North Carolina Bookwatch 2003 - 2004 Podcast
1) Timothy Silver: Mount Mitchell & The Black Mountains
Timothy Silver is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His previous publications include A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in Sout...Show More
2) Ron Rash: One Foot in Eden
The book impressed the selection committee, not only with its captivating story line, but also because Rash's voice lends such authenticity to the story's characters and setting.
3) Virginia Holdman: Rescuing Patty Hearst
......of Chapel Hill and taught creative writing in public schools, community women's centers, and hospices. From 1999 to 2001, she was the writer in residence at Duke University Medical Center, where...Show More
4) Gwendoline Fortune: Growing Up Nigger Rich
Born in Houston, Texas, Gwendoline Y. Fortune grew up hearing stories of her "mixed blood" heritage: a free-born black great-grandfather, Native Americans, Scot-Irishmen, a cowboy grandfather, a Confe...Show More
5) Reynolds Price:A Serious Way of Wondering
Among Reynolds Price's thirty-five volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, essays and translations are many works of religious inquiry that explore topics at the forefront of theological debate. In his lat...Show More
6) Haven Kimmel: The Solace of Leaving Early
Haven Kimmel's irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. This Durham native with the "Zippy" Nickname joins D.G. Martin to discuss ...Show More