The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is ...
Fred Hobson, Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions... | NC Bookwatch
In this episode, Hobson shares his story of a boyhood that never ends, relived each year during basketball season in the frantic, tortured life of a f...
Joe and Terry Graedon, Best Choices from the People’s Pharmacy | NC Bookwatch
In this episode, Joe and Teresa Graedon, the best-selling authors of The Peoples Pharmacy, fill in the void with all the information readers need to b...
Mike Lassiter, Our Vanishing Americana | NC Bookwatch
In this episode, Statesville lawyer Mike Lassiter shares the many images he captured on his travels along North Carolina's rural highways and byways, ...
Zelda Lockhart, Cold Running Creek | NC Bookwatch
In this episode, the Hillsborough native shares her enlightening and revealing story set amid a chorus of swamps, voodoo, floods, and the inevitable c...
Georgann Eubanks, Literary Trails of the NC Mountains | NC Bookwatch
An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist...
David Guy, Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence | NC Bookwatch
An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist...
Kathryn Stripling Byer, Coming to Rest | NC Bookwatch
Byer’s new poetry collection, entitled Coming to Rest, is considered a re-articulation and a culmination of her distinguished career, which includes h...
Melton McLaurin, The Marines of Montford Point | NC Bookwatch
Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. In this episode,...
Tim Madigan, I'm Prod of you | NC Bookwatch
This memoir recounts the deep eight-year friendship of young Texas newspaper journalist Tim Madigan and famed children's television host Fred Rogers (...