The Indigena Series Centers the Margins at VAE
After a warm and welcoming first outing in December, the new reading series featuring people of color, queer people, and disabled people returns this Sunday.
The Unconditional Empathy of Southern Writer Larry Brown Shines in “Tiny Love”
Algonquin’s new collection of Larry Brown’s stories is a thorough testament to the late, great fiction writer’s loving eye for rural minutiae.
Each Paragraph Is a Peculiar, Funny, Heartbreaking World in Amy Hempel’s Masterful Short Stories
Since her first collection of darkly humorous fiction in 1985, Hempel has been changing the short-story form—often, by abbreviating it.
Women Have Toppled the Patriarchy in The Bond, Robin Kirk’s Cautionary Tale of Genocide
Kirk, an accomplished nonfiction writer and human-rights advocate, launches her debut YA novel at The Regulator on Tuesday, Dec. 11.
This Season, Duke’s Little Corner Reading Series Focuses on Women Who Break Through Borders
Themed “Excess Women,” the series begins with Dorothea Lasky at Duke Coffeehouse on Saturday, Dec. 1.
As Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green Wants to Amplify North Carolina’s Muted Voices
As Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green Wants to Amplify North Carolina’s Muted Voices
In Raleigh, a New Speculative Fiction Star Bursts Into Being: Get to Know Empire of Silence Author Christopher Ruocchio
Christopher Ruocchio Friday, Jul. 6, 7 p.m., free Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh You may not have heard of the young Raleigh author Christopher Ruocchio yet, but science fiction and fantasy readers around the world now know his name. Just last year, Ruocchio finished an MFA at N.C. State under the tutelage of John Kessel, whose…
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A Party Bro and His Lonely Mom Switch Roles in Tom Perrotta’s Latest Suburban Satire, Mrs. Fletcher
Tuesday, May 1 Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill 7 p.m., free, www.flyleafbooks.com Even if you haven’t read novelist Tom Perrotta, you likely know his brand of spiky satire in Northeastern suburbs from its high-profile jaunts into other forms, such as Alexander Payne’s film adaptation of Election or HBO’s series based on The Leftovers. Perrotta is up…
Novelist Meg Wolitzer Is Better Than Franzen and Eugenides. If the Literature Industry Weren’t Sexist, Everyone Would Know That.
The literary establishment probably has been wary of Wolitzer not only because of sexism, but also because of its corollary, fear.
The Carolina African American Writers’ Collective Reads From Groundbreaking Haiku Anthology at Quail Ridge
Sunday, April 8 Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh 2 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com Last year, the Carolina African American Writers’ collective published One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku on Unicorn Press. Hailed as a “literal and metaphorical groundbreaker” by Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures coeditor Lauri Ramey, the book, edited by collective founder Lenard D.…
Jonathan Miles Cloaks Fiction in Journalism in Acclaimed New Book Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel*
Thursday, March 29 Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh 7 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com Miracles happen, but part of what makes them miracles is that we don’t know how or why. Our concepts of faith, religion, or a just and balanced universe may help us deal with uncertainty, but they also say something about how we see ourselves.…
In Anna Quindlen’s Alternate Side, a Fight Over a Parking Space Rends a Tony Manhattan Community
Friday, March 23 Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh 7 p.m., signing line with book purchase www.quailridgebooks.com In the nineties, Anna Quindlen won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her column in The New York Times, so it’s no surprise that, in her many novels, she’s no fantasist, but rather taps into current events and the temper…
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