Why should authors participate in book festivals?
by Bill Ramsey
If a book is to sell, the author needs to effectively promote it. The question is how and where to do it. Do you hit the road a… View »
"My novel," Sheldon Neuringer writes, "is called Candy Stores I Have Known. It is a coming-of-age story about a youth who grows up in Brooklyn, NY during the 1940's and 1950's."
T… View »
10th Annual Spring Literary Festival at WCU
Sun., Mar. 18 through Thurs., Mar. 22
See schedule and more at Festival website
The authors:
Mary Adams.
Sound-and-metaphor-rich poet; Engli… View »
Short Story Glory:
A review of Mike Hopping's book of stories, MacTiernan's Bottle
By Bill Branyon
Should you ever find yourself in Scheherazade’s predicament of havi… View »
Monthly
Liar's Bench
Annual
Asheville Storytelling Circle
Poetry Alive
Wordfest
The Storytelling Center of Southern Appalachians at Bryson City
Hendersonville Live
Museum of the Cherokee
North Caroli… View »
What the Wilmington Race Riot Report says about Charles Aycock
The Wilmington Race Riot report, commissioned by N.C. on the anniversary of the 1898 event, and published in 2006, is cited in de… View »
September 23, 2011 program featured authors celebrating the land
&n Poets, authors, and musicians came together to celebrate the Great Smoky Mountains in Sy… View »
Read and discuss one of the great new authors in world literature
@Battery Park Book Exchange, Thurs. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
Yiyun Lee, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li, a native of B… View »
Literature new in trade paper
September, 2011
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House, 256 pages). Short stories by Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner; MacArthur Fello… View »
