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In a New Memoir, the Travels of Frances Mayes Reach from the Triangle to Tuscany, and Back Again
“I mostly see women with their journals and their novels and their sketch pads, and I think, ‘Oh, you’re so lucky. You’re going to discover something.’” Read more
Sep. 21, 2022
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Raleigh Poet Jayme Ringleb’s Elegant Debut Collection Explores Queer Southern Love and Loss
"This might be a bit spoiler-y, but the book doesn’t end with narrative resolution. It’s more about the speaker being able to see himself as possible and the possibility of his love as a thing that exists." Read more
Sep. 14, 2022
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Fall Arts Preview: Ten North Carolina Titles to Look Out For
Must-read books written by local authors, from moving historical romances to thrilling sci-fi mysteries. Read more
Sep. 14, 2022
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An Insightful New Book Offers a Counterweight to Dominant Ideas about What It Means to Eat While Being Black in America
The practices of shaming and policing Black bodies with and around food, notes author Psyche A. Williams-Forson, “arise from a broader history of trying to control our very states of being." Read more
Aug. 10, 2022
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The Poetry Fox Speaks: Chris Vitiello on Costumes, Street Poetry, and Shared Humanity
Since before he knew what a typewriter was, Chris Vitiello had a way with words. Read more
Aug. 03, 2022
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Beloved Chapel Hill Author Sarah Dessen Takes a Look Back
“If I wasn’t writing, it was like having that feeling like I left the curling iron on.” Read more
Jul. 13, 2022
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A New UNC Press Biography Paints a Portrait of the Memories, Mysteries, and Myths That Drove Charlotte Artist Romare Bearden
Bearden’s work is evidence that one can go home, if only in memory. Read more
Jul. 06, 2022
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North Carolina Student Competes in the Poetry Out Loud National Championship
Gabriella Burwell, a junior at Knightdale High School, opted to recite "Black Matters" by Keith S. Wilson and "The Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall, as well as a poem by Booker T. Washington. Read more
Jun. 06, 2022
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‘Planes,’ a Confident Debut Novel, Centers on the CIA’s Dark, Real-Life Use of a Rural North Carolina Airstrip for Renditions
"Everything has its dailiness, including things that we think of as rupturing daily life." Read more
May 18, 2022
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Raleigh Author Makes a Case for Rewriting the Cultural Scripts Around Motherhood
"We are getting the message that if you mother, it should be the thing that colors everything else in your life. And if you don’t mother, you’re not living in Technicolor." Read more
May 11, 2022
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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." Read more
May 11, 2022
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'A Series of Fortunate Events' Festival Explores the Many Definitions of Movement
The Arts Access series runs through Tuesday, August 30. Read more
May 11, 2022
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Treva B. Lindsey Writes With and For Black Women and Girls
"I believe so strongly in Black women’s and girls’ ability to create new worlds because we have done it before." Read more
Apr. 20, 2022
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Two Triangle Writers Named Recipients of Prestigious Whiting Award
Ina Cariño and Alexis Pauline Gumbs are two of ten writers to receive the legendary $50,000 award. Read more
Apr. 07, 2022
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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. Read more
Apr. 06, 2022
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Megan Mayhew Bergman's Women For Every Season
The women in 'How Strange A Season'—strong-willed activists, artists, and athletes—have footholds in the past and the future. They're haunted by both. Read more
Apr. 05, 2022
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The Jewish Authors Book Festival Returns to the Triangle
The virtual festival runs through Sunday, March 27 with authors’ talks most afternoons and evenings this week. Read more
Mar. 21, 2022
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Duke University Press Workers Union Wins Union Election
The union says that it is ready to move forward, writing, "the time for legal maneuvering is over. The union is ready to begin bargaining now." Read more
Feb. 11, 2022
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Heather Havrilesky's 'Foreverland' is an Honest, Hilarious Portrait of Wedded Bliss
“There’s an idea that relationships should be easy for us or they should end, and I think that’s bad for us." Read more
Feb. 08, 2022
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Crook’s Corner May Be Closed, but Its Endearing Prize for the Best Debut Novel Set in the American South Lives On
Last June, the restaurant quietly closed its doors, another casualty of the pandemic, taking with it a certain vision of an older, open Chapel Hill and that romantic prize promise of 365 glasses of wine. Nevertheless, its award, for now, lives on. Read more
Jan. 19, 2022
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