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    Sandlin Gaither shares ‘Crazy Things People Say in a Bar’

    Posted on January 29, 2020January 23, 2020 by Bill Kopp

    Gaither presents a spoken-word-plus jazz performance at The Crow & Quill on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

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    Cynn Chadwick’s new book explores the secret choices of women

    Posted on January 21, 2020January 16, 2020 by Kim Ruehl

    “[There are] so many things that women couldn’t or can’t do on the up-and-up, so things have to be done below the surface,” the author explains. “I wanted to tell a story where women win.”

    2.5 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Local poet Andrew K. Clark launches his debut collection

    Posted on January 8, 2020January 2, 2020 by Alli Marshall

    The event at Malaprop’s on Jan. 12 also includes readings from Eric Nelson, Meagan Smith Lucas and Benjamin Cutlers.

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    Smart bets: Sandra E. Johnson

    Posted on January 3, 2020December 15, 2019 by Alli Marshall

    The S.C.-based author presents the 366-day ‘Mind-Body Peace Journal’ at Malaprop’s on Monday, Jan. 6.

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    Miriam McNamara returns to Asheville to launch her new YA novel

    Posted on July 31, 2019July 29, 2019 by Kim Winter Mako

    Born in Ireland and raised in Virginia, the author first came to the Asheville area (which she called home for 17 years) as an undergraduate at Warren Wilson College.

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    Author discusses the meeting of Native American and Southern literature

    Posted on January 23, 2019January 17, 2019 by Alli Marshall

    “I came back to the Southeast and suddenly my eyes were open to the native people around me, because I’d lived on a reservation and lived out west where there were so many different nations around us,” Kirstin Squint says.

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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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    In David Joy’s new novel, ‘landed gentry’ are two separate concepts

    Posted on August 23, 2018August 17, 2018 by Paul Clark

    “We’re losing our mountains to unrestricted land development, tourism and gentrification,” says author David Joy, a sentiment echoed in his latest novel, ‘The Line That Held Us.’

    4.5 K views4ArtsLiterature

    N.C.-based speculativ­e fiction author Krystal A. Smith releases short story collection

    Posted on June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 by Alli Marshall

    “Some days I’m like, ‘Nope, not gonna do that. People are gonna think that’s crazy,’” Smith says. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘Just get it down on the page. Let’s see what happens.’”

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    Swannanoa songwriter­, poet, artist and dramatist Billy Edd Wheeler celebrates a new memoir

    Posted on March 29, 2018March 23, 2018 by Bill Kopp

    Today, at age 85, Wheeler shows little sign of slowing down. Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout is a highly enjoyable chronicle, following a young boy in Boone County, W.V. through a fascinating lifetime, rubbing elbows with Elvis, Chet Atkins and countless other musical peers.

    4.4 K views+ArtsLiteratureMusic

    Local author Jennifer McGaha publishes an Appalachia­n memoir

    Posted on January 18, 2018January 11, 2018 by Alli Marshall

    The memoir took shape while the author was pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, but McGaha has been penning and publishing shorter pieces about her grandparents — who lived in Canton — for years.

    5.5 K views+ArtsLiterature

    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.

    3.1 K views+ArtsLiterature

    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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    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.

    5.9 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Asheville native Gail Godwin explores loss, change and supernatur­al visitation in a new novel

    Posted on June 8, 2017June 2, 2017 by Alli Marshall

    Gail Godwin returns to Malaprop’s to discuss ‘Grief Cottage,’ in conversation with journalist and historian Rob Neufeld, on Wednesday, June 14.

    2.7 K views+ArtsLiterature

    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.

    3.0 K views+ArtsLiterature

    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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    Ron Rash writes a novel inspired by a real-life cold case

    Posted on September 15, 2016September 8, 2016 by Alli Marshall

    Rash will read from and discuss his new novel at UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

    1 like4.0 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Carolina Mountains Literary Festival takes over Burnsville

    Posted on September 6, 2016September 5, 2016 by Alli Marshall

    There’s more than one way to put on a literary festival. Held around the world, they range in size and focus, some bringing in big-name authors while others draw regional writers. Some incorporate conferences or workshops, others offers booths where authors and publishers can sell their wares. The important thing is to a find a […]

    3.7 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Jaye Robin Brown launches an LGBTQ novel for young adults on Aug. 30

    Posted on August 26, 2016August 17, 2016 by Doug Gibson

    The result was a fish-out-of-water story in which Joanne Gordon, the daughter of a successful radio minister, moves from gay-friendly Atlanta to a small-town Rome, Ga., with her father and new stepmother.

    4.2 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Christine Hale shares a memoir about unanswerab­le questions

    Posted on June 29, 2016June 30, 2016 by Alli Marshall

    A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice finds a balance between fact and the malleability of memory by wending, dreamlike, between worlds and timeframes. Author Christine Hale presents the at Malaprop’s on Thursday, June 30.

    4.7 K views+ArtsLiterature
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