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One on One: You May Have to Wait

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 3, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

You may have to wait to read the “best book ever” “It is one of the best books I ever read, maybe...

One on One: Clearing Out The House

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 27, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

The last box is on the curb. The house is empty and cold and dead. Next week it will be full again...

One on One: The Stains Bleed Through in ‘Wilmington’s Lie’

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 20, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

The stains bleed through in “Wilmington’s Lie.” ”It is not that they were racists. Maybe we could forgive them for that. But they were terrorists, and that is something we should not overlook or forget.” My friend was...

One on One: Arguing About Assassinations With a Fort Bragg Major

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 13, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“I don’t think the U.S. should be in the business of assassinating foreign leaders.” This was not...

One on One: Robert Bashford and The Rule

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 6, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

On New Year’s Eve I lost one of the best friends anybody could ever have. That loss was widely...

One on One: Soong’s Daughters – No Fairy Tale

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 30, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Is it really just a fairy tale? That is what some reviewers of a new book are calling one of my...

DG Martin: A Scraggly Christmas Tree

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 25, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

I remember one Christmas more than all the others. Thinking of it now almost 60 years later,...

One on One: The Thinking Man’s Grisham

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 23, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“For years, I was an excellent lawyer, as honest and effective as you could ever want, and I’m a...

One on One: A Christmas Fool

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 16, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Imagine the Bethlehem Christmas story set in a shopping mall in eastern North Carolina. Think of a...

One on One: North Carolina Books to the Rescue

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 9, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“Are there new North Carolina books that would be good holiday presents for hard-to-give-to...

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