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Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Back Bay Books, 2016) has been selected as the 2018 Roanoke Valley Read. Author Sunil Yapa will visit Roanoke October 4-6 to read from and discuss the book at Hollins University. He will also participate in Cityworks X(po), presenting a talk on "Radical Empathy." Community… Continue reading ★ YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST selected as 2018 Roanoke Valley Read
Longtime journalist Mary Carter Bishop has published a memoir, deploying her reporter's eye on the subject of her own family in Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son (Harper, 2018). Bishop, well known to longtime readers of the Roanoke Times & World News, was named a Pulitzer finalist and awarded a George Polk award… Continue reading ★ Mary Carter Bishop on the publication of her memoir, DON’T YOU EVER
How do we talk with each other about divisive issues? Katherine Devine pulled this book group together after a conversation with Delegate Sam Rasoul. As "Sam's (Book) Club (on Civil Discourse)," we read The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, and the group met twice. The group is going to continue reading books on improving the… Continue reading ★ New Connections Book Club – Next Book: HEALING THE HEART OF DEMOCRACY
Jim Minick will return to the region for Hollins University's Lex Allen Literary Festival on April 7, reading from his most recent work, Fire is Your Water. Minick is an assistant professor at Augusta University and core faculty in Converse College's low-residency MFA program. He formerly taught at Radford University and will also appear at the… Continue reading ★ Drawing from the beauty of this world: Jim Minick at Hollins’ Lex Allen Literary Festival April 7
Have you taken part in the Goodreads Reading Challenge? Online tools such as Goodreads and Library Thing are good ways to track reading goals, and that measurement makes a difference. I've slowly increased over the years and this year met my goal of 60 books. In 2017, more than 3 million Goodreads members read an… Continue reading ★ Have a 2018 reading goal?
Do you have a resolution to be more involved in your community in 2018? It's clear in this clip of Dar Williams and Beth Macy in conversation on Dec. 11 that building positive proximity can be a lot of fun. Here's a little inspiration: watch the clip on YouTube. ★ .
Issue 24 of Ecotone, the journal of place-based writing, features the work of former Roanoke resident Martha E. Park. In her stay, Park immersed herself in Roanoke and the historic Gainsboro community, and her new illustrated work is a result of close study during that period. To mark the publication, Martha told us a little about… Continue reading ★ Martha Park renders a community
https://www.facebook.com/BookCityRoanoke/videos/284907902031590/ Click above to watch Beth Macy and Dar Williams in conversation on the BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke stage. The event was sold out, but you don't have to miss a moment. Special thanks to production team lead Denise Allen Membreno at New Moon Creative Media. Learn more about Dar Williams and What I Found in a Thousand… Continue reading ★ Dar Williams and Beth Macy from the BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke Stage
Artemis Journal wraps up 2016 with a poetry reading on the Hollins Campus this Thursday, December 7. Join Hollins Faculty, Artemis poets and a community of readers and writers in the Wyndham Robertson Library on the Hollins Campus. Readers include Judy Ayyildiz, Josh Barkan, Maurice Ferguson, Cathy Hankla, Susan Hankla, Charlotte Morgan, Pauline Pauley and Elizabeth… Continue reading ★ Artemis Hollins fall poetry reading Thursday, 12/7
Finding Roanoke! Can't wait for next week's Positive Proximity conversation with Dar Williams and Beth Macy? Get a preview in this CityWorks' Big Ideas for Better Places conversation. Brad Stephens interviewed Dar Williams on the occasion of September's release of What I Found in a Thousand Towns. The result is an engaging, enlightening conversation and just… Continue reading ★ Big Ideas for Better Places Podcast featuring Dar Williams
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