Life Lessons on the Green

David Cook’s golf novel adapted to the big screen

David Cook’s golf novel adapted to the big screen

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Required Reading

Creative writing professor Ann Beattie recently published Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, an exploration of the elusive first lady, Pat Nixon.You’ve been repeatedly credited—despite your protests—with being a…

Letters to the Editor

I was delighted to find in the Fall 2011 issue the admirable account of the debt troubles caused by Uncle Sam’s fiscal recklessness (“Our National ‘Time Bomb’”).Were the article published…

How to Keep New Hires

Lilith Christiansen (Com ’95) explores why people stay at their jobs

Ever search for a new job ... on the job? According to Lilith Christiansen (Com ’95), management consultant, and co-author of the book Successful Onboarding, almost one third of new…

What percentage of your reading—for pleasure or coursework—is done digitally?

Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: April through June 2011

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Required Reading: Gary Gallagher

History professor Gary Gallagher recently published his sixth book about the Civil War, The Union War.What book first ignited your interest in the Civil War?The American Heritage Picture History of…

How Much—or Little—Do College Students Learn?

New book uses data to argue that many students learn little due to lack of rigor

In President Obama’s first speech to Congress, he said, “By 2020, American will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” In the past decade, the…

Chick Lit Flick

Emily Giffin’s debut novel adapted to the big screen

You know you’ve arrived when you have a cameo in a movie based on your bestselling novel. Emily Giffin (Law ‘97) appears in the movie adaptation of her book Something…

Becoming Tina Fey

Tongue-in-cheek memoir maps rise to fame

A look at Fey's new book, Bossypants

What’s the future of books in a digital world?

“The most important thing to point out,” says Michael Suarez, director of U.Va.‘s Rare Book School, “is that despite lots of writing to the contrary, the book is not dead.”…

How to Write a Love Poem

Advice for crafting words of affection

Though most Americans aren’t regular readers of poems, few have never written one. And chances are that when they did, their subject was love. Who can resist a summertime letter…

Five New Books by Alumni and Faculty

For centuries, scholarship has misrepresented the medieval French celebration of the Feast of Fools as a rowdy holiday when the clergy performed services clothed in strange costumes, sang obscene songs…