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New Novel Situates a Worst-Case Scenario in Western North Carolinanew

In his new novel, One Second After, Bill Forstchen paints a distinctly local picture of post-electric life. A history professor who's penned 40-some books, he imagines the end of the world as we know it, telling a tale of what he thinks it would be like in Western North Carolina.
Mountain Xpress  |  Jon Elliston  |  07-10-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Forstchen, One Second After, novels

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
Tags: fiction, John Jeter, Southern lit, The Plunder Room

Graphic Novelist Hope Larson Debuts New Booknew

Larson, a rising star in the world of graphic novels, is back with her new tale of two nerdy girls at summer camp, Chiggers.
Mountain Xpress  |  Anne Fitten Glenn  |  06-26-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: graphic novels, cartoons, Chiggers, Hope Larson

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
Tags: My First Five Husbands ... And the Ones Who Got Away, Rue McClanahan

Reading Eric Rudolph's Mindnew

Maryanne Vollers probes Rudolph's background and psychology to learn why he became a terrorist, drawing on her exclusive correspondence with him.
Mountain Xpress  |  Jon Elliston  |  12-29-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lone Wolf, Maryanne Vollers

New Materialnew

Writer David Sedaris says he's never regretted exposing the idiosyncracies of his family members to a global audience.
Mountain Xpress  |  Melanie McGee  |  07-01-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Oh, I Could Read a Case of You!new

A book looks at famously drunk writers, their habits, their battles and their very rare recoveries.
Mountain Xpress  |  Cecil Bothwell  |  10-27-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Lowell, Thomas Wolfe, Carson McCullers, Drinking Companion: Alcohol and Writers' Lives, f. scott fitzgerald, Jack London, James Dickey, John Cheever, Kelly Boler, Kingsley Amis, Tennessee Williams

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
Tags: r.e.m., Drive By Truckers, Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South, Mark Kemp, Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, Doctor John, Jason and the Scorchers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stone, Warren Haynes

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