On Sunday, October 16, at 2:00 pm, the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame will induct three new members. Clyde Edgerton, Margaret Maron, and Carl Sandburg will join the fifty-seven inductees currently enshrined, in a ceremony at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines. The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame […]
Announcing the 2016 North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Inductees
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“Heads On Fire: Essays on Southern Fiction,” edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund
January 15, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by William Walsh There is a reason I do not own a Kindle, a Fire HDX, an iPad Air, an HP Omni, or any of the many e-book readers, and it’s not because I’m against modern technology or I’m some hermit-like curmudgeon living in a 1950s cave who thinks the old way of […]
March Read of the Month: “The Books that Mattered,” by Frye Gaillard
March 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Allen Mendenhall “My first encounters with books were disappointing.” That’s a curious opening line for a memoir about reading inspirational books, but an apt one, too, because Frye Gaillard anticipates right away how he will treat reading: not as an activity undertaken in isolation or as an exercise liberating readers from the quotidian […]
The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
August 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton Reviewed by Niles Reddick Once again, former Guggenheim fellow Clyde Edgerton has delivered a pitch-perfect piece of fiction that will delight readers. This time, his tenth novel The Night Train will prove to audiences that Edgerton’s creative genius is as good as ever in delivering […]