Is It Shameless Self-Promotion If It’s Your Wife You’re Bragging About?
Looking for some good weekend reading? Let me suggest some recent very short fiction by Tara Laskowski — a completely […]
Reviews/Recommendations
N.C. Events, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
N.C. Lit Festival Kicks-Off On Sept. 10
N.C. friends, don’t forget: The 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival takes place this weekend, Sept. 10-12, at UNC-Chapel Hill. Thursday
Interviews, Mysteries/Thrillers, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
Margaret Maron Talks About “Sand Sharks”
After tackling immigration issues in Hard Row and the crisis of rampant residential and commercial overdevelopment in Death’s Half Acre,
Literary News, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
N.C. News: Carrboro Essayist Krista Bremer Wins $25,000 Rona Jaffe Award
Krista Bremer of Carrboro, award-winning essayist and associate publisher of The Sun, has been named as one of six writers
D.C. Events, Fall for the Book, George Mason University, Interviews, Writing
Tara Laskowski Interviews Jessica Anthony
I’m pleased today to host an interview between two great writers — and to present this interview as the first
N.C. Events, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
Erica Eisdorfer’s “The Wet Nurse’s Tale”
Erica Eisdorfer, long-time manager of the Bull’s Head Bookshop in Chapel Hill, has been earning rave reviews for her new
N.C. Events, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
N.C. Events… Quickly
Apologies that my updates here have been so few and far between. At the point where the end of the
N.C. Events, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
N.C. Events: Regulator Bookshop Hosts Local Launch for “Love Is A Four-Letter Word”
Since my interview with Michael Taeckens a few weeks back, he’s been making the rounds with a series of appearances
Literary News, Mysteries/Thrillers, North Carolina Literature, Poetry, Southern Literature
NC Literary Review: New Issue, New Look
The North Carolina Literary Review has just announced the publication of its 2009 issue, boasting a focus on N.C. drama
Poetry
A Quick Shout-Out to The Poetry Instigator
The mention of poet Fred Chappell in my previous post (I’m working through his enjoyable but more-challenging-than-I’d-expected new collection, Shadow
Mysteries/Thrillers, N.C. Events, North Carolina Literature, Southern Literature
N.C. Events: Margaret Maron’s Sand Sharks & Pamela Pease’s Pop-Up Tour de Frances
Topping the list of this weekend’s literary events is an annual favorite: the debut of Margaret Maron‘s latest Deborah Knott
Mysteries/Thrillers
Mysteries Upon Mysteries
In my classes on crime fiction, I’ve sometimes likened literary analysis and criticism to a kind of detection: We read