“I am the filthiest person alive. Even though Johnny Knoxville is pretty close. I share my crown with him.”
Shelbi Polk
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A Conversation With Ibram X. Kendi About “How To Be a (Young) Anti-Racist”
A conversation with Ibram X. Kendi about “How To Be a (Young) Anti-Racist,” co-author Nic Stone’s adaptation of his bestselling manual.
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Bookstore and DIY Readings Breathe New Life into the Triangle’s Literary Community
“It’s not an activity mediated by an algorithm or with any economical motives,” Paradiso co-founder Marta Nuñez says. “I think those spaces are very needed right now. People are very isolated.”
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In a New Memoir, the Travels of Frances Mayes Reach from the Triangle to Tuscany, and Back Again
Frances Mayes’ romantic 1996 memoir, “Under the Tuscan Sun,” about buying and renovating a rickety but venerable Italian villa, kicked off a writing career that has continued with gusto into her eighties.
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Author Monica Byrne Bids Adieu to Durham
The author says goodbye to the city that gave her her start.
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Beloved Chapel Hill Author Sarah Dessen Takes a Look Back
With her daughter away at summer camp, Dessen agreed to speak from her vacation on a North Carolina beach about the Netflix adaptation of her 2009 novel, Along for the Ride, which came out in May.
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Erica Plouffe Lazure’s Intimate Short Story Collection Is Threaded Together by a Shared Setting in the Semifictional Town of Mewborn, NC
“This book is a work of fiction, but in many ways, I feel myself in the book.”
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It May Not Always Be Happy, but David Sedaris’s Latest Memoir Is Still an Awfully Good Time
David Sedaris’s latest essay collection, ‘Happy-Go-Lucky,’ has much more of the Old North State in it.
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John Darnielle’s New Thriller, ‘Devil House,’ Digs into the Uneasy Tensions between Humanity and the Headlines
“Telling any story at all has stakes, you know, whether it’s true or not.”
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Durham Writer Karen Tucker’s Debut Novel Takes a Hard Look at Love, Loss, and Addiction
In ‘Bewilderness,’ double-edged affection defines the relationship (or obsession) between friends Luce and Irene, who both struggle with opioids.