Features Archives

May 7, 2010 16 min read

May brings in several exciting new books. In Fiction we have a new Michael Thomas Ford mystery from Kensington Books,...

Tove Jansson: Out of the Closet

JoSelle Vanderhooft

Features

May 7, 2010 2 min read

I first discovered Tove Jansson’s fifth Moomin book, Moominsummer Madness, while rooting through my stepbrother’s bookshelf shortly before my 9th birthday....

Five Poets Who Changed My Life

Michael Broder

5 Poets

May 6, 2010 4 min read

Dorothy Parker. My sixth grade English teacher, Anita Malta, gave us the poetry anthology Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon...

Rigoberto González leads nonfiction workshop @ VCFA

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

News

May 4, 2010 1 min read

Rigoberto González, whose eight books include Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, will be leading a workshop in creative...

Queering the Literary Canon: Vicente de la Rosa, the Dress Thief in ‘Don Quixote’

Miguel Santana

Features

May 3, 2010 2 min read

Don Quixote, one of the greatest works of world literature, has been the object of academic studies since the inception...

BOOK BUZZ: May 2010

John Morgan Wilson

Book Buzz

May 2, 2010 8 min read

Here come the honors and awards! Several writers/activists or writing-related nonprofits are among the recipients of the 2010 Monette-Horwitz Trust Award...