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Book Talk at the Library of Virginia
Thursday, July 31, 2008
_The Tangierman's Lament and Other Tales of Virginia_ by Earl Swift
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
FREE EVENT
Go where the story is—that's one tenet of journalism Earl Swift, staff writer
for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, has had little trouble following. In two decades
of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed—even spelunked—a
singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. He discusses
his collection of some 20 Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as
tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer
Prize–nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake Bay island of Tangier,
home to a Methodist enclave over 200 years old, with an economy almost
wholly dependent on the blue crab. The gradual exodus of the island's young
people and the dwindling crab hauls point to an inevitable extinction that finds
a dramatic metaphor in the erosion of the island itself, which is literally
disappearing beneath its inhabitants' feet.
The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
Richmond. Free parking is available underneath the building.
Copies of _The Tangierman’s Lament_ are available in the Virginia Shop at the
Library of Virginia: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .
www.lva.virginia.gov
804.692.3500
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