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The Sunday Times
Sunday, November, 2, 2008
When I lived in Manhattan, you could get your copy of Sunday's New York Times on Saturday night. I loved hauling it home, turning on Saturday Night Live and scanning the Sunday Magazine, the Book Review, the Wedding section. These days, the Times is my internet home page. I got tired of logging on to photos of Nicole Richie, Britney's latest trip to Starbucks, and Two-Headed Turtles. (I'm not mentioning my internet provider by name, but they know who they are.) So, it's Sunday and I'm scrolling through the Book Review and I notice Susann Cokal's byline. Susann's a professor at VCU, a novelist, a friend, and she appeared in our very first issue of skirt! She's on the cover of Vibe these days, too. Score one for the home team, I thought. A few pages later, I notice another Richmond byline: Tom de Haven. Double score! Two Richmond writers in one Sunday Times Book Review: pretty impressive. Outside of New York, I wonder how many cities can make that claim? 
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ModernGentleman | Skirtastic
Posted Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:17
Traveling about the country, I relish the look on urbanites' faces when I announce that I'm from (read: lately of) Richmond. The 804 doesn't quite carry the metropolitan cache of 212, 415, or 404, but when Richmond shows up on the national radar as it did in the NY Times Book Review, I feel like chiding that friend in NYC who said to me upon my relocation from Atlanta, "So, you're moving from a second-rate city to a third-rate city?" Not so fast, Phineas...our literary hamlet ain't so little anymore.
Now if only we could upgrade the nightlife and pump in big-city bagels, we might just earn some street cred.
(As for my decidedly un-gentleman-like avatar...I have no explanation.)
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Constance | Nice Hair!?
Posted Mon, 11/03/2008 - 20:26
The Modern Gentleman is, in fact, a gentleman. And he looks nothing like this cartoon sporting the bouffant. What happened to gender equity?
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| emyl | These days you'll find books
Posted Tue, 11/11/2008 - 13:18
These days you'll find books by Richmonders Dean King, Ann McMillan, Jon Kukla, Susann Cokal, Tom deHaven, Mary Theobalt, Evans Hopkins, Cathy Maxwell, Nancy Beasley, Gigi Amateau, and Stacy Hawkins Adams...and that's just a few for starters...in bookstores, libraries, and homes across the country. Richmond's literary star shines bright.
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