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One on One: Grisham Clears The Innocent

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 2, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“After 36 Years in Prison, 3 Men Cleared in Killing,” a headline in The New York Times streamed...

One on One: A Literary Capital for a Day

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

Where is the literary capital of North Carolina? Hillsborough? Pittsboro? Chapel Hill? The big...

One on One: Are We Virginia, or West Virginia?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 18, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Are we, politically speaking, more like Virginia or more like its sister state, West Virginia? As William Galston pointed out in the November 12 issue of the Wall Street Journal, it might depend on what time period we are...

One on One: Moonshine to the Rescue

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 11, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Moonshine has come to my rescue. I am always trying to find ways to make North Carolina Number One in something important. Thanks to UNC-Asheville Professor Daniel Pierce, we have a substantial claim to be Number One. In his new...

One on One: The Late Eatery

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“The late.” It is a term I am having to insert too many times as I revise and update “North...

One on One: Four of the Best

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 21, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Two from the east, two from the mountains: four of our best. Two of North Carolina’s most beloved...

One on One: Pat Conroy’s Happy Marriage

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 14, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Does a happy marriage make a better writer? Specifically, did the late great writer Pat Conroy’s...

One on One: Lessons from Rufus

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 7, 2019 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

What lessons can we learn from one of North Carolina’s most colorful political figures who served as attorney general, lost a gubernatorial election, won election as secretary of state, lost that position in disgrace, and then...

One on One: Peronism, Gaullism, Trumpism

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

Trump is going to survive. It is the Republican Party we should be worried about. Donald Trump may...

One on One: North Carolina Authors Help Us Cope

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

Can the struggles chronicled by four North Carolina authors help the rest of us deal with our own everyday challenges? A wife whose beloved husband is crippled by a botched medical procedure? An African American judge breaking...

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