When Kaye Gibbons showed her professor of Southern literature at UNC the first seven pages of her debut novel in 1986, he immediately pulled out his checkbook and paid her $1,500 for the rights. It was more money than she had ever seen in her life. That now-famous novel, based on her childhood experiences, introduces […]
Virginia Daniel
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The view from Boylan Heights
I have never known someone to move so many times, yet move so short a distance. In the past four years my best friend, Lauren, has lived in three different houses along the same two-mile stretch of Raleigh’s Boylan Avenue. She started near “GloSo,” the trendy Glenwood South district, and is now nestled snugly in […]