VQR Events This Week

The 16th annual Virginia Festival of the Book is taking place in Charlottesville this week, and some of the authors whose work you’ve enjoyed in the pages of VQR will be featured speakers. Starting tomorrow and running through Sunday, the Festival offers dozens of events, all open to the public. We’d like to call your attention to events that we’re sponsoring—we hope you’ll join us for some of them.

Reporting from the Front Lines of Pakistan and Afghanistan
Time: Thursday, March 18, 4:00 PM
Location: Harrison Institute Auditorium, UVa Central Grounds

Nicholas Schmidle, J. Malcolm Garcia

Nicholas Schmidle (To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan)and J. Malcolm Garcia (The Khaaijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul) discuss their recent work as reporters in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Both are regular VQR contributors, Nicholas in “Homegrown Jihad” in our Winter issue, and Malcolm in our forthcoming Spring issue on Afghanistan. Part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Louie Palu: War Audio and Photos
Time: Thursday, March 18, 8:00 PM
Location: The Bridge, 209 Monticello Road

Louie Palu

Award-winning documentary photographer Louie Palu debuts his audio slideshows, combining stunning black-and-white frames with pulse-pounding audio, collected in the heat of battle at the height of the “fighting season” in the Farah and Kandahar Provinces of Afghanistan. The slideshows were edited and coproduced by Charlottesville’s Jesse Dukes. Look for a photo essay by Palu on Afghanistan in our Spring issue. Cosponsored by The Bridge Progressive Arts Alliance and LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.

The Future of Print
Time: Friday, March 19, 10:00 AM
Location: UVa Rotunda, UVa Central Grounds

MaryAnne Golon, Donovan Webster

Ed Barber (senior editor at W. W. Norton), MaryAnne Golon (former director of photography, Time), and Donovan Webster (regular contributor to National Geographic) discuss the future of print and publishing in the digital age.

VQR Poetry Series Reading
Time: Friday, March 19, 12:00 PM
Location: UVa Bookstore, 400 Emmett Street S.

David Caplan, Joshua Poteat

A reading by poets David Caplan (In the World He Created According to His Will) and Joshua Poteat (Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World), both featured in the VQR Poetry Series published by the University of Georgia Press. Part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Obama’s Afghanistan
Time: Friday, March 19, 7:30 PM
Location: Jefferson Hall, Hotel C, West Range, UVa Central Grounds

Jason Motlagh, Neil Shea, Elliott D. Woods

VQR contributors Jason Motlagh, Neil Shea, and Elliott D. Woods discuss their recent reporting on Afghanistan, featured in the Spring issue of VQR. Cosponsored by the Jefferson Society of UVa.

All events are free and open to the public. For more info, call us at 434-924-3124 or email vqr@vqronline.org.