Spring 2013

Richard Nash on the publishing industry, technology, and future of the book A VQR roundtable with industry innovators on how writers can flourish in the digital age Kevin Young on the damaging impact of fake memoirs Julia Cooke on the fine line between friendship and journalism in Havana
Spring 2013

Volume 89, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2013 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Portfolios 
Photography 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Interviews 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Richard Nash (@r_nash) is an independent publishing entrepreneur—VP of Community and Content of Small Demons, founder of Cursor, and Publisher of Red Lemonade.

A VQR Contributing Editor, Julia Cooke’s essays and reporting have appeared in A Public Space, Salon, Tin House, Smithsonian, The Best American Travel Writing 2014, and elsewhere.

Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He previously served as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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