RIP, Alan Cheuse
The novelist and critic Alan Cheuse died last week. Best known as a book reviewer for the NPR program All Things Considered, he wrote several novels and collections of fiction, and… Read More»
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The novelist and critic Alan Cheuse died last week. Best known as a book reviewer for the NPR program All Things Considered, he wrote several novels and collections of fiction, and… Read More»
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetBVxCYCFc From OpenCulture.com: In November of 1952, the normally reclusive [William] Faulkner allowed a film crew into his secluded world at Oxford to make a short documentary about his life.… Read More»
William Byrd II was a planter, an explorer who helped fix the line between Virginia and North Carolina, and a founder—he established Richmond. (He even put an ad in the… Read More»
If you’re in Charlottesville tonight, join me for an event at WriterHouse: “Portal to the Past: Archival Sources and the Writing Process with Gigi Amateau”: In the process of writing… Read More»
As we noted earlier, today is the anniversary of Nat Turner’s rebellion. Whether this uprising of slaves, which took place over two days in 1831, was “successful” and whether I… Read More»
From the Southern Literary Messenger, July 1863: We are receiving too much trash in rhyme. What is called “poetry,” by its authors, is not wanted. Fires are not accessible at… Read More»
From the Associated Press via ArtDaily.org: Private Thomas W. Timberlake of Co. G, 2nd Virginia Infantry found this child’s portrait on the battlefield of Port Republic, Virginia, between the bodies… Read More»
I’m reading Maurie McInnis‘s award-winning new book, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. In it, she mentions the English-born Presbyterian minister George Bourne, who lived… Read More»
This is from George William Bagby‘s “Editor’s Cable” in the June 1862 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger: We believe that the battles before Richmond were decisive. The crisis in… Read More»
As far as I know, Thomas Jefferson was not a poet, although he did disparage other people’s poetry. In Notes on the State of Virginia, he wrote: Among the blacks… Read More»
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