Listen To Events!
Listen to audio from these Festival events.
- Opening Ceremony
- Three Cups of Tea With Greg Mortenson
- An Evening With Walter Mosley
- Just Call Me Mike - Mike Farrell
- Festival Luncheon with Jan Karon
- The Place To Be - Roger Mudd
- Civil War in Fiction
- A More Perfect Constitution with Larry Sabato
- Poetry Evening with Charles Wright and Charles Simic
- Wayward Sons, Nathan Englander & Colm Toibin
- How Media Shapes Life as We Know It
- Voices of Adult Learners
- Opening the Vein: Pouring Life into Writing
- Digging Coal and Moving Mountains
- Science Writing: Life Cycles
- The Generations Project: Young People Document Aging
- Old Chestnuts: American Culture in Conflict
- Being a Black Man
- The Campus Client: Legal Issues in Higher Education
- Stories of the Civil Rights Struggle
- Changing the World Through Community Organizing
- Gertrude the Albino Frog: A Musical Reading
- Graphics at Gravity
- The Twain We Never Meet: Two Literary Historians
- New Writings on Jefferson
- Nice Jewish Boys Gone Wild
- Politics of God
- The Creative Mind: How Writers and Artists Invent the World
- Finding the Story in History
- The World the War Made: WWII's Legacy in Justice and Diplomacy
More Audio Available
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Want More?
Then come to the 15th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book March 18-22, 2009 for the for more celebration of books, literacy and reading!
2008 Festival in Review
The 2008 Virginia Festival of the book featured over 300 authors, writers and publishing professionals at more than 200 events.
Event Slideshows
Festival Slideshow - If you missed Jan Karon, Roger Mudd, Mike Farrell, Watler Mosley or David Ignatius don't miss this slideshow!
More Highlights - Can't get enough of the Book Festival? We can't really blame you. Take a look at these pictures from the Authors Reception, Opening Ceremony and more...
Youth & Family - The Festival features dozens of events for children and their families including our annual Storyfest, sponsored in part by Albemarle Family, Harris Teeter and WHJT.
Watch Events
The City of Charlottesville generously agreed to record all the Book Festival events in City Council Chambers.
- The Campus Client: Legal Issues in Higher Education
- A More Perfect Constitution
- Old Chestnuts: American Culture in Conflict
- How the Media Shapes Life As We Know It
- Science Writing: Life Cycles
- Being A Black Man
- Changing the World through Community Organizing
- Stories of the Civil Rights Struggle
- The Railroad Passenger Train: A Fond Remembrance and a Look Ahead
- Of Vice and Men: Crime, Money, and Panic in America
- Small Justice: How the Family Court System Denies the Rights of Victims of Sexual Abuse
- Resisting Violence in A Violent World
- High Gloss: Making the Beautiful Book
- Jim Crow and Mississippi: Richard Wright’s Black Boy
- Photographing the Presidents: The Bigger Picture
- Self Help: Twelve Steps and You
Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the
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