On Lighthouses and the Act of Belonging Thursday, October 15th 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event 2013 Latin American Voices prize winner Jazmina Barrera returns with her latest book, On Lighthouses, a critical and imaginative study of lighthouses around the world and their meaning to us as individuals. Part memoir and part literary history, […]
There, There:A Conversation with Tommy Orange Wednesday, October 7th 7:30 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event As all of the unique characters in Tommy Orange’s novel, There, There hurtle toward the Big Oakland Powwow, their journeys explore their Indian identites. The New York Times calls it “A new kind of American epic… one that reflects
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A Message from our Director & Manager Dear Friends, As 2019 comes to a close, so does our 21st year of Fall for the Book. We’ve been so fortunate over the last two decades to grow from a small, two-day festival with twenty writers, to a major staple of Northern Virginia’s literary community. This year,
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On Thursday, October 10, Melissa Rivero author of the debut novel The Affairs of the Falcóns was awarded the second annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. Fall for the Book created this post-publication book prize to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work
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