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So Many Books...The Pleasures of Reading

Fri. March 20th, 2009 10:00 AM

Get inspired recommendations for reading in many fields from Jessica Feldman and Rob Stilling, authors of (What Should I Read Next?)and Michael Dirda (Classics for Pleasure).

Hosted by Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville/Albemarle.
Moderator: Mike Etchemendy

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Location:

Central JMRL Library
201 E. Market Street
(434)979-7151
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Featuring:

Michael Dirda, author of Classics for Pleasure and Book by Book, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, a columnist for the Washington Post Book World, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other print and online periodicals.

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Jessica Feldman, co-editor with Rob Stilling of What Should I Read Next?, is Professor of English at UVa. Author of Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature and Victorian Modernism, she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

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Robert Stilling, co-editor of What Should I Read Next? is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Virgnia and a graduate of Yale College. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. His current project is on Decadence in contemporary poetry

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