The Adriana Trigianni and David Baldacci event, Wine and Words, at the Virginia Festival of the Book last week, was held at a Charlottesville wine bar called Enoteca. It’s a knock off of the wonderful […]
Author: Adrian Jimenez
Fateful Acts
On February 26, 2009, Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times of Philipp Meyer: “American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and […]
What are you doing here in the first place?
I climbed up the creaking stairs, 10 minutes late, as Jeffrey Renard Allen read from his story “The Green Apocalypse” from his collection Holding Pattern. I was immediately reminded of how much I enjoy the […]
Virginia Festival Of The Book
This week in Charlottesville is the 15th annual Virginia Festival of The Book—five days of literary events to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. This year 12th Street will be in attendance, so look […]
Getting Away
There is something to be said for a change of environment. For the past couple of weeks my writing has been stuck, stagnant. The answer was to get away. I am a creature of habit. […]
Banging Away At It
For 21 months I’ve been working on the same piece and it’s driving me crazy. Most every day I turn on my computer, open the same Word document, and start the process all over again. […]
Bad Writer Karma
I stole a book yesterday. I know, I know, I know. It was stupid, and I really didn’t meant to do it. It just…happened. There’s a Barnes & Noble about a five-minute drive from my […]
Quality of Life
Lush Life, by Richard Price pub. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 “So, what do you do?” Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But […]
The Weight of a Book
“Books have particular qualities that are lost in translation into code. A book isn’t just its text, it’s also a material object with a particular history, written in stains and stamps and underlining.…The body of […]
Cathedrals of Writing
There is something magical about a good bookstore—dusty shelves, quiet nooks, jazz on the stereo, sellers that are a blend of friendly and pedantic. It is a place of romance for an avid reader. Peace […]