EventSHELF LIFE—Living Queer History with Samantha Rosenthal
Samantha Rosenthal discusses Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City and the LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, that the book documents and celebrates. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, …
BlogLetter to a Young Female Physician with Dr. Suzanne Koven
It’s 2022. Why haven’t women achieved more equity in medicine, or in other professions? When veteran physician and writer Dr. Suzanne Koven toured the country after the publication of her …
BlogSouthern Landscapes: Real and Imagined
Authors Ralph Eubanks (A Place Like Mississippi), Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (My Monticello), and Imani Perry (South to America) take center stage at this Festival headliner event to discuss the storied …
BlogRust Belt Vegan Kitchen with Meredith Pangrace
Meredith Pangrace (Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen, editor) discusses and shares a cooking demo of one of the recipes from this community cookbook of Rust Belt culinary favorites, updated for today’s …
BlogCarol Troxell Reader: Imani Perry and South to America
An Alabama native, Imani Perry (South to America) returns to the region of her upbringing in this book, crafting a narrative of the real people and places that make up …
BlogLife-Threatening Unknowns and Inequities in American Healthcare
Drawn from personal experience and research, authors Taylor Harris (This Boy We Made), Anushay Hossain (The Pain Gap), and N. West Moss (Flesh and Blood) share their individual stories and …
BlogFresh Portraits of Indomitable Women
Hilary Holladay (The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography) and Andrew Kaufman, (The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky) investigate the true …
BlogThe Emotional Pull of Home
Join authors Joanna Eleftheriou (This Way Back), Henry Hoke (Sticker), and Jennifer Niesslein (Dreadful Sorry) as they share their place-centered essays and memoirs, addressing questions of class, history, family, gender, …
BlogHalfway Home: A Conversation with Reuben Jonathan Miller
Reuben Jonathan Miller (Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration) discusses his work studying mass incarceration, including life after incarceration, sharing the stories of the men, women, …
BlogLives of the Unfree: Activism and Survival
Authors Justene Hill Edwards (Unfree Markets: The Slaves Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina) and Vanessa M. Holden (Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat …
BlogSeeing Trees, Saving the Great Forests
Forests scientists and preservationists Meg Lowman (Arbornaut) and John W. Reid (Ever Green) share their work and experience traveling and studying the great forests of the world, including the immediate …
BlogSHELF LIFE—The Silent Shore with Charles L. Chavis, Jr.
In partnership with the Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Book at Virginia Humanities presents Charles L. Chavis, Jr. (The Silent Shore: The …
