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Author:   Doug Gibson

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Author Daniel Wallace will keynote Literacy Council fundraiser

Posted on October 17, 2019October 10, 2019 by Doug Gibson

A longtime resident of Chapel Hill, Daniel Wallace (who penned Big Fish: A Novel of Epic Proportions, which director Tim Burton made into a 2003 movie of the same name) was once the assistant director for the literacy council in that city. “I was in my 20s. It was a fluke, really,” says the author, […]

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The Flatiron Writers host a speculativ­e fiction event

Posted on September 11, 2019September 16, 2019 by Doug Gibson

The need for representation led to the decision to put together an anthology of speculative fiction by black women. The book, ‘Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing’ has been hailed as an “outstanding anthology” by Publisher’s Weekly.

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Jaki Shelton Green and Charles Frazier headline Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

Posted on August 28, 2019August 30, 2019 by Doug Gibson

In all, the festival offers more than 40 separate events, with topics ranging from world building in science fiction to the ways music can inform poetry. And, while not all of the sessions involve travel, migration and immigration, many do.

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Author Jennie Liu writes of teens in contempora­ry China

Posted on November 1, 2018October 25, 2018 by Doug Gibson

She’ll launch the book at Malaprop’s on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

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Amy Reed’s latest YA project aims to build community and inspire resistance

Posted on October 4, 2018September 27, 2018 by Doug Gibson

The launch of the anthology ‘Our Stories, Our Voices,’ featuring Amy Reed, Alexandra Duncan, Jaye Robin Brown, Amber Smith and Tracy Deonn Walker, takes place at Malaprop’s Oct. 6.

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Asheville Wordfest explores the relationsh­ips between science, art and environmen­t

Posted on April 10, 2018April 13, 2018 by Doug Gibson

Events take place Thursday-Sunday, April 12-15, at UNC Asheville, Malaprop’s and the Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville campus.

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New book explores how Pink Floyd recovered from the loss of Syd Barrett

Posted on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 by Doug Gibson

After coming so close to the brink of failure, how did Pink Floyd recover? That’s a question Kopp tries to answer in his book Reinventing Pink Floyd, which he’ll launch Thursday, March 8, at Malaprop’s.

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Amy Reed’s latest novel battles rape culture with self-discovery

Posted on October 5, 2017September 29, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Amy Reed hopes readers will be inspired by the Nowhere Girls’ self-discovery, by their creation of community, and by the way the two processes work together. “The girls of the school realize that they aren’t enemies, and once they start looking at things that way, things start changing for them internally,” she says.

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In ‘The Last Castle,’ Denise Kiernan tells the story of the Biltmore Estate

Posted on September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 by Doug Gibson

As it happens, the author has some things in common with the historic figures whose story she tells. Like Vanderbilt, Kiernan was born in New York City, and like the scion and his wife, Edith, Kiernan traveled widely (including a stint in Italy reporting on soccer for ESPN) before settling in Asheville.

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Local author Alexandra Duncan launches her next YA sci-fi novel

Posted on July 28, 2017July 27, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Her book event on Tuesday, Aug. 1, will take place at Spellbound Children’s Bookshop in Asheville, where she first discovered one of her callings.

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Festival aims to boost Appalachia­n literature and literacy

Posted on July 27, 2017July 21, 2017 by Doug Gibson

On their honeymoon, New York Times bestselling novelist Amy Greene and her now-husband, Trent Thompson, rambled off the Appalachian Trail and onto the grounds of the Laughing Heart Lodge in Hot Springs. That serendipitous discovery led to the Laughing Heart Literary Project, which will hold its inaugural festival Tuesday, Aug. 1-Friday, Aug. 4.

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Asheville writer Kyle James launches his travel memoir

Posted on July 11, 2017July 5, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Kyle James wrote on boats, planes and trains, and on the back seats of the hitchhiked rides (obtained through a mobile app) that they used to keep within their $150-a-day budget. Writing became a means of letting go.

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Evidence of pre-Colonial Spanish soldiers reshapes WNC history

Posted on June 30, 2017July 3, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Discoveries at an archaeological site in Morganton support an astonishing conclusion: Long-lost Fort San Juan, which may have been the earliest permanent European settlement in the interior of North American, may have stood on the site, which was also the location of the large Native American settlement of Joara.

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Comic artist Hope Larson returns to Asheville

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Today’s author event, at Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, will be Hope Larson’s first book launch since moving back from Los Angeles earlier this year.

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Local YA author launches a ‘Star Wars’ novel

Posted on May 2, 2017April 25, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Revis says she doesn’t know how Lucasfilm selected her to write Star Wars: Rebel Rising, a novel depicting the early life of Rogue One protagonist Jyn Erso. But for many familiar with YA science fiction, the local author seems a natural fit.

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Joanne O’Sullivan’s debut YA novel arose from a lifelong love of the Gulf

Posted on April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 by Doug Gibson

O’Sullivan celebrates the launch of the book at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe on Saturday, April 26. The event will include a conversation between O’Sullivan and fellow local author Allan Wolf, and will also feature the music of New Orleans and the Louisiana coast.

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Allan Wolf’s latest YA novel draws on the death of a childhood friend

Posted on March 14, 2017March 9, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Decades after the death of Allan Wolf’s boyhood friend Ed Disney, Wolf and his brother set out along a back road near their hometown of Blacksburg, Va., to find the exact spot where two young assailants shot Disney and left him to die.

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The Last Dragon Charmer series brings sorcery to Asheville

Posted on March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 by Doug Gibson

What makes this particular book launch — held Friday, March 10, at Spellbound Children’s Bookshop — unique is that McKay will be doing it in the city where most of her book’s action takes place.

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Sylva native Natalie Anderson adapts the lives of African refugees into a YA novel

Posted on February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 by Doug Gibson

A break from the field, followed by a return to Africa, set Anderson to work on the story that eventually became City of Saints and Thieves. Working out of Kenya, she thought about writing a novel set in Nairobi that dramatized the experiences that drove refugees there from the Congo.

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Refugees, hurricanes and murders: 2017 in WNC kidlit

Posted on January 27, 2017January 25, 2017 by Doug Gibson

Last year, two Asheville writers — Megan Shepherd and Robert Beatty — found themselves on the New York Times Children’s Chapter Books bestseller lists. This year’s crop of YA and middle-grade books of local interest promises to be just as exciting.

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Asheville kids film festival seeks entries

Posted on January 19, 2017January 18, 2017 by Doug Gibson

The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, a multisite national event showcasing short films based on children’s books, will be accepting films submitted from Asheville until Wednesday, Feb. 8.

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