Month: March 2007

March 31, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Teaching" by Roddy Doyle

>The narrator of Roddy Doyle’s “Teaching” has been teaching for 23 years and he’s not just burned out and dried up, he’s completely empty….
March 29, 2007

>Readings

>It was my intention to keep a calendar here of upcoming readings in the area, but I let that slip away from me. Now,…
March 28, 2007

>What do you read?

>I don’t mean by that question do you read chick lit or mysteries, short stories or novels. I mean it more . . ….
March 25, 2007

>A New Season at ASC

>Today’s performance of The Brats of Clarence at The Blackfriars Playhouse marks the end of the American Shakespeare Center’s 2007 Actors’ Renaissance Season. I…
March 24, 2007

>Bret Lott to leave The Southern Review

>Confirming something I heard today at the Virginia Festival of the Book, The Charleston S.C. City paper confirms that Bret Lott will be leaving…
March 24, 2007

>VaBook.org: Literary Editors/Book Fair

>Today at the Virginia Festival of the Book was Crime Wave (way too many mystery writers in one place) and Publishing Day (events with…
March 24, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Playdate" by Kate Walbert

>I expect most men will not like this story (“Playdate” by Kate Walbert); I didn’t. For one thing, men are mostly absent from it….
March 23, 2007

>VaBook.org: Communities of Memory/Disasters in Fact and Fiction

>I made it to two Virginia Festival of the Book programs today (plus a little time for coffee drinking and reading at the Mudhouse)….
March 21, 2007

>VaBook.org: Lives Turned Upside Down

>I only managed to get to one event at the Virginia Festival of the Book today but it was a good one. The theme…
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