EventJosef Beery Introduces the Franklin Press at UVA Special Collections
A Book Arts’ Online PresentationSunday, May 2, 2021, at 2:00 PM For three-and-a-half centuries everything printed in the West was produced on a simple press of a common design. The …
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EventBlack Women’s Battle for the Ballot with Evette Dionne & Martha S. Jones
Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discusses her Coretta Scott King Author Honor book with Martha …
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EventChallenging Slavery in the Courtroom: A Question of Freedom
In partnership with the Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Book at Virginia Humanities presents William G. Thomas III as he shares his …
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EventWorlds Within Words: Poetry
Hear poets Nin Andrews (The Last Orgasm), Sandra Beasley (Made to Explode), Vijay Seshadri (That Was Now, This Is Then), and Katherine E. Young (Woman Drinking Absinthe) read from their …
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NewsA Promise to Grow
Virginia Humanities & City of Promise to Publish Children’s Book Celebrating 10th & Page Neighborhood
NewsREPLAY: Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry
There are poems that stay with us, and order our steps.
NewsVoice-Overs
A call went out from the Virginia Center for the Book in April of 2020, during the early horrors of COVID-19 and before a new tide of protest against racial …
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NewsDark Times & Mercy: John Grisham and Ian Rankin in Conversation
Watch the recording of this event from the 2021 Va. Festival of the Book with John Grisham and Ian Rankin…
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NewsSeeking More than Salvation: Religious Communities
Watch the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book event with scholars Tony Tian-Ren Lin and Todne Thomas…
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NewsCoconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen with Lara Lee
Watch the recording of this event from the 2021 Va. Festival of the Book with Lara Lee and Joe Yonan…
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NewsCarol Troxell Reader: Cara Black and Three Hours in Paris
Watch the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book event with author Cara Black…
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NewsHomeland Elegies with Ayad Akhtar
Watch the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book event with Ayad Akhtar…
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