Virginia Festival of the Book

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The baron of baked goods

Serendipity has been a good friend to Brian Noyes, owner of the acclaimed Red Truck Bakery. With locations in...

ARTS Pick: The Public

Mighty pen: Emilio Estevez didn’t take his father’s stage surname because he wanted to honor his Spanish heritage—and...

Unheard stories

For more than two decades, the Voices of Adult Learners reading has brought a diverse range of writers and...

The courage to be earnest

When Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was growing up in Spring Valley, New York, he didn’t realize writing was a career path....

Essential voices

About 100 miles outside of Berlin, Germany, author Tim Mohr stood in a snowy field gripping an axe in his hands. He’d...

Novelist Don Winslow offers...

Crime author Don Winslow has spent nearly the past 20 of his career writing about the Mexican-American drug trade....

Writing the footnotes

Award-winning Canadian author Esi Edugyan’s latest novel, Washington Black, begins in the brutal world of a Barbados...

Movable type

It was freezing cold, slick, and raining sideways the fall night that letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. spoke...

Hitting the books with...

You can tell a lot about a man from the books he reads. C-VILLE checked in with UVA’s President-elect Jim Ryan to get...

LIVING Picks

Food & Drink Vegan cooking class Thursday, March 22 Ingrid Berger leads this class on utilizing bright and fresh...