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It’s a big weekend for book lovers with the West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston.
It all kicks off at 9 a.m. this Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. The featured authors are Jayne Anne Phillips, Neal Shusterman, Jeff Shaara, and Rajia Hassib
Festival goers can attend workshops on writing immersive fiction and writing about music, as well as a presentation about the eight Virginia-born presidents.
Children and families are also welcome, with a children’s writer’s workshop, a storybook costume parade and a production of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories and poems.
A used book sale and author’s marketplace will be open throughout the day.
Ahead of the Saturday festival Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, a New York Times best seller and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, presented the McCreight Lecture in the Humanities at the Capitol Theater Thursday night.
**Editor’s Note: West Virginia Public Broadcasting is a sponsor of the West Virginia Book Festival.
This week, a new novel about two girls and an astronomy textbook draws inspiration from one of the quietest places in West Virginia. Also, author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle talks about growing up as part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. And, a Kentucky tattoo artist practices traditional tattooing and traditional music. He says they’re not too different.
Continue Reading Take Me to More News"Paranormal Kentucky, An Uncommon Wealth of Close Encounters with Aliens, Ghosts and Cryptids" was written by Marie Mitchell and Mason Smith, a pair of retired Eastern Kentucky University professors turned paranormal investigators.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFor decades, Rob McNurlin has played in hole-in-the-wall bars, clubs and coffee houses throughout central Appalachia. After McNurlin announced plans to retire, filmmaker Colonel Steven Middleton asked if he could tell the singer’s story. He made the documentary, The Cowboy’s Boot Heel: The Musical Journey of Rob McNurlin.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA group of Tucker County residents are asking the Intermediate Court of Appeals for help learning about a proposed power plant in their community. Also, we hear the second part of our look back at reporting from Point Pleasant columnist Mary Hyre as she went from writing about the "Mason County Monster" to the Silver Bridge collapse in a little more than a year.
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