Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 11, 1990 TAG: 9003143288
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By MIKE MAYO BOOK PAGE EDITOR
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Next Saturday at 9:30 a.m., the 30th annual Literary Festival will be held at Hollins College. The festival is a one-day event devoted to readings of fiction, poetry and, occasionally, non- fiction; and panel discussions of student poetry.
The festival was started by Louis Rubin, former editor of this page, in 1960. In the years since dozens of the best writers in the English language have read from their work on the third Saturday in March. I've seen a lot of them. Among the most memorable have been Wright Morris's descriptions of Italy, Henry Taylor's poems about rural Virginia, Sharyn McCrumb on Scotland, Pax Davis's chapter from a spy novel, and Lee Smith's "Paralyzed, a True Story." This year, novelists Madison Smartt Bell and Jean Gould, and poet Elizabeth Spires will read. Admission is free.
The correction concerns the Feb. 25 book page. In her review of the novel, "Riding High," Lynn Eckman used the phrase, "to the manner born" to describe the wealthy characters. She was, of course, quoting "Hamlet": "But to my mind, - though I am a native here, And to the manner born, - it is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance." Alas, the quote was changed to the common mistake "to the manor born."
by CNB