Lawrence Naumoff: A Southern Tragedy in Crimson and Yellow | NC Bookwatch
In 1991, a chicken plant burned in Hamlet, N.C. The fire exits had been locked to keep the employees from stealing—allowing workers to be trapped in t...
North Carolina Bookwatch 2005-2006 | UNC-TV
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UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch is the state’s premier literary series, bringing the Tar Heel State’s best and brightest Southern writers to the small screen. In every illuminating interview, host D.G. Martin sheds light on authors’ lives, books and the state’s indelible imprint on their works.
Michael Parker: If You Want Me to Stay | NC Bookwatch
In Michael Parker's new novel, If You Want Me to Stay, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mo...
Tommy Hays: The Pleasure Was Mine | NC Bookwatch
"My wife has gone. I can't say that I blame her. ... She had probably had enough of my temper, my dark moods, my foul mouth, my all-around disagreeabl...
Robert F. Irwin: Robert F. Irwin 40 Years | NC Bookwatch
Artist Robert F. Irwin asserts that each painting, each project in life, is a portal to the next. His new collection of art Robert F. Irwin 40 Years s...
Henry Petroski: Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering | NC Bookwatch
In the ever-increasing push for longer bridges, taller buildings, bigger stadiums, and grander projects of all kinds, engineers face new challenges th...
Peter Perret: A Well Tempered Mind | NC Bookwatch
A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn documents an acclaimed music and education program developed a decade ago by Winst...
Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia's School of Beauty | NC Bookwatch
Miss Julia's wildly popular escapades have kept readers coming back again and again. In Miss Julia Meets Her Match , she finally succumbed to Sam's ch...
Randall Kenan: Walking On Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century | NC Bookwatch
In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, author Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: What does...
Shannon Ravenel: New Stories From the South
Over the past two decades, New Stories from the South has been identified as “one of the most significant and eagerly anticipated annual collections o...