Columbia Pike: Through the Lens of Community
Opens August 31!

Make plans to visit this fall to see a powerful new photography collection. Columbia Pike: Through the Lens of Community, a unique exhibition of photographs at the Library of Virginia, celebrates the extraordinary cultural diversity found within a single community in Northern Virginia.

More than 130 languages are spoken in Arlington County, with the densest concentration along the Pike. Columbia Pike Documentary Project photographers, whose personal connections to the community allowed them to capture the strength, pride, resilience, and beauty of so many overlapping cultures, created the works on view. This free exhibition runs August 31, 2021–January 8, 2022, in the Exhibition Gallery.

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In-Person Weinstein Author Series Talks Return Next Month

Please join us in person in the Library's Lecture Hall on Tuesday, September 14 at 6:00 PM for a free Carole Weinstein Author Series talk by author and historian Dr. Karen L. Cox on her book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. Please note this talk will not be available online. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. The Carole Weinstein Author Series supports the literary arts by bringing both new and well-known authors to the Library of Virginia through online or in-person events. This book is available online from the Virginia Shop. For more information, contact Dawn Greggs at 804.692.3813 or dawn.greggs@lva.virginia.gov.

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Library of Virginia Literary Awards October 12–16

Mark your calendar for the 24th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration and related events, held October 12–16, 2021, presented by Dominion Energy. Finalists for the Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Awards will be announced later this month, along with the Art in Literature: The Mary Lynn Kotz Award honoree.

Online voting for the People’s Choice Awards continues through August 31, 2021.

The People’s Choice Awards represent the most-requested titles by Virginia authors in fiction and nonfiction published in the past year. For nonfiction, books on Virginia subjects are also eligible. The winners will be announced on Saturday, October 16 at the Literary Awards Celebration. Don’t miss your chance to cast a vote and support your favorites from among the finalists!

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Free Shipping Over $35 in August at The Virginia Shop

Shake off those back-to-school blues with free shipping on all orders over $35 from The Virginia Shop this August! Browse our selection of books, local finds, literary gifts, and more on our website.

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