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Writing Craft, Vol. XV: Author and journalist Mike D’Orso on Pumping Granite coming to paperback (Part One)
May 3, 2013
NORFOLK, Va. – Author and journalist Mike D’Orso was the subject of the first craft talk I wrote for this blog a couple years ago, when we discussed the great story “The Project and the Park.” It captures the housing project near Harbor Park as that sports venue opened, and it is only one of 45 […]
UPDATED: Allan Gurganus, Sheri Reynolds, Tim Seibles in lineup of the 35th annual ODU litfest
September 30, 2012
NORFOLK, Va. – The 35th Annual Old Dominion University Literary Festival kicks off today with a reception for two visual arts exhibits. Readings start Monday with author, poet and translator Yunte Huang, and the week goes full speed until Friday night, when Allan Gurganus, author of The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, will write an entire […]
Theater: Karen Levy Newnam of RipplAffect on the local debut of Any One of Us
March 5, 2012
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk marketing and communications executive Karen Levy Newnam has theater and non-profit roots, and these worlds meet in her involvement in RipplAffect. Now in its fifth year, RipplAffect has produced a series of benefit performances of Eve Ensler’s plays, primarily The Vagina Monologues, to raise awareness and money for the YWCA of South […]
Tunnel Traffic is back; New Jersey is ‘nice’
February 6, 2012
NORFOLK, Va. — The Tunnel Traffic reading series returned last month, and it will continue this week at Borjo Coffeehouse near Old Dominion University. The reading prompt, recently announced by series founder Travis Everett, a poet and and ODU student in the MFA Creative Writing Program, is say something “nice” about New Jersey. As regular readers […]
John McManus’ “Mr. Gas” is on AltDaily, which is more awesome than John McManus is letting on
December 14, 2011
NORFOLK, Va. — Geez, I step away from my computer for a few days and miss something cool. That’ll learn me. It’s you and me from now on, computer. You see, Norfolk writer John McManus, featured here in a very funny Belligerent Q&A and a Craft Talk earlier in the year, published his fine story “Mr […]
Upcoming HR Arts Events
Mike D'Orso's Pumping Granite: Paperback release event and talk. 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 7 @ Borjo Coffeehouse, 4416 Monarch Way (at W. 45th St.), Norfolk, Va. Metered parking nearby. Free admission. Books, beverages, eats for $. FMI click this link.
May 20, 2013
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