Wouldn’t you rather see a writer write than talk?
For my assignment I went to go see the presentation of the 6th annual VCU First Novelist Award at the Richmond Salons on November 16, 2007. This event honored Peter Orner for his novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo . I found this event rather disappointing and I can see why few students care about these kinds of things. For starters, the term “first novelist” has a quiet mistakenly populist tone to it. Whereas, I had come to the event as a not just a student, but…
