AltWeeklies Wire
Laurent Dubois discusses Haiti: The Aftershocks of Historynew
"A lot of what we see today is the result of recent history, the last 30, 40 years. It's not a kind of inexorable story that is how it had to happen from 1804. In the 19th century, Haiti was quite economically successful."
INDY Week |
Jay O'Berski |
01-11-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Haiti, Laurent Dubois
Adult Fantasy Author Lev Grossman on His Work, Harry Potter and Evelyn Waughnew
No, it's not the Harry Potter series—it's The Magicians by Lev Grossman, an adult take on the Hogwarts mythos that took the fantasy subgenre by storm in 2009 (and which is decidedly not for kids).
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Gerry Canavan |
08-24-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Restaurateur Andrea Reusing Pens a Local Culinary Roadmapnew
Cooking in the Moment is organized into sections for each season, within which Reusing provides recipes and information keyed almost week by week to the Central North Carolina schedule of what's fresh.
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Chris Vitiello |
04-07-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Angela Davis-Gardner Talks About Her New Novel, 'Butterfly's Child'new
Puccini's classic opera Madame Butterfly ends with the title character's love agreeing to raise their child with his American wife. Raleigh resident Davis-Gardner's fourth novel asks, "What happened next?"
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Zack Smith |
04-05-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
New Literary Journal Bull Spec Celebrates First Anniversarynew
Bull Spec is a magazine of "speculative fiction," a catchall term for sci-fi, horror, epic fantasy, superheroes, sword-and-sorcery and alternate history. There's nothing quite like it.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
01-10-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bull Spec
Nicholas Sparks Discusses the Craftnew
Since the publication of The Notebook in 1996, New Bern's Nicholas Sparks has become the definition of a blockbuster writer with his tales of tragic lovers set against the Carolina coast.
INDY Week |
Zack Smith |
09-20-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nicholas Sparks
William Gibson Discusses Memory, Twitter and His Latest Novelnew
Gibson, whose early works -- especially his 1984 debut, Neuromancer -- epitomized cyberpunk literature, is a writer who has seen his visions become unremarkable reality.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
09-20-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: William Gibson
Chapel Hill transplant Rosecrans Baldwin publishes his debut novelnew
You Lost Me There has received ample advance praise, "so now I'm in a daily cycle of panic attacks and nervous anticipation," Baldwin says, laughing.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
08-16-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rosecrans Baldwin
Greensboro Writer Riffs on New Phish Biographynew
First assigned to cover the band for Rolling Stone in 1995, Parke Puterbaugh became both fan and occasional band publicist, which granted him the access to observe Phish at their peak and through their drug-addled nadir.
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Rob Mitchum |
01-14-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Michael Chabon Discusses Children and Popular Culturenew
Chabon is the jack-of-all-trades of contemporary literature. His literate, humorous, elegiac books include everything from a Pulitzer Prize winner about comic book creators to an alternate-world mystery in a Jewish free state. Now he's got a new collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son.
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Zack Smith |
10-30-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Duke Historian Unearths a Motherlode of Forgotten Jazz Recordingsnew
Sam Stephenson has been studying W. Eugene Smith for 12 years. His second book, The Jazz Loft, is a massive oral history of Smith's former home in New York City.
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Jesse Jarnow |
03-26-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan on 'Escape from Andersonville'new
Hackman and his friend, underwater archaeologist Lenihan, have recently completed their third historical novel. The book centers around Nathan Parker, a captain in the Union army who escapes the hellish Civil War prison.
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Bronwen Dickey |
06-26-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Many Lives of Actor, Redneck and Congressman Ben Jonesnew
Jones has been a Southern cavalier of sorts all his life, whether being the poor Southern boy marching for racial justice in Chapel Hill or demanding that The Dukes of Hazzard reflect the South as it existed instead of as created by Hollywood writers and producers.
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Grayson Currin |
06-19-2008 |
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Retired Army Col. Ann Wright on War, Peace and Dissentnew
Wright joined the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State in 1987, and left in protest the day before the invasion of Iraq. Since then, Wright has been a leading antiwar activist and has now co-authored Dissent: Voices of Conscience.
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Bob Geary |
05-15-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sarah Dessen, Young Adult Before It was Coolnew
"I was worried about the stigma of it, which was stupid," Dessen says.
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Zack Smith |
05-01-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
