka for a discussion and a book-signing of his new novel, Record of Wrongs, on Thursday, February 28 at 5:30 pm Andy will be introduced at the reading by Nancy Damon, Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book. Freed from prison when a new round of DNA [...]
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