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| Happy birthday, VABook! The Virginia Festival of
the Book was graced with an assortment of cakes, pastries and ice cream by local
dessert artists and bakeries at the festival opening ceremony. |
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| Robin and Linda Williams, frequent guest singers
on NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion,” join novelist and radio host
Garrison Keillor for a little traveling music before the end of a VABook! 2004
headline event. This event kicked off the festival and became the largest recorded
attendance at a single VABook! event in the festival’s history. |
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| The town comes alive to literature each spring.
Here, two readers can’t even wait to get the books home as they perch in
front of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.
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| The 2004 winners of the Letters About Literature
contest: Alyssa Jenkins, Kelly Mulquin, Lauren Costlow, featured with the keynote
speaker of the festival opening, John Stokes.
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| Author Clyde Edgerton makes points with the festival
luncheon crowd after reading from and performing several hilarious pieces from
his novel, Lunch at the Piccadilly. |
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| Readers and participants came from 40 states and
seven countries to attend VABook! 2004. At New Dominion, they’re packed
up the stairs and down the aisles to hear Dean King, author and biographer of
Patrick O’Brian, speak about the Aubrey-Maturin novels. |
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| Novelists Richard Bausch, Clyde Edgerton and Madison
Smartt Bell belt one out during a headline evening of readings and music sponsored
by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. |
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| The Fellowship of Southern Writers honored Eleanor
Ross Taylor, poet and longtime Charlotttesville resident, with readings of her
poems by Fred Chappell, Dave Smith, Henry Taylor, Ross Taylor (her son), Ellen
Bryant Voigt and Charles Wright. |
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| VABook! 2004 featured three panels on the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. Here pictured are participants in the Prince Edward County story: (from left to right) John Stokes, Dorothy Holcomb, moderator Amy Tillerson, and Drs. Vonita White Foster and Gerald Foster. |
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| Author Henry Wiencek, winner of the 2003 L.A. Times Book Prize in history, was a participant, reception host, and moderator in panels in the festival. |
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| A festival crowd packs the UVa Newcomb Hall Ballroom
to hear authors featured at Saturday’s headline events. The total attendance
at festival events reached 22,386—a new festival record. |
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| At one of the headline events, Booker Prize-winning
novelist Michael Ondaatje and forensic anthropologist Victoria Sanford discuss
their work and the intersections of fact and fiction. |
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| Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon
signs books for a line of eager fans after a reading from an “apocryphal
chapter” of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which
appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. |
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| Author David Baldacci entertains another packed
luncheon crowd during the annual Crime Wave day of mystery and suspense writing. |
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| Brigida Mack, reporter and anchor of Charlottesville’s
NBC affiliate Channel 29, reads to storylovers young and old at StoryFest. VABook!
2004 set another record for attendance at youth events, introducing 9,000 area
youths to authors and book-related programs. |
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| Events take place in venues all around Charlottesville.
Here, a panel on politically charged fiction takes place “underground”
as authors Aimee Liu, Nick Taylor, David L. Robbins, Michael Lowenthal and Tony
Grooms discuss their work with Richmond Times-Dispatch reviewer Judi
Goldenberg |
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