VCCA panel at Book Festival

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

From Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: VCCA Sponsors VA Book Panel, March 28 On the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the VCCA and Second Street Gallery present three practitioners and an astute observer of art and conflict to reflect on how artists address the most pressing social and political issues. “Depravity, Upheaval [...]

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Book Festival starts tomorrow!

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Finally! I will be at the opening ceremony tomorrow at noon, at Central Library, and attending and recording several sessions throughout the week. Don’t forget about the Science Writing panel. See you there!

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American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan FreinkelRead more about this book… As soon as you try to tell the story of a single organism, you run into trouble. No creature lives in isolation; all living beings exist inextricably in a network of relationships and dependencies. Meteorologists joke that [...]

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Book Fest preview by Nancy Damon

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Nancy Damon, Executive Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, was on the Coy Barefoot Show last week to preview the Festival. Listen here. The Book Festival schedule is on line, or you can pick up a copy of today’s Daily Progress for a printed schedule. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: [...]

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Human Smoke reviewed by Colm Toibin

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Next week, Colm Toibin will be appearing with Nathan Englander at the Wayward Sons session at the Virginia Festival of the Book. You can get a preview of Toibin’s style in this NYT review of Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke. Toibin considers Human Smoke more worthy of a respectful reading than did NYT reviewer William Grimes, [...]

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Q & A with Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream author Jennifer Ackerman

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer AckermanRead more about this book… The three authors on the Science Writing panel at next week’s Virginia Festival of the Book have a theme in common: Life cycles. Susan Freinkel writes about the cycles of growth, maturity, and death in [...]

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Beginner’s Greek review in C-VILLE Weekly

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

I have a review of Beginner’s Greek by James Collins over at the C-VILLE Weekly. Hope you’ll take a minute or two to read it; feel free to come back here to leave your comments. Collins will be speaking at the Virginia Festival of the Book next week and can be heard via podcast here. [...]

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Human Smoke Roundtable

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

It’s a resounding broadside against critics who think literary blogging is just a bunch of know-nothings with computers in a basement in Terre Haute: Edward Champion brings us The Human Smoke Roundtable. Human Smoke is a brand new title from Nicholson Baker which is proving to be a “500-page Rorschach test” for reviewers: LA Times: [...]

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Virginia Festival of the Book highlights

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Some highlights from the most recent email from the Book Festival’s Associate Program Director, Kevin McFadden. For more information, see the Virginia Festival of the Book, or subscribe to email updates. I. Walter Mosley: Inspiration to Write That Book VABook! 2008 Headliner Walter Mosley has written 29 books across many genres: novels, thrillers, essays, sci-fi, [...]

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Andy Straka in the Hotseat

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Andy Straka takes his turn in The Hook’s Hotseat this week. Learn his most embarrassing moment, his favorite hangout, his 21st century creep out, and how he got that weird bruise. Straka also has a few words to say about his role in the Virginia Festival of the Book: A literary town like Charlottesville, with [...]

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Books on the Horizon

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Michael Sims gives us a head’s-up on a new book coming out during the next year from Penguin, tentatively titled, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Thieves: Confidence Tricksters, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes, edited with critical introduction by Michael Sims. Thieves will include “Arsene Lupin in Prison,” by Maurice Leblanc, [...]

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links for 2008-03-11

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Criminalizing Home Schoolers – TIME Colm Toibin Profile of Va. Festival of the Book guest

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Q & A with Michael Sims, author of Apollo’s Fire

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

We live on a rotating planet: This fact is so fundamental to human existence that our earliest stories were created to explain the journey of the sun, moon, and stars through the sky. According to Michael Sims, author of Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, language itself reveals this central metaphor [...]

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Andy Straka discusses Record of Wrongs at New Dominion Bookshop

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Charlottesville Podcasting Network has posted a recording of Andy Straka‘s appearance at New Dominion Bookshop on February 28. Straka gave a very interesting talk that focused largely on the current state of DNA exonerations, the topic of his latest novel, Record of Wrongs . I spotted some other local authors in the audience, as well [...]

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Renew your metaphors at the Festival of the Book

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

I can’t even remember where or how I first heard of Archy and Mehitabel, the delightful creations of newspaperman Don Marquis. I was very young at the time, too young, I think, even to realize that the pieces were already 30 years out of date when I came across them. But I remember the spunky [...]

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