How does good storytelling help us listen? Can fiction help us have better conversations, or better understand the complexity of perspectives on important issues? What's the role of strong local connections in the addressing the challenges facing the globe? Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, the 2018… Continue reading ★ Big Ideas for Better Places Podcast: Roanoke Valley Reads author Sunil Yapa
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★ Celebrating WELCOMING WEEK with the team at Roanoke Public Libraries and Blue Ridge Literacy
September 14 - 23 marks Welcoming Week, a national effort led locally by the City of Roanoke and a dozen nonprofit organizations. Planned events will bring together immigrants, refugees, and native-born residents to promote the benefits of welcoming everyone in our community. To mark Welcoming Week, we asked Roanoke Public Libraries Director Sheila S. Umberger and Blue… Continue reading ★ Celebrating WELCOMING WEEK with the team at Roanoke Public Libraries and Blue Ridge Literacy
★ Virginia Center for the Book to host MACY, HESSE, and EYRE at OCT 23 panel of journalist-authors
Tickets are now available for the October 23 event, On the Beat: Local Journalism, Truth, and Democracy. The event is presented by Virginia Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Book, and With Good Reason Radio, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with The Pulitzer Prizes. Three journalists and authors will participate… Continue reading ★ Virginia Center for the Book to host MACY, HESSE, and EYRE at OCT 23 panel of journalist-authors
★ September Newsletter with events listing
September book events are listed in the Back to the Books issue of the BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke newsletter. If it didn't show up in your inbox, don't worry, you can get it here.
★ Stories of the Day: Karen E. Bender explores THE NEW ORDER
Karen E. Bender explores fear, the power people assume, and the last refuges of the powerless in her story collection, The New Order, out today from Counterpoint Press. Separated by fear, the characters in the 11 tight stories feel a lot like us. They scurry for safety in a world in which cars are "big… Continue reading ★ Stories of the Day: Karen E. Bender explores THE NEW ORDER
★ Fall Readings at Hollins University
There probably isn't a better Roanoke Valley location for authors to read than on the campus of Hollins University. Whether it's before the guided mirror of the Green Drawing Room, among the publications of Hollins authors in the Hollins Room of the Wyndham Robertson Library, or in one of the auditoriums, the audience at Hollins… Continue reading ★ Fall Readings at Hollins University
★ Finding Main Street toolkit available
BOOK CITY★Roanoke is pleased to support FINDING MAIN STREET, a statewide initiative that builds upon the success of last year's FINDING ROANOKE book club. This project of Virginia Main Street provides discussion guides, convening tips, marketing materials and a video series based on Dar Williams' What I Found in a Thousand Towns (Basic Books, 2017). If… Continue reading ★ Finding Main Street toolkit available
★ DOPESICK Launch Day
Congratulations and thank you to Beth Macy for her hard work on a critical topic. Today is launch day for Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. The book highlights the struggles of individuals and communities dealing with the misuse of opioids in the western part of Virginia. Macy emphasizes the dedicated… Continue reading ★ DOPESICK Launch Day
★ YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST selected as 2018 Roanoke Valley Read
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
★ Mary Crockett at Book No Further for Small Business Saturday
While you're out supporting local businesses for Small Business Saturday, stop by Book No Further for a 2 PM book launch of Montgomery County author Mary Crockett's How She Died, How I Lived. The book, one of only 12 young adult books included in the American Booksellers Association Winter Indie Next Kids List, is the story of Jamie,… Continue reading ★ Mary Crockett at Book No Further for Small Business Saturday
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