One on One: Grisham Clears The Innocent
“After 36 Years in Prison, 3 Men Cleared in Killing,” a headline in The New York Times streamed...
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Books
One on One: A Literary Capital for a Day
Where is the literary capital of North Carolina? Hillsborough? Pittsboro? Chapel Hill? The big...
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One on One: Four of the Best
Two from the east, two from the mountains: four of our best. Two of North Carolina’s most beloved...
Read MoreOne on One: We Are Number 1
Number one? That is what North Carolinians love to say about our state. We want our state’s things to be the best, biggest, first, most successful, bestselling, and best loved. Think of the Wright Brothers’ first in flight, the...
Read MoreOne on One: 4 Challenging Books That Make For Good Summer Reading
Four new North Carolina books challenge our values and make for good summer reading. Rocky Mount writer Etaf Rum, author of “A Woman Is No Man,” grew up in a Palestinian immigrant family in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1990s and...
Read MoreOne on One: Four Recent Books Featuring North Carolina Indians
Do you need to know a little more about the early contacts between the Native Americans and the European settlers in North Carolina? Help is on the way with four books and four upcoming programs on “North Carolina...
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One on One: Best-Selling Crawdads
North Carolina likes to be number one — at everything. We declare ourselves to be “First in...
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One on One: The Great American Read
Could a North Carolina novel be the country’s best-loved? “The Great American Read,” a PBS series,...
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A Sci-Fi Motorcycle Crash: Talking with David Drake
David Drake almost missed our interview. Although the incident occurred two weeks before we met,...
Read MoreThe Caring Corner, presented by Acorn: End of Life Concerns
Thinking About the “Final Chapter”? These Books May Help “Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.” – Brian Clough With the immense popularity of Atul...
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