NewsQ&A with Festival Interns Melissa Zhu and Aaron Rose
Get to know Festival interns Melissa Zhu and Aaron Rose…
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NewsSizzling Summer Suspense! With Alyssa Cole and Dorothy Koomson
Alyssa Cole, author of When No One is Watching, and Dorothy Koomson, author of I Know What You’ve Done, discuss digging into neighborhood secrets, disappearances, and conspiracies in their unputdownable …
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NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Dorothy Koomson
Get to know Shelf Life author Dorothy Koomson…
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NewsPandemics Past
There’s been a lot of coverage about the challenges of distributing the Covid-19 vaccine. How do we get it to distant areas? How do we use a whole vial before it expires? What about the special refrigerators needed to keep it cold enough? But these problems seem minor compared to the very first vaccine distribution in the early 1800s. Historian Allyson Poska shares the story of 29 orphan boys who crossed the Atlantic Ocean as live incubators for the smallpox vaccine and what lessons we can learn from this early campaign.
NewsThe World in the Whale with Rebecca Giggs and Nick Pyenson
Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms: The World in the Whale, discusses the role of whales in our global culture and changing environment, in conversation with Nick Pyenson, author of Spying …
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NewsLondon Fog, LA Smog
Almost overnight, things that had not been crimes became criminalized in a new Victorian era.
NewsApply now! Book Arts fellowships for 2021-2022
The new Book Arts Fellowship offers a hands-on learning experiences of printing and, a hallmark of book arts, papermaking—a unique, year-long academic leadership experience for two undergraduate UVa students interested in arts administration, public …
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NewsApply now! 2022 Festival internships
The Virginia Festival of the Book offers paid internships to students…
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NewsLINKED: Stories Crossing the Color Line
How a grant from Virginia Humanities is helping the Richmond chapter expand its work of bringing Virginians together to face the legacy of slavery
NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Nick Pyenson
Nick Pyenson, author of Spying on Whales, is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. His work has taken him …
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NewsQ&A with Fathoms author Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms, is from Perth, Australia. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, and Best Australian Essays, among other publications. Her writing focuses on our connection to animals in a …
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NewsApply Now for a SHARP Grant
Virginia Humanities will distribute more than $900k to humanities and cultural nonprofits across Virginia as part of the American Rescue Plan. Learn who is eligible and how to apply.
NewsAAPI Summer Reading Book List
Our July 10th, 2021 episode is filled with incredible recommendations for books written by Asian American and Pacific Islander writers. Listen here and check out the full list below! Minor …
