Remember local Grammy Award-winner Christopher King? How about famous comic artist R. Crumb? The two recently met (with Charmagne Dutton in between) after Crumb spoke about his latest opus, an illustrated Book of Genesis, in Richmond. (reader-submitted (...)
Charlottesville writers dominated in poetry at the 12th Library of Virginia awards October 17 in Richmond. UVA English prof Lisa Russ Spaar won the poetry prize for Satin Cash, her fourth collection. The Weinstein Poetry award went to Charles Wright and Eleanor Ross Taylor.
Although not a local, (...)
UVA English prof/acclaimed writer Deborah Eisenberg is one of 24 people chosen for the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, which comes with a no-strings-attached $500,000. The New York Times predicted her 2006 short fiction collection, Twilight of the Superheroes, would "establish her as one of the most (...)
Charlottesvillian Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com's Supreme Court chronicler, is using her nearly month-long paid sabbatical to try her hand at an entirely different genre-- chick lit. Can she finish her entire first novel by October 1-- just three weeks away? Chapters-- and Lithwick's ongoing frame of (...)
People flipping out about the swine flu, H1N1, and the worry that getting vaccinated might mean suffering from Gullain-Barré Syndrome might be calmed by reading this 2001 book by New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, whose research disputes the popular notion that one had anything to do with the other (...)
Death by raptor? Andy Straka has a new thriller out.
FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Earlysville falconer/Shamus Award-winning writer Andy Straka has a new mystery ready for release September 1, the fourth in his Frank Pavlicek series.
Kitty Thriller takes Virginia-based falconer/P.I. Pavlicek to New (...)
Former Charlottesville resident and author, Melanie G. Snyder, will speak about the criminal justice system and her new book, Grace Goes to Prison, at A Dialogue on Crime and Justice, to be hosted at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 100 Alderman Road, on Monday, November 9 at 7pm. This event is free and open to the public.
The Virginia Arts of the Book Center holds its annual “Raucous Auction,” featuring both live and silent auctions. Both works of art and other goods are up for grabs in support of the VABC. Also, a new VABC group project, “Infinite Stakes: A Contemporary Cartomancy Deck” will be unveiled. 977 Second St. SE in the IX Complex. For more information, contact Kevin McFadden at kmcfadden@virginia.edu.
