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Charlottesville: Novelist and musician team up for book reading, acoustic set

Crystal Graham
Alli Dyer and Guion Pratt
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New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host an event with novelist Alli Dyer and musician Guion Pratt on Friday at 7 p.m.

Dyer will be reading from her debut novel, Strange Folk, and Guion Pratt will be performing an acoustic set of his music.

Dyer grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia where her family has lived for generations. For the last decade, she has worked in entertainment and book publishing and now lives in Los Angeles. Strange Folk is her first novel.

Pratt is a songwriter, poet and translator. He is the recipient of an Anne Williams Burrus/Academy of American Poets Prize in Poetry and holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow. In 2015, Pratt released a collection of songs called Locust Avenue under the band name Nettles. He has since released a trilogy of instrumental ambient records and intends to one day soon release a perpetually almost-finished album of new songs.

This in-person event is co-sponsored by WriterHouse and will be free to attend and open to the public.

New Dominion Bookshop is located at 404 E Main St. on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville.

Crystal Graham

Crystal Graham

Crystal Abbe Graham is the regional editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, she has worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor for several Virginia publications, written a book, and garnered more than a dozen Virginia Press Association awards for writing and graphic design. She was the co-host of "Viewpoints," a weekly TV news show, and co-host of Virginia Tonight, a nightly TV news show on PBS. Her work on "Virginia Tonight" earned her a national Telly award for excellence in television.