NewsAAPI Recommended Reading
Last summer, With Good Reason staff gathered a list of summer reading recommendations by Asian American and Pacific Islander writers from guests. We’re sharing it now in recognition of May as #AAPIHeritageMonth.
EventA Celebration of Lee Smith
On May 14, join the Buchanan County Public Library to celebrate the dedication of a sign honoring the New York Times Bestselling author Lee Smith. The dedication will begin at …
EventThe Charlottesville Reading Series: Aran Donovan and Anna Caritj
After a two-year hiatus, the Charlottesville Reading Series will return to New Dominion Bookshop this April! Join us for our kickoff event, featuring poet Aran Donovan and fiction writer Anna Caritj. This …
NewsSouthern Landscapes: Real and Imagined
Authors Ralph Eubanks (A Place Like Mississippi), Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (My Monticello), and Imani Perry (South to America) take center stage at this Festival headliner event to discuss the storied …
NewsTransformative Desire: Literary Fiction
Alex DiFrancesco (Transmutation), Lindsay Merbaum (The Gold Persimmon), and Morgan Thomas (Manywhere) discuss their genre-defying fiction, populated by characters who grapple with ideas of identity, desire, free will, transformation, and …
NewsNBF Presents: An Afternoon with the National Book Awards
2021 National Book Award–honored authors Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets, Finalist, Fiction), Amber McBride (Me (Moth), Finalist, Young People’s Literature), and Jason Mott (Hell of a Book, Winner, Fiction) join us for …
NewsWhat We Call Family: Literary Fiction
Dariel Suarez (The Playwright’s House), Jessie van Eerden (Call It Horses), and Kyle Lucia Wu (Win Me Something) delve into the nuances and implications of family, examining these relationships as …
NewsJMRL Same Page Community Read: We Are Not Free with Traci Chee
Traci Chee (We Are Not Free) discusses her acclaimed novel for young readers, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are …
NewsModern Love: Romance Fiction
Verity Lowell (Meet Me in Madrid) and Jean Meltzer (The Matzah Ball) explore romance at the crossroads of tradition, convention, and modernity, taking readers to Madrid and a Matzah Ball …
NewsThe Wrong End of the Telescope with Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine (The Wrong End of the Telescope) discusses his latest novel, a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. In …
NewsA Thousand Steps into Night with Traci Chee
Traci Chee (A Thousand Steps into Night) discusses her new YA fantasy novel, a Japanese-influenced fantasy brimming with demons, adventure, and plans gone awry. In conversation with Emma Ito. Watch …
NewsMagic & Mythical: YA Fantasy
Deborah Falaye (Blood Scion), TJ Klune (Flash Fire), and Anna-Marie McLemore (Lakelore) explore the challenges of growing up amidst the magical and extraordinary circumstances of fantastical worlds. Whether superpowers, mythological …
