Virginia Festival of the Book
27 Mar 2008 5:40 am
30 Mar 2008 5:40 am
Guests Writers: Walter Mosely, Miek Farrell, Roger Mudd, and William Poy Lee
Join us March 26-30, 2008 for the 14th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book! These five days of mostly free literary events are open to the public as we honor book culture and promote reading and literacy.
Immigration and Emigration: Stories
Fri. March 28th, 6:00 PM
William Poy Lee (The Eighth Promise), H.G. Carrillo (Loosing My Espanish), Marsha Mehran (Pomegranate Soup), and Nahid Rachlin (Persian Girls: A Memoir) share their stories.
Moderator: Susan Donovan
Location:
UVa Bookstore
400 Emmet Street S
(434)924-3721
Venue Details
Web Link:
Virginia Festival of the Book City:
Charlottesville
State:
Virginia
I’m hooked on it and keep saving your words for dessert. One of the few books that truly conveys a life as lived from the inside. It is a reader's joy, and a path to empathy and shared humanity.”
—Gloria Steinem
About William
Born 1951 in San Francisco and raised with one root in the traditional Toisanese speaking urban village of SF Chinatown and one root in the heady Bohemian North Beach culture of jazz, Beat poetry, Zen, the counter culture, hedonism, and good Italian food....
Causes William Lee Supports
Kim Baptiste's Culture Clash Hip-Hop Clubs for Youth, SF Bay Area East Bay Meditation Center, availing Buddhist wisdom to inner cities Belladonna Sanctuary...
William’s Favorite Books
Temple of My Familiar, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, The Long Goodbye, The Love Wife, Androgyny, East of Eden, Notes of a Native Son, Seeing Through Shuck: An...