>Virginia Festival of the Book

>The Virginia Festival of the Book is just 2 months away now and it looks quite good–I’ve studied the schedule and there are lots…

>The Rumpus

>With the newspaper industry in a shambles and cost-cutting axes aimed at book review space in those paper and ink dinosaurs that have managed…

>Praise Song for the Day

>The Inaugural Poem: Praise Song for the Day, by Elizabeth Alexander: Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each…

>Word Power

>I like this article in the New York Times: From Books, New President Found Voice. Can we at least hope that this lesson will…

>"Valuable Artifacts"

>It’s an odd way of finding out about something, but then Facebook is a very odd place. I noticed the link to this short…