Center for the Book

The Center for the Book’s vision is that every Virginian will have access to books and reading and to the power that books and reading provide to shape and inform personal and civic life.

As an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the VFH Center for the Book works within a network of 50 state-center affiliates to promote books, reading, literacy, and the literary life of Virginia.

Programs


Virginia Festival of the Book


Virginia Arts of the Book Center

Audrey Wood, LAL National Winner
Letters About Literature

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And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life Book Cover

And So It Goes

Kurt Vonnegut is not the man his readers believed him to be.
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Bible Babel

Kristin Swenson makes sense of the most talked about book of all time.
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Harry Belafonte & Julian Bond

Screening at the Paramount Theater of the recent HBO documentary Sing Your Song followed by a discussion with Harry Belafonte and Julian Bond.

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Recent VFH Fellow on the Daily Show

Author and recent VFH Fellow Elizabeth Dowling Taylor tells Jon Stewart the story of Paul Jennings, one of James Madison's slaves who ultimately purchased his own freedom.