PHOTOPHILE- Write stuff: Authors regale each other at Carr's Hill

Carr's Hill, home of UVA President John Casteen, braces for the onslaught of writers, publishers and readers.
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Four days of book festing, and the literati are ready for a drink. And to chow down. 

And what better place to belly up than Carr's Hill, the setting for the March 29 Authors' Reception at this year's Virginia Festival of the Book, as it pretty much is every year. Fans jockeyed to get a word with M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell. His buddy, Alan Alda, was spotted at the Omni, but we couldn't find him at the reception. The moussaka was highly touted, and a puffy chocolate brownie dessert with serve-your-own whipped cream had the crowd piling it on.

Sorry, you're not on the list. Festival program director Nancy Damon, with help from Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Jeanine Palin, greets guests and lets the Hook in anyway.
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Former Virginia Governor Linwood Holton and former First Lady Jinks Holton have plenty of experience doing the meet and greet, and it shows as they host the reception with their son, Professor Woody Holton.
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Book fest associate program director/poet Kevin McFadden and his wife, Angie Hogan, with Mike Farrell, who filled up during two trips to Integral Yoga before the reception.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey and Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways discuss award fatigue.
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Hook 2003 fiction winner Deborah Prum and book promotion expert Bella Stander chat with Edie and Fred Ramey, who publishes what he calls "commercial literature" at Unbridled Books.
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JoAnn Christy joins her friend Marcia Silvermetz, who wrote Gertrude the Albino Frog and Her Friend Rupert the Turtle.
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Hampton Roads publisher Bob Friedman considers the kilt worn by Charles Randolph Bruce, who writes the Rebel King series about Robert Bruce with Carolyn Hale Bruce.
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More Scots: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities director Rob Vaughan with Ulster-Scots Writing, an Anthology editor Frank Ferguson, who crossed the pond with Bob and Angela Welch to explain the meaning of Scots-Irish at the Book Fest.
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