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New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book reading and signing with author and UVA professor Lisa Russ Spaar on Saturday, April 9.
New Dominion Bookshop will host a poetry reading and book launch with UVA professor and poet Lisa Russ Spaar on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 4-5 p.m.
by Sarah Lindenfeld Hall Family history was a spark for Better Luck Next Time, the latest novel by Julia Claiborne Johnson (Col ’81). Set in 1938 Reno, Nevada, then dubbed the world’s divorce capital, the action primarily takes place on the Flying Leap dude ranch, which provided a place for women to stay as they established state residency so they could get divorced. During the Depression, Johnson’s father worked as a cowboy at a Nevada divorce ranch. The similarities between the book and real life mostly end there, Johnson says, but the setting seemed like fertile territory to explore...