NewsOrdinary Girls
In this webinar, recorded May 19 2020, author Jaquira Díaz discusses her memoir, Ordinary Girls with Sharon Harrigan. “Every once in a while, a truly electric debut memoir comes along, …
NewsThe Mindfulness Room
In this webinar, recorded May 12 2020, Amanda Lynch, author of The Mindfulness Room, and Mack McLellan, Jr., talk about self-care, mindfulness, and restorative justice—for children and adults alike. “Guided …
NewsA Good Provider is One Who Leaves
In this webinar recorded on May 7 2020, author Jason DeParle discusses his newest book, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: Family and Migration in the 21st Century, with …
NewsCool Town
In this webinar, recorded April 28, 2020, author Grace Hale discusses her newest book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, with Karl Hagstrom Miller. …
NewsThe Third Rainbow Girl
In this webinar Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her acclaimed debut nonfiction book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, in conversation with Allison Wright. …
EventLulu Miller Virtual Book Launch Party
We were thrilled to hear that the book Lulu Miller worked on while a residential fellow with us is launching on Tuesday April 14th. Since we’re all quarantined at home, …
EventCanceled: More Lasting Than Bronze
Word and Art as Grassroots Monuments Attend this round table talk to hear Paul Farber (Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia), conceptual visual artist Veronica Jackson, and Robert Schultz (War …
NewsThe Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
By Nora Pehrson Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese-born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always …
NewsEliza! Eliza!
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A …
NewsSea Change
As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to preserve the island and why that’s important.
NewsIn Pursuit of Truth
On March 24, 2018, during the twenty-fourth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, 2017 National Book Awards finalists Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) …
NewsLife for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair
David Bearinger remembers Frances Latimer and the important contribution she made to telling the story of African Americans on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
