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N.C. Events: Dessen, Holmstedt & Carter

Art Taylor / July 24, 2009

Just a quick look at what’s on tap over the next few days on the N.C. lit scene. First up, […]

Art Taylor / July 20, 2009

Alexandra Sokoloff’s new novel, The Unseen, takes as its starting point a set of real-life experiments done by Dr. Joseph

Art Taylor / July 16, 2009

Yes, I know it’s been a quiet week on the blog here, but many reasons why. So what have I

This weekend’s events feature a couple of authors already profiled on this site — both on Friday, July 10. Laura

Laura Brodie‘s The Widow’s Season hits the ground running with a smart, no-nonsense sentence that pulls readers immediately into the novel’s central

With the Fourth of July weekend ahead, most bookstores are taking a small hiatus from their regular schedule of readings

Art Taylor / June 26, 2009

One of this weekend’s top literary events in North Carolina has already gotten a plug earlier this week, when an

Art Taylor / June 24, 2009

As part of my various jobs, I keep tabs on two literary festivals in the Carolinas and Virginia — and

Art Taylor / June 19, 2009

The coming week brings big-name authors to two bookstores in the Triangle. Joseph O’Neill, who won the PEN/Faulkner Award (and

As some readers here may know, I’m getting married on Saturday, June 6, and will soon be flying off to

The North Carolina Literary Festival has announced that Anna Deavere Smith — actress, playwright and author — will deliver the

Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda seems to have taken a shine to a couple of North Carolina’s finest writers