Lisa Williams and Domnica Radulescu at New Dominion

Two Readings/Book Signings at New Dominion Bookshop: Wednesday, October 1 at 5:30 PM: Lisa Williams, Woman Reading to the Sea Thursday, October 2 at 5:30 PM: Domnica Radulescu, Train to Trieste New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing by Lisa Williams who will present selections from her new book of poetry, Woman Reading [...]

Who will you find? Tracing your family tree at J-MRL

From the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: Learn to use HeritageQuest for your genealogical sleuthing. The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will provide two training sessions on how to use HeritageQuest which is a collection of research materials for doing genealogy research. The sessions will be Friday Oct 31, 9:30 am at the Central Library and Saturday Nov 1, [...]

links for 2008-09-19

Language Log » R "To help bloggers everywhere celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day, in keeping with our annual tradition, we present the Corsair Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates…" 10 Books Not To Read Before You Die – Times Online "9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien The best I can say about [...]

WriterHouse on TV!

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WriterHouse makes the news!

From NBC29: You may see writers around Charlottesville typing away at a coffeehouse or in the corner of a bookstore. But a group of writers have created a place of their own so they can write connect and learn from each other. From classes to workshops to just a quiet place to think and create, [...]

Upcoming book tours, courtesy of BookTour

Have I mentioned BookTour here before? It’s a handy site that lets you find upcoming book tours in your area. Or, you can look up your favorite author and see where he or she is going to be appearing. I get a weekly update from the site in my email: Here are the details, from [...]

links for 2008-09-17

New York Slideshows – A Cartoon Review of Philip Roth's 25th Novel – Village Voice "A Cartoon Review of Philip Roth's 25th Novel" — I love it! Who Would Like To Read? "Whether you are a beginning writer, first time published author, or in between, you will give a reading at some point in your [...]

links for 2008-09-16

Welcome to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance :: STARS 'The Southern Traveling Authors Registration Service-STARS-is a specialized "speakers bureau" of sorts created by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and designed to build relationships between authors and independent booksellers. Authors want to give readings at bookstores. Bookstores are often looking for authors for events. But unless [...]

C-Ville: Reviews – An old war from a new Grisham

Behold this week’s C-Ville, In which I review Bedlam South by Mark Grisham and David Donaldson: An old war from a new Grisham C-Ville: Reviews – An old war from a new Grisham.

The Best American Poetry 2008, September 17 at The Bridge

A Public Reading & Signing | Wednesday, Sept 17th 8pm This public reading and signing event will showcase works collected by Series Editor David Lehman and guest editor Charles Wright. Participating Contributors include poets John Casteen, Lisa Russ Sparr and Debra Nystrom. Poets will read from their own works and also selections from this years [...]

Reminder: James River Writers Conference

The James River Writers Conference is coming up! Getting It Write Friday and Saturday, October 10 and 11, 2008 at the Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street, Richmond Featuring … David Baldacci Adriana Trigiani Diane Mott Davidson Claudia Emerson Kate Jacobs Kirk Ellis Shannon Ravenel Chuck Adams Colin Fox

Teen Poetry Contest at J-MRL

From the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: TEEN POETRY CONTEST All Branches Monday, September 29-Saturday, October 25. Are you a teen who’s into writing poetry? Enter our Teen Poetry Contest to celebrate Teen Read Week! Three winners will be chosen, with prizes to be awarded, and the opportunity for the winners to be entered into another teen [...]

Ted Genoways at New Dominion Bookshop September 25

New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing by Ted Genoways, who will present selections from his book of poems, Anna, Washing Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 5:30 PM Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is [...]

links for 2008-09-15

Maud Newton: Blog — A Q&A with Kathleen Kent about the “Queen of Hell” "Her first novel, The Heretic’s Daughter, evokes the fears, diseases, and petty grudges of the witch trials era with an eerie, visceral concreteness. The book was inspired by Kent’s ancestor, Martha Carrier, who was jailed, tried, found to be a witch, [...]

David Foster Wallace, Suicide, and Depression

I was sad to hear that David Foster Wallace took his own life. This portion of his obituary in today’s New York Times breaks my heart: His father said Sunday that Mr. Wallace had been taking medication for depression for 20 years and that it had allowed his son to be productive. It was something [...]

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