Take the time you were going to spend reading Freedom to instead watch this video review of Freedom by Ron Charles. BRILLIANT!!
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links for 2010-08-31
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"I was ready to see for myself what all the fuss was about… except, as I quickly discovered just a few pages into the first volume, the Millennium trilogy is the worst batch of fiction to reach #1 on the bestseller lists since—well, I don’t know how long it’s been. If you’ve known me for a long time, you know that I don’t think much of Dan Brown as a prose stylist, so when I say that Stieg Larsson isn’t even remotely as good a writer as Dan Brown, you have some sense of exactly how bad I think he is."
Okay, so it's NOT just me.
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'The winter issue of the award winning Virginia Quarterly Review was abruptly canceled after staff members removed their names from the masthead while an investigation procedes into accusations that a top editor committed suicide as a result of workplace bullying. "There will be no winter issue," Carol Wood, spokeswoman for the University of Virginia, where the journal is published, said in an email. "We felt it was important for all members of VQR to take some much-needed leave while the internal review is underway."'
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links for 2010-08-30
Posted on August 30, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"Jackson Landers, the 32-year-old local man who garnered a writeup in the New York Times for his classes that offer a link between hunting and the local food movement, says that he is working on a pilot for Animal Planet, tentatively called "Eating Aliens." The show would follow Landers as he travels the world finding creative ways to hunt and, with the help of a chef, eat invasive species. (Zebra mussel stew, anyone?) Landers' first book, A Locavore's Guide to Deer Hunting, will be out in 2011."
Yet another local author/tv star!
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"A Shortlist of What Surprised Me Upon My Third Reading of The Great Gatsby"
Always something new here.
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"Hitchens is and has always been the kind of writer who, when considered, seems to demand that one take sides – pro, con, either way works fine, provided there’s no squeamishness or side-shuffling, moral or otherwise."
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links for 2010-08-28
Posted on August 28, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"ScriptDC is the premiere conference for Mid-Atlantic writers and filmmakers to achieve their creative dreams by connecting them with accomplished teachers, consultants and industry professionals."
October 15-17, near the Gallery Place Metro
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"Checking in with Browning Porter: Poet, storyteller, musician and graphic designer"
Great interview, great guy! check it out.
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links for 2010-08-27
Posted on August 27, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"Most 6-year-olds are reading Dr. Seuss and moving on to Harry Potter. Leo Hunter isn't just reading books, he's also writing them. Strategic Book Publishing has signed a 23-book deal with the 6-year-old UK native."
Hey, don't laugh. I bet they're good. Especially numbers 12-15. I heard he was really on a roll with those.
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Lena McNicholas, “Patchwork,” New Dominion Bookshop Sept. 9
Posted on August 27, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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Coming to New Dominion Bookshop:
Reading, Discussion, and Book-signing
Thursday, September 9, 2010, at 12:15 PM
Patchwork: Pieces of Appalachia
by Lena Cantrell McNicholas
Lena Cantrell McNicholas loves Southwest Virginia. In her first book, Patchwork—Pieces of Appalachia, she recalls the small Appalachian town of her childhood and the eclectic characters within it. She writes about her memories in a series of poems, stories and vignettes.
Lee Smith, author of Oral History and Fair and Tender Ladies, said, “This fine collection … takes us through Lena’s exciting life of love, adventure, devastating loss, high principles and new beginnings, finally back to her beloved southwest Virginia and the complexities of life alone—all of this told with severe honesty and sweet lyrical grace. Lena knows who she is and where she comes from, and she knows how to tell a good story, too. All you have to do is sit back and listen.”
Elizabeth Doyle Solomon, author of Seasons, says that “McNicholas has written a book from her heart, for the hearts of us all.… Patchwork is a book for today that carries those precious pieces of yesterdays, a book to pass down to the inheritors of tomorrows.”
Lena McNicholas has received numerous awards for her original work and was Poet of the Month for A Magazine December. She is an active member of the Appalachian Poets and Writers, the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, Inc., and the Poetry Society of Virginia.
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Life With Objects
Posted on August 26, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Combine catchy web design with great storytelling, and you get Life With Objects –
Objects: Those things in the backgrounds of our pictures, cluttering our bookshelves and stuffed in drawers. We’re collecting their stories here—to celebrate and remember the strange intimacies of life with ordinary objects. Tell us a good story and we’ll make sure everyone else enjoys it too.
The best part is that you can get in on it, too. Check out their submission guidelines. And follow them on Twitter!
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links for 2010-08-25
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"First District Republican incumbent Rob Wittman is still not responding to requests to schedule debates with Democratic challenger Krystal Ball."
"Krystal Ball."
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"Are you studying marketing or interested in the field? WriterHouse is looking for a Marketing Intern for this fall and possibly beyond."
Duties and contact info listed at the site.
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links for 2010-08-24
Posted on August 24, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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Prime Decimals Day! Prime magazine updates its site with a story, some poetry, and some "flash non-fiction."
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links for 2010-08-23
Posted on August 23, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"A good phrase was offered by Kathy Williams, the teacher who invited Dr. Hazen to deal with her students’ inferiority complex. She quoted her 93-year-old grandmother’s version of “cool!” “Grandma Glenna always says, ‘Forever more!’ ” “Forever more!” she shouted, offering the youngsters something old that sounded new."
Well, forever more! I can't tell you how many times I've heard that expression.
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links for 2010-08-21
Posted on August 21, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
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"The nonprofit E-Books for Troops will help you share your used Kindle with our troops overseas–building a supply chain to provide eBooks and eReaders for soldiers. Here's more about the program: "While the soldier of yesteryear could ill afford to carry more than two to three books, today a solider with a single e-book reader has the potential to individually transport a library of 1500 books!"
I like.
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BookBalloon’s September reading club selection: Lolly Willowes
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
BookBalloon September Reading Club Selection:
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Silvia Townsend Warner
“This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead.” — John Updike
Discussion of Lolly Willowes begins September 1. Forum registration is free.
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VABC Moving Sale Saturday
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
From the VABC,
We are two days away from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center’s Moving Sale…1-5PM Saturday, August 21. Now even more interesting items have been added online (see pics):
http://virginiabookarts.org/2010/08/the-vabc-is-moving/Come to make an offer and haul it away that day. The surplus auction starts at 1:30PM…selected furniture, paper, marbled paper, cloth, ephemera, printing equipment, shelves, type, and type cases must go. We’ll sell other items all day til 5PM. Bring cash or check, please…this will help us move!
Where is the VABC headed?
We are pleased to announce we are moving into a newly revamped space where the old Art Box used to be in the Ivy Shopping Center (Foods of All Nations). Creative Framing/The Art Box has moved upstairs, and the VABC is entering into a partnership that we anticipate will result in more classes in their new downstairs gallery/classroom setting (Art on Ivy).
Renovations are ongoing, but we hope to be up and running for VABC classes in September! We’ll announce more details later, but wanted our friends to know.
Thanks always for your support,
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