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A PORTRAIT BY KINCAID. Jim Kincaid, the engaging newscaster and commentator on WVEC-TV, News Channel 13, has written a warm chronicle of his father-in-law, Theodore Wildanger, an accomplished French-born painter who died in 1989 in Elam, the Southside community Kincaid calls home. Kincaid's narrative accompanies the reproduction of two dozen of Wildanger's brilliant and passionate paintings. The 60-page book is titled "Theo" ($21.95). For additional information, or to order a copy ($24 by mail), write Wildanger Collection Ltd., P.O. Box 175, Norfolk, Va. 23501 or call 640-8767.

ODU LITERARY FESTIVAL. Derek Walcott, the 1992 Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, will open the annual Literary Festival at Old Dominion University at 8 p.m. Monday in Room 102 of the Mills Godwin Building. He will read from his play "The Odyssey." Admission is by donation. Other sessions are open to the public without charge.

Participants are:

* Scott Carins of the ODU faculty, and Susan Power, author of "The Glass Dancer," who will speak at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Webb Center.

* Luis Francia, editor of an anthology of 20th-century Philippine literature, who will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Diehn F&PA; Center.

* Richard Garcia, author of "The Flying Garcias," and Janet Peery, short-story writer and a member of the ODU faculty, who will speak at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Diehn F&PA; Center.

* Larry Levis, a poet and member of the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, who will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Diehn F&PA; Center.

* Jeannette Drake, a native of Newport News who is poet-in-the-schools for the Richmond Arts and Humanities Center, and Evelina Galang, a writer of fiction and non-fiction and member of the ODU faculty, who will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Webb Center.

* Kenneth Carroll, president of the African-American Writers Guild, and Mike Pearson, author of "Imagined Places" and "A Place That's Known" and an ODU faculty member, who will speak at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Webb Center.

* Ed Jones, author of "Lost in The City," who will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Diehn F&PA; Center.

For additional information, call 683-4023.

SNIFFEN AT THE MARINERS'. Harold S. Sniffen, curator emeritus of The Mariners' Museum, will autograph copies of his book, "Jacobsen's Painted Ships on Painted Oceans," from 4 to 6 p.m. today in The Museum Shop. The book (100 color illustrations, 180 pages, $75) is published by the museum and examines the life and work of marine artist Antonio Jacobsen, who painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels between 1873 and 1919.

COOK BY THE BOOK. Now there's a cookbook for the man of the house: "Dad's Cookbook," written and published by Richmond video entrepreneur Ed Compton. A former administrator for the Medical College of Virginia Cancer Center, Compton now produces and distributes how-to video-book packages. The cookbook, designed like a mechanic's manual, provides dozens of easy-to-follow recipes for more than 100 dishes. Selections include such culinary treats as "frankfurter-bean soup," "Navy steak" and "fruity French toast." The book ($9.95) is available in hospital gift shops, including Sentara Hampton General Hospital.

BUTTERFLIES OF DELMARVA. An illustrated field guide to 61 species of butterflies found on the Eastern Shore of Virginia has been published by Tidewater Publishers of Centreville, Md. The book is "Butterflies of Delmarva" (132 photographs, $12.95) by Elton N. Woodbury, and it includes descriptions of butterfly wing patterns as well as information on food sources, habitat and the range of each butterfly. For additional information, write Tidewater Publishers, P.O. Box 456, Centreville, Md., 21617 or call (800) 638-7641.

TWAIN IN GERMAN. The publishing house of Edition Atelier Verlag in Vienna, Austria, has released an edition in German of "Our Famous Guest: Mark Twain in Vienna" by Carl Dolmetsch, professor of English emeritus at The College of William and Mary. The book, "Unser Beruehmter Gast: Mark Twain in Wien," was translated by Gunther Martin, a Viennese drama critic and poet, and by Dolmetsch. An account of Twain's sojourn in Vienna in 1897-99, Dolmetsch's book was originally published in December 1992 by the University of Georgia Press.

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