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Copy, paste: Jaquith catches best-selling plagiarist

photophile-waldo-bBlogger and digital plagiarism watchdog Waldo Jaquith. FILE PHOTO BY HOOK STAFF Put a blog in Waldo Jaquith's hands, even a literary magazine's blog, and there's no telling what can happen. Last week, the Virginia Quarterly Review employee called out Wired editor and best-selling author Chris (...)

Vintage tale: ‘Billionaire Vinegar’ author visits Monticello

news-bookThe Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine tells the story of the controversy surrounding a bottle of wine  thought to be owned by Thomas Jefferson. PUBLICITY PHOTO In September 2007, an article in the New Yorker ["The Jefferson Bottles," by Patrick Radden (...)

Let them eat pie

news-piebookUmmmm, pie. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Coconut cream. French apple. Peanut butter. Chocolate chess. To leaf through Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies is to salivate. Sating such desires used to require a 30-minute or so jaunt over to Staunton to Mrs. Rowe's Restaurant and Bakery. The new book by (...)

Local author recognized at New York Book Festival

books-hummel-bAuthor Heather Hummel. PHOTO BY DOUG ELLIS Local author Heather Hummel just won first honorable mention at the New York Book Festival in the Romance Category for her book Though Hazel Eyes, a story about an English teacher working with troubled students, dealing with a painful past, and discovering (...)

Local author Pulitzer finalist

photophile-hailesSpeaking of Pulitzers...local author Arthur Herman (seen here at a Play On! toga party at the Frank Ix building) was a finalist in general non-fiction for his book, Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, which the judges called an "authoritative, deeply (...)

Hemings book wins Pulitzer

news-hemmingsLast November, author Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for non-fiction for her groundbreaking study of Sally Hemings and three generations of her extended family The Hemingses of Monticello. On Monday, Gordon-Reed took home the Pulitzer in history for the book, which the judges called (...)

  • Copy, paste: Jaquith catches best-selling plagiarist
  • Vintage tale: ‘Billionaire Vinegar’ author visits Monticello
  • Let them eat pie
  • Local author recognized at New York Book Festival
  • Local author Pulitzer finalist
  • Hemings book wins Pulitzer
Happenings

Green Valley Book Fair

June 27, 2009 9:00 am to July 12, 2009 5:00 pm

A discount book outlet store located between Harrisonburg and Staunton featuring over 500,000 new books at bargain prices. Check it out!

Joanna Beth Tweedy at New Dominion

July 16, 2009 12:15 pm

jbtAuthor Joanna Beth Tweedy will discuss her debut novel The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas, the story of sisters Arkansas (Sass) and Texas MacTerptin and their adventures growing up in Appalachia and the Ozarks.

Joanna Beth Tweedy has conjured up a world as familiar as childhood memories and as strange as the Sahara. The prose crackles like a splash of water on a hot skillet and there’s a surprise on every page.” — Robert Hellenga

Thursday, July 16, at 12:15pm. New Dominion Bookshop on the Mall.

Peter Selgin at New Dominion

July 17, 2009 12:15 pm

georgeAuthor and artists Peter Selgin discusses his book Life Goes to the Movies, which one reader said is an “irresistible account of a passionate friendship between two young men, both star-struck by art. Selgin’s vivid account of New York in the 1970s, his richly complex characters, his encyclopedic knowledge of film and his sense of how small the gap is between good luck and bad make this an utterly absorbing novel. ”

Peter Selgin’s first book of short stories, Drowning Lessons won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award.

Friday, July 17 at 12:15pm. New Dominion Bookshop on the Downtown Mall.

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