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One on One: Four Books to Entertain and Disturb

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 3, 2017 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

If you are willing to be both entertained and disturbed by your summer vacation books, I have four new volumes for your consideration: two books by important photographers and two literary mysteries that raise important public...

NATJA Comes To Orange County Next Week

Posted by Aaron Keck | May 10, 2017 | News Around Town

NATJA is the North American Travel Journalists Association – and they’re bringing more than 80 attendees to Orange County.

One on One: Stealing our Shadows

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 17, 2016 | D.G. Martin

Has this year’s presidential election stolen our shadows? “What do you mean?” I can hear you asking that question. To understand about such shadows, it helps to read North Carolina beloved former poet laureate...

Why it’s basketball, not politics, on our minds

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 29, 2016 | D.G. Martin

Get used to it! Even though we are in the middle of a national election contest with choices so varied, so unusual, so important, and with a possible result that would stretch the traditions of American democracy… Even...

European history lessons for North Carolinians

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 5, 2016 | D.G. Martin

What does a new 800-page history of 20th Century Europe have to do with North Carolina politics of the 21st Century? First, a few words about the book itself, “Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century,” by...

An important author’s struggles can help his readers

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 10, 2015 | D.G. Martin

You can’t go home again. This is what Thomas Wolfe learned after his thinly disguised autobiographical novel cast some of his family and neighbors in Asheville in unflattering roles. It is always dangerous for a successful...

Good for Nicholas Sparks, good for North Carolina

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 20, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“My books are all different,” Nicholas Sparks, the No. 1 New York Times best selling author who lives in New Bern, told a group of 500 fans at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Alumni Center last week. Except, he says, for two things. One is...

Summer’s Final Reading Assignments

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

A classic love story full of mountain music from one of North Carolina’s greatest living balladeers, a loving portrait of a North Carolina beach by a modern prophet of coastal catastrophe, a fictional look into the recent past...

Major Golsteyn and General Noriega: In Headlines and Vacation Books

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 6, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Headline news stories in recent few days reported the U.S. Army’s disciplining of Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who was once seen as a hero for his service with the Special Forces in Afghanistan. Golsteyn was accused of killing an...

The Biggest News For Me

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 30, 2015 | D.G. Martin

The biggest news for me this year? Not ISIS, not Obamacare, not gay marriage, and not even the earth-shaking tragedy in Charleston. This year’s big news is that there are no more peaches at the Auman farm in West End near...

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