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UVA Press Presents
by The University of Virginia Press
Conversations with the authors of the University of Virginia Press.
Episodes
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UVA Press Presents: Black Landscapes Matter
The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter...
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UVA Press Presents: Three Rings
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the…
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UVA Press Presents: Empire of Diamonds
In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of...
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UVA Press Presents: Bad Men
How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature…
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UVA Press Presents: Traces of J.B. Jackson
J. B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of the greatest pioneer in landscape studies, Helen Horowitz shares with us a man who focused on what he regarded as the essential…
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UVA Press Presents: The Life of William Faulkner
Carl Rollyson has a new two volume biography of William Faulkner hot off the presses. Professor Emeritus Stephen Railton asks him about what drew him to Faulkner, what his biography brings to Faulkner scholarship, and the nature of biography and literary criticism.
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