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Ron Rash's Darkly Riveting 'Serena'new
Asheville author Ron Rash’s sweeping, big screen-worthy tale is far more than a gruesome account of the human and environmental costs of large-scale logging.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
02-18-2009 |
Fiction
Family Jewels: Debut Novel From the Owner of Greenville Music Clubnew

Greenville club owner John Jeter releases his debut novel -- a fictional work about fading Southern culture and family legacy told through the eyes of cynical wheel-chair bound music columnist Randol Duncan.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
01-22-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Golden Girl Just Entering Her Primenew
In her tell-all memoir, McClanahan proves she's so much more than sex-pot Southern belle Blanche Devereaux from TV's The Golden Girls.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Summertime and the Reading Is ... Sleazynew
A reviewer's four top picks from small presses are not for the faint of heart.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-22-2005 |
Fiction
Standing Up For the Almost Famousnew
Review of book about nearly successful authors from the southern mountains.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
10-27-2004 |
Nonfiction
Give 'em the (Free) Birdnew
How Lynyrd Skynyrd saved the South -- or at least one Southern-rock writer. Memoir of a former Rolling Stone editor.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
10-27-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews