JMRL Wins BIG READ Grant

The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of only 75 not-for-profits  to receive a $5,000 grant to participate in THE BIG READ. The book selected by JMRL is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.   Programming for THE BIG READ  will be held during March and April [...]

“The Overloaded Liberal” at WriterHouse, Sunday, Sept. 19

Later this month at WriterHouse: Mixing Journalism with Memoir: A Literary Salon with Fran Hawthorne September 19 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm WriterHouse, 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville Fran Hawthorne, award-winning author of The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism (Beacon Press, 2010), will talk about making the [...]

James River Writers Conference: Early Bird registration is ending

Re-posting here an email I received from James River Writers about this year’s conference. Will I see you there? Early Bird Registration for Conference 2010 ends at 11:59pm on August 31 Pitch NYC agents and editors. Improve your craft. Meet fellow writers. Register online today to save on registration fees, or postmark your registration by [...]

Lena McNicholas, “Patchwork,” New Dominion Bookshop Sept. 9

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 [...]

Donate art to help the Haven

It’s an art show to raise funds for The Haven, and — this is rare — writers are included! The Haven: There’s No Place Like Home is a benefit to raise money for The Haven at First & Market. The Haven at First & Market is a safe and welcoming place for the homeless and [...]

VABC Moving Sale Saturday

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, [...]

Tickets for 2010 Words & Wine WriterHouse Fundraiser now available

Tickets for the 2010 Words & Wine WriterHouse Fundraiser are now available! On Sunday, October 24, 2010, Keswick Vineyards will host the first annual Words and Wine event, a fundraiser for WriterHouse.  Tickets are now available!  Admission includes wine tasting, complimentary wine glass, light hors d’oeuvres, and one raffle ticket towards a number of prizes generously donated from local [...]

Correction: The Great Typo Hunt coming to New Dominion

Reading, Discussion, and Book-signing by authors Deck and Herson at New Dominion Bookshop TUESDAY, August 24 at 12:15 PM The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson A grammarian’s gonzo road trip across a national landscape pockmarked with poor punctuation, the book [...]

Coming up at WriterHouse: New Gilmore book, Words & Wine

A couple of upcoming events at WriterHouse to put on your calendar: »Susan Gregg Gilmore—After the Debut: The Second Novel. Susan will be back on Sunday, August 22 to discuss her second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, answer questions about the publishing process and share insights into the journey from debut novel to [...]

VABC needs help, promises opportunities to ogle

From Virginia Arts of the Book: Friends of VABC, We’re moving…and we need help! Could you join us this Saturday 1-5PM (or any time there in, even an hour will help) to do the following: -distribute standing lead type (this is a great way to learn how to deal with a case) -pack boxes with [...]

Library research, Part Deux

Here, in plain text, are three entries from the University of Virginia’s online library catalog: 3. Fortune Format Journal/Magazine Location Multiple locations Availability check availability 4. Fortune Format Journal/Magazine Location Multiple locations Availability check availability 5. Fortune Format Journal/Magazine; Book Location Multiple locations Availability check availability Can you tell which one I should click on [...]

xkcd nails it again

Yes. YESSSS! And may I add — this holds true for pages within the site. UVA Library, I’m looking at YOU!

Emma Rathbone at New Dominion Thursday, August 12

At New Dominion Bookshop: Emma Rathbone will present selections from her new coming-of-age novel The Patterns of Paper Monsters Thursday, August 12 at 5:30 PM Jacob Higgins’s teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he’s indifferent to school and his friends—though [...]

Furious Love at New Dominion Thursday, August 5

New Dominion Bookshop will host Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger who will present selections from their new biography Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood [...]

Sign the Right to Literacy Declaration

From the Jefferson Madison Regional Library: Right to Literacy Declaration Join Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle and Mayor Dave Norris in signing the Right to Literacy Scroll on Tuesday, July 20th at 10am. The scroll was authored at the first ever Right to Literacy Convention  on June 13, 2009. At the convention, which was modeled after [...]