Category: Books

  • Book Bash: VA Book Festival coming next week

    Book Bash: VA Book Festival coming next week

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    David McNair
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    The Virginia Festival of the Book is happening next week, March 19 to the 23, and we think its important to note that many of the venues for the readings, talks, and discussions are on the DTM (or very nearby), thanks to places like the New Dominion Bookshop, Central Library, City Hall Chambers, WriterHouse, City…

  • The other new DTM hotel…

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    David McNair
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    Speaking of hotels…there’s another one planned for the corner right across from the Lewis & Clark (and Sacagawea) statue, a seven story, 133 room Marriott extended-stay Residence Inn. Work on it could begin this winter, and a slew of funky business that have set up in the interim –Random Row Books, City Clay, Cat Thraser…

  • Tilghman reads from his “dazzling” new novel at New Dominion

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    David McNair
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    Fifteen years after the publication of his first novel Mason’s Retreat, UVA creative writing prof Christopher Tilghman revisits the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in his 2012 novel The Right-Hand Shore. And you can catch him reading and signing copies of the book at New Dominion Bookshop on Thursday, June 7 at 5:30pm. “A…

  • Reading: Saunders’ debut novel Ministers of Fire

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    David McNair
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    Over ten years in the making, local author Mark Saunders’ debut novel Ministers of Fire has finally hit the bookstores, both online and off, and on Friday, May 18 he’ll be reading from the book at the New Dominion Bookshop on the DTM. Novelist Robert Stone calls Ministers a “beautifully written, restrained, and passionate work…