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Features
 Wiley Cash, UNCA grad, presents debut novel
He's at City Lights, 7 p.m.,
May 18; Malaprop's, 4 p.m.,
May 19.
Read review.
 Liar's Bench, May 17, 7 p.m., WCU, features tribute to Cherokee chief
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Go-to guy Fred Seely made ENKA happen
Read story about the way business worked in the 1920s.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks at Malaprop's, May 23, for Caleb's Crossing
Read review..
See about
Civil War images exhbit at Fontana Library
Who won IPPY Awards?
See here.
Read interview with Elizabeth Kostova.
See about May 18 author show and Blue Riudge Bookfest..
1980s movement stopped clearcutting
Read about the popular campaign and about Kathryn Newfont's book,
Blue Ridge Commons,
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LOCAL AUTHORS & TELLERS
Blue Ridge Books hosts day of children's authors and Michael Beadle slam,
May 12.
Spring 2012
Georgia Review contains poems by Kathryn Stripling Byter and Robert Morgan
Asheville Poetry Review
announces winners of 2012 William Matthews poetry prize.
Candy Stores I Have Known--novel about Brooklyn youth by local prof.
SEE WHAT WAS.
Frannie Oates does
one-woman show, "The Wild One," for Muddy Sneakers, June 2.
VISITING AUTHORS
Theodore Richards, religious philosopher and Chicago Wisdom Project founder at Malaprop's,
Apr. 27, with novel,
Crucifixion.
SEE WEBSITE.
CONTESTS
The
Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group names Indie winners.
See who.
SIBA
nominations for best Southern books of year
HISTORY & HERITAGE EVENTS
NEW!
Women in the Arts Movie Marathon
, May 18 & 19 in Asheville.
Blue Ridge National Heritage partners schedule
envisioning meetings in 5 counties.
Swannanoa Valley Museum just opened new exhibit on early general stores.
READERS
Jane Austen and Civil War novels subjects of
Let's Talk About It series in Haywood
Bike Magazine calls
Transylvania County best-kept secret in
cover story
Region and world
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2012 announced
Luminarium by Alex Shakar for ficion;
see more.
J.K. Rowling announces title of new novel
The Casual Vacancy is for adults, and chronicles a town at war with itself.
Read more.
Regionalisms in 5 volumes
The five-volume set of Dictionary of American Regional English is now complete.
Read about it and see fun & games.
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