July 17, 2009 12:15 pm
Author 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.
Blogger and digital plagiarism watchdog Waldo Jaquith.
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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 (...)
The 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.
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In September 2007, an article in the New Yorker ["The Jefferson Bottles," by Patrick Radden (...)
Author Heather Hummel.
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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 (...)
Speaking 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 (...)
Last 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 (...)
