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Virginia Folklife | Arts

Earl White – Folklife Fieldnotes Episode 3

Earl White is a fiddler, founding member of the Green Grass Cloggers, and leader of the Earl White Stringband. Produced in partnership with WMRA.

Stories | Folkways, Music
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

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 …

Stories | Health, Non-Fiction, Women
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With Good Reason | Cultures & Communities

Borderlands

The colonial era is usually seen as prim and proper – a time when manners were refined and marriage was sacrosanct. But that period may have been much wilder than previously thought. Liz Elizondo says in colonial Spanish Texas, love affairs didn’t just occasionally happen…they were the norm.

Stories | Folkways
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Grants | Arts

Exploring the Infinite Potential of Women in Old-Time Music

Grants coordinator Toni Doman currently spends her days at Bristol’s Birthplace of Country Music Museum sifting through content for the museum’s upcoming Women in Old-Time Music exhibit. But you can tell that she’s really a musician. Doman isn’t separate from her subjects. She is one of them.  

Stories | 20th Century, Music, Women
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Poetry for Today: Readings by Victoria Chang and Rita Dove

In partnership with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and as the closing event for the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we present poets Victoria Chang (Obit) and Rita Dove (Playlist …

Stories | Black/African American
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Making Sense of the World, Making Sense of Ourselves: Graphic Memoirs

Courtney Cook (The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces) and Laura Gao (Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American) explore how growing …

Stories | AAPI, Health, LGBTQ
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature, History

The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: A Conversation with Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy, (The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind) discusses his most recent book, a twin biography of Thomas Jefferson in retirement and of the University of Virginia in …

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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature, History

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 …

Stories | Black/African American, Fiction, Non-Fiction
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Preserving and Using Native Plants

Authors Georgann Eubanks (Saving the Wild South), and Kat Maier (Energetic Herbalism) discuss ecological stewardship and resources for medicinal plant uses from many traditions. Much more than guidebooks, these authors …

Stories | Nature
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Transformative 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 …

Stories | Fiction, LGBTQ
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Bodies in Space & Time: Identity in Sci-Fi & Speculative Fiction

Ryka Aoki (Light from Uncommon Stars), Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds), and Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout) discuss the explorations of race, gender, and identity posed in their science …

Stories | LGBTQ
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

NBF 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 …

Stories | Black/African American, Fiction, LGBTQ
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

What 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 …

Stories | Fiction
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VA Festival of the Book | Books & Literature

Thrillers for a Wild Ride

Authors Yasmin Angoe (Her Name is Knight), S.A. Cosby (Razorblade Tears), and Vera Kurian (Never Saw Me Coming) share their highly-acclaimed thrilling tales of two identities, two lost lives, and …

Stories | Black/African American
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