Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 7, 1993 TAG: 9303070210
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MIKE MAYO, Book Page Editor
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
LOCAL BOOK NEWS
Congratulations to Virginia Tech professor Katherine Soniat. Her third collection of poetry, "A Shared Life," won the Edwin Ford Piper Award from the University of Iowa Press, which will publish the book later this year. The Piper Award recognizes "excellence in the work of a poet in midcareer." Katherine Soniat's first two books are "Notes of Departure" and "Cracking Eggs."
The Rams Head Bookstore and the Roanoke College History Department are sponsoring a lecture by Bernard Cornwell on March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Olin Hall. Cornwell is the author of a popular series of historical novels about a character named Sharpe. His new novel, "Rebel," begins a series about the Civil War. Cornwell has been widely praised for the accuracy of his research. That will be the topic of his talk, and he'll be signing books afterward.
Ann Goethe will sign copies of her first novel, "Midnight Lemonade," published by Delacorte Press, on March 19, at Books, Strings and Things in Blacksburg and on Saturday at BS&T in Roanoke.
Saturday the 33rd annual Literary Festival will take place at Hollins College. Reading this year are Carolyn Chute ("The Beans of Egypt, Maine"), Brett Laidlaw ("Blue Bel Air") and Larry Levis ("The Widening Spell of the Leaves"). As always, the festival begins with registration, coffee and tea in the Main Building at 9:30 a.m. The readings are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the Dana Science Building, but it usually takes folks a little longer than that to get from the Green Drawing Room to Babcock Auditorium. Admission is free. There's a charge for lunch, and it's always delicious.
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