Book Notes

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: September 28, 2008

Former VQR editor dies at age of 99

Charlotte Kohler, who served as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1942 to 1975, passed away Sept. 15, one day shy of her 100th birthday.

A 1929 graduate of Vassar College, Kohler earned a masters and a doctorate from the University of Virginia.

She taught at UVa until 1979. Before returning to Charlottesville, she taught at Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, now called UNC-Greensboro.

Lisa Williams will read from her new poems

New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book signing by Lisa Williams at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

She will present selections from her new book of poetry, “Woman Reading to the Sea,” selected by Joyce Carol Oates as winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize.

Williams is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Virginia. She worked as senior editor for William McDonough and his environmental consulting firm, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry. Her work with McDonough and his partner, Michael Braungart, on their environmental book, “Cradle to Cradle,” inspired poems in her new volume of poetry.

For more information, call 295-2552.

Radulescu will sign her debut novel

Domnica Radulescu will be at Barnes and Noble at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to read from and sign copies of her debut novel, “Train to Trieste.”

Radulescu was born in Romania and came to the United States in 1983. She is a professor of romance languages and literature and of women’s studies at Washington and Lee University. She has written and edited books and scholarly articles on European literature and theater

For details, call 295-2552.

From staff reports