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Seven new books every North Carolinian should know about

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin

There is no way to read them all. No, and we cannot even know about all of the more than 1,000 books about our state or by authors with North Carolina connections. But every year there are a few books that, for one reason or...

Clyde Edgerton: Translating memories into fiction

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 20, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Is he just writing about himself? The many fans of Wilmington-based author Clyde Edgerton often ask this question when they are reading his books a they come to parts that are just too real to be made up. As Edgerton explains on...

How to save a mountain

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 18, 2012 | D.G. Martin

There were lots of reasons some people in Avery County wanted to stop a rock mining operation on the beautiful Belview mountainside. *Tracy and her Aunt Ollie, because preliminary blasting operations had cracked the foundation...

How To Write A Best-Selling Book: An Expert's Advice

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 15, 2012 | D.G. Martin

How would you like for Nicholas Sparks to teach you how to write a best-selling book? The author of New York Times #1 bestselling books will tell us how it is done on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch this (Sunday) afternoon at...

Back In Time, Jill McCorkle's Timelessness

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 12, 2012 | D.G. Martin

About Jill McCorkle’s upcoming new novel, Lee Smith says it is McCorkle’s “best ever.” Wow! This news will stir up the enthusiastic fans that McCorkle earned with her novels (“The Cheer Leader,” “July 7th,” “Tending to...

Who’s cleaning up for the convention company coming?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 11, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“Working with a bunch of orthopedic surgeons.” This was Dr. Dan Murrey’s answer to my question about why he thought he could handle a task that seems so unmanageable. Murrey is the executive director of Charlotte’s host...

Phillip Manning and Andrea Reusing on Wednesday's Bookwatch

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 5, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Good news for book fans! Two authors, Phillip Manning and Andrea Reusing, will be featured this week on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch. Manning and Reusing will appear Wednesday, June 6, on UNC-TV’s MX channel, which is...

"Aftermathing" the Edwards trial

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 2, 2012 | D.G. Martin

I wish Jimmy Johnson had given, and John Edwards had heeded, the same warning Johnson gave me when I first ran for political office almost 30 years ago. Johnson, a successful businessman, helped Bob Scott win the governor’s...

Doris Betts and Reynolds Price: Filling the empty space

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 28, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Who writes for us now? The question came up again with the death of Doris Betts, the beloved teacher and writer, a few weeks ago, reminding us that we have still not gotten used to a North Carolina without Reynolds Price...

Charles Frazier talks about Nightwoods (paperback June 12)

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“No writer today crafts more exquisite sentences than Charles Frazier. The North Carolina native is famous for ‘Cold Mountain,’ his best-selling and critically acclaimed 1997 debut novel about the Civil War.…...

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