
SHELF LIFE—Living Queer History with Samantha Rosenthal
Samantha Rosenthal discusses Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City and the LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, that the book documents and celebrates. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, …

AAPI 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.

Garden Clubs Make History
Join Virginia Humanities Fellow Meredith Henne Baker for a free, public Garden Week discussion at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Garden Week showcases garden club women’s preservation and beautification …

Letter to a Young Female Physician with Dr. Suzanne Koven
It’s 2022. Why haven’t women achieved more equity in medicine, or in other professions? When veteran physician and writer Dr. Suzanne Koven toured the country after the publication of her …

Southern 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 …

The Emotional Pull of Home
Join authors Joanna Eleftheriou (This Way Back), Henry Hoke (Sticker), and Jennifer Niesslein (Dreadful Sorry) as they share their place-centered essays and memoirs, addressing questions of class, history, family, gender, …

Halfway Home: A Conversation with Reuben Jonathan Miller
Reuben Jonathan Miller (Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration) discusses his work studying mass incarceration, including life after incarceration, sharing the stories of the men, women, …

Lives of the Unfree: Activism and Survival
Authors Justene Hill Edwards (Unfree Markets: The Slaves Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina) and Vanessa M. Holden (Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat …

Seeing Trees, Saving the Great Forests
Forests scientists and preservationists Meg Lowman (Arbornaut) and John W. Reid (Ever Green) share their work and experience traveling and studying the great forests of the world, including the immediate …

Ushering in the New Normal, the Virginia Festival of the Book Goes Hybrid
The Virginia Festival of the Book has long been one of Virginia Humanities’ most popular events, so this time of year is always hectic for Center for the Book staff. Now, after two years of virtual programming due to the COVID pandemic that has for many been the worst of times, the Virginia Festival of the Book will return to in-person programming—mostly. With a selection of virtual events, the 2022 Festival of the Book is going hybrid.

Best of 2021 at VaBook2022
In anticipation of the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we scoured the “Best of 2021” reading lists of awards, recognitions, and assorted praise for authors and books published in …

SHELF LIFE—The Silent Shore with Charles L. Chavis, Jr.
In partnership with the Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Book at Virginia Humanities presents Charles L. Chavis, Jr. (The Silent Shore: The …