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I almost missed Library Card Sign-Up Month! Probably because I’ve had my library card since the very minute I moved to Charlottesville and I use it frequently. But what about you? “The Smartest Card. Get it. Use it. @ your library” September is Library Card Sign-up Month. Observed since 1987, this is a time when [...]
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Some good topics for discussion coming up in our community: Creative Conversations September 09, 2008 · PCA Updates PCA is launching a new series called Creative Conversations, a forum for arts-related idea exchange and collaboration. The goal of the program is to bring arts organizations, artists, arts educators, and community leaders together in person to [...]
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I have no idea why Howard Junker, soon to be retiring editor of ZYZZYVA, has it in for Ted Genoways, editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. I do know there’s no love lost on either side. Perhaps it’s a case of literary politics being so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small? For literature’s sake, [...]
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John Warner, Chief Creative Czar of TOW Books, a publishing imprint dedicated to producing “funny books for people with good senses of humor,” unveiled the struggling imprint’s latest initiative that Warner promised will revolutionize the entire publishing industry. “We’re giving the books away for free,” he announced in a statement on the TOW Books site. [...]
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