The Virginia Book Festival
March 26th, 2011 - (1 Comments)
With Good Reason brings you highlights from the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book. Producer Thomas Pierce interviews Scott Simon – host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday – about his newest book, Baby, We Were Meant For Each Other. It shares the story of how he and his wife found true love by adopting two [...]
The Future of the Book
February 12th, 2011 - (2 Comments)
Some say that books – that is, the printed, non-digital variety – are destined for the trash heap. Call it the Age of the Kindle. Ralph Cohen (James Madison University) spent a lifetime collecting books, many of them very rare. But recently, after 70 years book collecting, he decided to give away thousands of them. [...]
