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Beyond Land's End: five monologues by Gary Carden at HART theater, Waynesville, N. C.

January 27, 2012 at 7:30pm to January 29, 2012 at 3pm
HART Theater of Haywood County is doing five monologues by Jackson County playwright, Gary Carden on January 27,28,29 at 7:30 (with a Sunday matinee at 3:00.)  Tickets: Adults, $10 and $6.00, student.See More
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ROBERT MORGAN to SPEAK IN LAKE LURE, FEB. 9TH at Lake Lure Inn

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Robert Morgan will be the featured speaker at the Mountains Branch Library's BOOK & BITES literary luncheon on THURSDAY, FEB. 9TH. Cost for luncheon is $25. For reservations call the library at 828-625-0456.See More
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State legislature push to control  Asheville's water

1st public hearing , Raleigh, Jan. 23--televised (click NCLeg.Net at 2 p.m.).   Hearing in Asheville, late February.  Learn more at Save Asheville's Water.  See Citizen-Times article.

New WNC Books include:

fish-think; WNC travel guide; snake-handling mystery; Cherokee studies & more. Read review of Gills & travel guide.

David Madden's novel-writing workshop

Read aboutauthor's 1-week retreat, Feb. 20-25; and about his advice on revising fiction.

See video: A Madden fave--The Waveby Evelyn Scott.

 


YA Authors write about , local school focus on bullying

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Bill Branyon raves about

MacTiernan's Bottle

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Jim Casada is turkey-hunting legend; see limited edition   ||    Civil War programs, Jan. -Apr. @ Smith=McDowell   ||   Firestorm--top 10 cool cafe pick, says Zagat   ||   Spellbound Children's Bookshop moves to 21 Battery Park, Feb. 1   ||  Asheville Wordfest gets $7G from NCHC   ||   NCWN Creative Non-fiction contest   ||   Read about William Matthews Poetry Prize   ||    Algonquin will publish YA and middle-grade books in 2012   ||       


Region and world

Walter Dean Myers named Children's Lit Ambassador

L of C's Center for Book announces news.

Best of the Year: Kirkus' top fiction; PW's top ten; Amazon's top 20; NY Times top illustrated children's books

Eugenides, Patchett--who else?

Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize

with The Sense of an Ending.  Read news.  Read about his works

German Book prize

Eugen Ruge won 2011 German Book Prize for his debut novel, In Times of Fading Light. Read more.


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Community and Local History

Chaos theory and local history

Read about  1890 tobacco history and it's meaning for the New Year.

Two local guys from the 25th

Lenoir was an old man with a young wife; Henderson,   a simple farmer who turned to prayer,  Read more.

 

Forrest Jarrett, Railroad Police

Read about the legendary life of the Madison County native who outfoxed outlaws and wooed world beaters.

Terrell Garren's Civil War in Henderson book

Historian and author Terrell Garren ramps up his research into every soldier's story in Henderson County.  Keep up to date on his blog.


See archive of Community and Local History features.

Book and author features

Four special features! Follow links for more of each.

Headliners

Marijo Moore offers spiritual wisdom

About our time of change:

"Not only is there fear coming from the falling of the masculine energies, there is also fear rising as the feminine energies rise."

Read her blog.

Book Discussions

Swamplandia by Karen Russell is the subject  of Book Discussion X,    March 8, 7 p.m., at Accent on Books.  

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Author Events

Poet doris davenport

Stunnning performance poet is at City Lights Bookstore with new book, "ascent," Feb. 4.

See Poets & Writers page

 

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See full calendar.

Author Features

Heather Newton

Author of Under the Mercy Trees leads one day workshop, "Creating Your Writing Life," at the Unitarian Universalist Church in North Asheville, Feb. 11..

To register, see Flatiron Writers.


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Mary A. Berger

Murder and Mayhem

Posted by Mary A. Berger on January 23, 2012 at 3:18pm

Donald Myracle

Books with Bullying themes

Posted by Donald Myracle on January 22, 2012 at 8:39pm — 1 Comment

Judith Toy

Rain

Posted by Judith Toy on January 21, 2012 at 12:05pm

Joe Epley

From THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Posted by Joe Epley on January 15, 2012 at 11:50am

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