Source book reviewer Richard Dey finds much to appreciate in Carol J. Oja's "Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s" -- and notes the irony that New York was not the center of Modern Music, merely the publishing center for and about it.

Here's the first offering of a new Source feature -- a listing of what will be on locally produced and hosted radio programs in the coming week. Show hosts and program directors are invited to submit information for future posting.

Virgin Islands artists are invited to participate in the third biennial Anguilla International Arts Festival and Competition, to be held Jan. 15-21, 2002. Top prize is $10,000, and five entries will be reproduced on Anguillan postage stamps.

Nineteen youngsters who have been drawing historical landmarks in and around Christiansted as part of their summer art camp experience will exhibit their work Friday evening at the Danica Art Gallery.

Former St. Thomas radio personality Anita Davis reviews the book that the estate of the author of "Gone With the Wind" sought in court to keep off the shelves. The novel, told from the plantation blacks' point of view, "presents the struggle to be free within, rather than without," she says.

The 15th volume of "The Caribbean Writer," the annual literary anthology published by the University of the Virgin Islands, is off the presses and into local bookstores.

Source book reviewer Bette Davis recommends reading Anne Tyler's latest novel, "Back When We Were Grownups," slowly -- so you can put off saying goodbye to the characters.
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People can't get lost anymore, what with modern maps, satellites and cell phones, reviewer Richard Dey writes, but they surely could in the past, and some have never found their way again. That's what the non-fiction book "Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten" is all about.

Meet "Moon Rooster," would-be hero of the latest in a succession of mainstream publishers' picture books by V.I. children's authors Phillis and David Gershator. He's a young doodledoo who figures making the moon rise night after night is really something to crow about.

"The Caribbean Writer" at the University of the Virgin Islands has announced the winners of literary awards for its most recent issue. And one of the winners is the UVI public information director.