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The Veil by Taylor Harris (Hypocrite Press) 

For many students today, Poe Alley is simply a well-traveled route on the way to class or back home to their dorms.  For tourists it is just one of countless opportunities to stop and take a snapshot of the beauty of UVA’s well-manicured grounds.  But for Taylor Harris, the author of the recently published essay The Veil, the sights, sounds, and feel of Poe Alley represents something that is not so apparent to the naked eye.

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Up until a few weeks ago I had never heard of Hypocrite Press.  But as someone much wiser than I once said:  “It’s always better late, than never”.  As it turns out the small, independent press has been around in Charlottesville for well over fifteen years.  Founded in 1991, Hypocrite Press states as its mission statement:

…to promote awareness of, and a healthy critical stance toward, the underground subculture of downtown Charlottesville by printing and distributing the works of young local authors who choose to write about their lives in Charlottesville.

To date, Hypocrite Press lists eleven books currently available in print through Lulu, the online retailer and print on demand self-publishing website.  Many of Hypocrite’s early works including The Noble Salvage:  A Song of the South, Laughing Friends Deride, and Fandango depict the Boho-scene of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall in the early to mid 1990’s and serve as important historical and cultural snapshots into the lives of Charlottesville’s twenty-somethings before the “boom” of the past decade. »Read More

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