LGBTQ identities play a key role in Timothy Jay Smith's new political thriller, The Fourth Courier. When I heard Timothy Jay Smith's The Fourth Courier being touted as a "gay political thriller," I couldn't help but be interested. As an avid reader, a...
Ryan Kent is a poet, which makes sense because he's probably better known around this town as a singer. The lyrics he writes for his band, Gritter, are probably similar to a lot of lyrics, in that if you separated them from the music and wrote them down on a piece of...
Some books are crafted by writers, and some are written by storytellers. Land Of The Free by Woodrow "Pack" Landfair (born in Richmond, Virginia) is a book written by a story, which is to say any attempt to unravel the various parallel and intertwining plot lines from...
I've previously let you know about Raven Mack, a writer/zinester/poet/wandering spirit from the Charlottesville area, and his recent quest to bring poetry to the masses through his Rojonekku Hand To Hand Haiku Tournaments. But those events aren't the only things...