Any fans of the latest edition of Best New Poets who happen to be in the New York area should mark their calendars for two upcoming events. A number of BNP contributors will be reading from their work at 7:30 on January 7 at Bar 13 in Greenwich Village. On January 9 at 7:00 more BNP contributors will be reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn.
One of the most popular events in the Fall Lecture Series at the Mariners’ Museum proved to be Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge’s presentation, “Where in the World Was Virginia? Mapping a Moving Place, 1587-1865.” As Wooldridge explains, during the age of exploration the exact location of Virginia was still very much open to debate.
NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi welcomed Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge to his show last week. The entire episode may be heard here on the Kojo Nnamdi Show official site. The web page also features a gallery of fifteen of the book’s maps.
Ivor Noël Hume’s Belzoni, an epic biography of the man who procured for the British Museum many of its most celebrated Egyptian artifacts, is among the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012.
We were recently contacted by the son of Moreland Perkins with the news that his father had passed away. Dr. Perkins had many ties to Virginia: a Richmond native, he was educated at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Military Institute (he earned his graduate degrees at Harvard). Although best know for his philosophical work [...]
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Bertram Wyatt-Brown at the age of 80. Dr. Wyatt-Brown was the coeditor of Virginia’s Civil War and completed another book with us that will be published in Fall 2013.