Trying to visit every event at the 16th annual Festival of the Book is a good way to get your eyes strained and your ankles sprained, so C-VILLE put together a guide of things that seemed worth doing. Don't be shy to visit vabook.org for complete listings.
I was prepared to dislike Rachel Greenwald's book Why He Didn't Call You Back, which outlines the results of 1,000 "exit interviews" she conducted with men who never initiated second dates. Surprisingly, I'll recommend this book to all of my clients.
Most people think Americans don't really do the poetry thing. We might do the Hollywood thing, the tech thing, the nation-building thing, and (at least until this year) the high finance thing. But not that poetry thing. Ah, but we do. We just don’t know it.
A wise person once said that talking about music is like dancing about architecture. The same could perhaps be said in regards to talking about wine, an exercise so absurd it's regularly mocked on novelty napkins. Writing about wine, however, is another thing entirely. Wine is an especially literary liquid; no other nutrient gets its own section in the bookstore.
Tags:
wine,
Books,
Gift Guide,
The Billionaire's Vinegar,
A Life Uncorked,
Adventures on the Wine Route,
Benjamin Wallace,
Hugh Johnson,
James Conaway,
Kermit Lynch,
Napa,
wine atlas
Mark Grisham (brother of John) and David Donaldson have a story they want to tell about the American Civil War, the birth of the practice of psychology in the United States and the hand of God in human affairs. That's a tall order for a debut set in a landscape already so thoroughly tunneled and trenched.
