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A look at the Kingston WritersFest

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Tommy Vallier 0 Comments Abena Beloved Green, Allison Chicholm, authors, book reading, books, community writers, Cyrena Fiel, Damian Tarnopolsky, Dave Meslin, Eric Friesen, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, kingston events, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), Kingston WritersFest, Lee Airton, Lee Maracle, literature, Luna Ferguson, M.G. Vassanji, Robert Lewis, Viva Voce

It’s a good weekend to be a book lover (or a book writer) in Kingston, as the annual Kingston WritersFest

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Kingston WritersFest presents Charles Frazier in Conversation

November 6, 2018 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Charles Frazier, civil unrest, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate White House, Eric Friesen, historical novel, history, Jefferson Davis, Kingston, Kingston WritersFest, Kingstonist, novel, racial tension, racism, slavery, the US, Trump, Varina, Varina Davis

Twenty years after he released the best-selling historical novel Cold Mountain, writer Charles Frazier released Varina earlier this year –