Book Notes

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: April 6, 2008

Big Read programs
continue at the library
Two talks are on tap this week at branches of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library as part of the Big Read.
M.Thomas Inge will be at the Louisa County Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, and Nick Patler will speak at the Greene Country Library at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Inge, a professor of humanities at Randolph-Macon College, will speak on “To Kill a Prejudice: Race Relations in Twain, Faulkner and Harper Lee.” Patler, and author and historian, will discuss “Killing the Mockingbird: Historical and Contemporary Efforts to Ban to Kill a Mockingbird.”
The library also will host two book discussions.
Monday Evening Book Club meets at 7 p.m. this week at the Crozet Library to discuss “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers.
Wednesday Night Book Group will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Gordon Avenue Library to discuss “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy.
Call 979-7151 Ext. 211.

UVa celebrates poetry with bookstore event
The University of Virginia will celebrate the release of “All That Mighty Heart: London Poems” with a special event at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Virginia Bookstore.
The anthology was edited by UVa poet Lisa Russ Spaar and published by University of Virginia Press. Contributors and translators of poems will be among those who will read from the collection on Tuesday night. The anthology spans five centuries and represents 95 poets writing in nearly 20 different languages and cultures.
For more information, call 924-6675.

Klein will read from his latest novel Thursday
Paul Klein will be at New Dominion Bookshop at noon Thursday to read selections from his novel “Accidents of Time and Place.” A book signing will follow.
Klein, who worked in film production and as a script writer for television, started concentrating on fiction five years ago. he decided to devote his creative time to fiction. He lives in Highland County.
For more information, call 295-2552.

Folklife director shares stories from his book
Jon Lohman, the director of the Virginia Folklife Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will be at Barnes and Noble at 1 p.m. Saturday for a book signing and discussion.
Lohman’s book, “In Good Keeping: Virginia’s Folklife Apprenticeships,” chronicles the first five years of the apprentice program that matches master folklife artists with eager learners across Virginia. The book is illustrated with photography by Morgan Miller.
For details, call 984-6598.

Book Festival director will read his poetry
New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book signing by Kevin McFadden at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
McFadden will present selections from his book of poetry, “Hardscrabble.” His poems examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language. His manuscript was named runner-up for the 2006 Walt Whitman Award.
The associate program director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, McFadden was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia.
Call 295-2552.

From staff reports