Literary Arts

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Founding feminists

Makers. Mistresses. Proto-feminists. Those are a just a few of the titles reserved for the artists represented in The...

Spreading the words

Every March thousands gather in Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book, now in its 22nd year, to...

Listening with heart

For a decade, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Jefferson-Madison Regional Library a grant to...

Drink to that

By boasting a statistically impossible number of local bookstores and authors, it’s clear that Charlottesville is a...

The mouths of monsters

Charlottesville native Lincoln Michel knows a thing or two about literature. A familiar face in the New York literary...

Pen pals

Charlottesville is like the Bermuda Triangle for writers: You come here, get sucked in and never leave. You can’t...

More than facts

“The thing about working for the encyclopedia is that you’re just surrounded by stories all the time. I never get...

Fathers’ love

When I think of my father, I think of clipping down the Brooklyn Promenade, trying to match my 10-year-old legs to...

Fiction contest alert!

Deadline extended to noon on Wednesday, June 17! Fiction writers, fire up your laptops (or sharpen your pencils, if...

Everything old is new again

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Walking through the University grounds toward a meeting with...