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Warning: The Alley Light’s Happy Hour could actually, well, make you happy
In an alley on Second Street, right between Rev Soup and Downtown Thai, there’s an amber light over a low-hung door that’s on in the evenings from Wednesday through Sunday. The alley certainly doesn’t look like much. And it’s a dead end. You may have seen The Alley Light as you walked by. You may…
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DTM Book Fest Picks: on the First Amendment, near the free speech wall
On the Front Lines with the First Amendment: Floyd Abrams, described as “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age,” author of Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment, interviewed by Ron Collins (Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment). Hosted by The Thomas Jefferson Center for the…
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DTM Book Fest Picks: hell on heels?
We just like the title of this one: Hell on Heels: Bad Girls, Feminism, and Rebellion in Romance Fiction. Now how could that not be interesting? Starts at 12pm today at CitySpace-Piedmont Council for the Arts.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: Does literary publishing have a future?
This one could effect the Book Fest itself one day. Matt Dellinger, content director at Byliner.com, Brigid Hughes, founding editor of A Public Space of Graywolf Press, and Jeff Kleinman, a founder of Folio Literary Management, and Ralph Eubanks, Virginia Quarterly Review editor, discuss the future of literary publishing. Omni Hotel today at 12pm.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: kids bookswap at Oakley’s Gently Used Books
This has been a great tradition of the Book Fest. Bring your gently used books and trade for new-to-you books. they start with 50 boxes of books and swap books from 11am-3pm. At Oakley’s Gently Used Books today starting at 11am.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: publishing in the digital age
Publishing is undergoing tremendous evolution as the digitization of media and reading changes the rules of the game for authors, editors, agents, and booksellers. The game changers are in Silicon Valley. Learn about the big-picture changes in publishing, and how authors can excel in the new environment. At the Omni Hotel today at 10am.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: Book Fair at the Omni
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities hosts a Book Fair today at the Omni Hotel. Starts at 9am. They say there will be “lots of treasures to discover.” Ends at 3:35pm.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: exhibition with Pomegranate
This is an art installation/gallery exhibition focusing on a short piece of fiction. The story unfolds through text, art, and fiber in a series of collaborative works that steps outside the confines of the traditional “book” format. It’s at Firefish Gallery today at 7pm.
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DTM Book Fest Pick: Hemingway at the Skybar
Philip Greene, author of To Have and Have Another – A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, comes to the Commonwealth Restaurant and Skybar and introduces us to some cocktails inspired by the life and times of the famous author. Friday, March 21, at 6pm “While of course he was a drinker and was going to be one…
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DTM Book Fest Picks: honoring local “Maestro” George Garrett
Former George Garrett students, Carrie Brown (The Last First Day), R.H.W. Dillard (Understanding George Garrett),Kelly Cherry (, and biographer Casey Clabough (George Garrett: A Critical Biography) consider the literary life and work of the local writer, and famed UVA teacher, sometimes called “Maestro”: possibly the most variously gifted southern writer following Robert Penn Warren. Takes…
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