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Don Noble interviews Phil Beidler, author of multiple books, articles, and essays including Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Tom Franklin. His honors include a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence, and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Story for the title story in his collection Poachers: Stories. His most recent novel is Smonk. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Jack Pendarvis, author of two books of short stories, The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure and Your Body Is Changing. His novel is titled Awesome. He is currently the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Michael Knight. His work includes a novel, Diving Rod, two collections of short fiction, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody, and a collection of novellas, The Holiday Season. After discovering his story “Birdland,” Robert Duvall hired Knight to adapt it for the screen. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Frank Deford. Deford has been writing for Sports Illustrated since the early 1960s. His 1981 novel, Everybody's All-American, was named one of Sports Illustrated's Top 25 Sports Books of All Time and was later made into a movie directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Dennis Quaid. See Web site for more information. Part I of Don Noble's interview with Walter Mosley. Mosley has written over 20 books in a variety of categories, including afro-futurist science fiction and non-fiction politics but is perhaps most famous for his Easy Rawlins mystery novels. His crime novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington. See Web site for more information. Part II of Don Noble's interview with Walter Mosley. Mosley has written over 20 books in a variety of categories, including afro-futurist science fiction and non-fiction politics but is perhaps most famous for his Easy Rawlins mystery novels. His crime novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Ace Atkins. Atkins worked as a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, where he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a series of articles about the unsolved murder of a Tampa socialite in 1956. Wicked City, an account of the crime-ridden Phenix City of the 1950's, is his sixth novel. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, Ray in Reverse, and The Watermelon King. His new novel is Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. In 2003 Columbia Pictures released the film version of Big Fish. It was adapted by John August and directed by Tim Burton.
See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Alabama native Hank Klibanoff, managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He received the Pulitzer prize for history in 2007 for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, co-written with Gene Roberts. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Barry Hannah. His first novel, the quirky coming of age story Geronimo Rex (1972), won the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. Since that time, Hannah has publish several novels and short story collections including Nightwatchmen and Yonder Stands Your Orphan, that takes its title from Bob Dylan's song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Rick Bragg. His new book, The Prince of Frogtown, is the final in his family memoir trilogy. Beloved for his unique literary style and storytelling genius, the Alabama native is also a delightful interview. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Sena Jeter Naslund Don Noble interviews Sena Jeter Naslund. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Winston Groome. See Web site for more information. Don noble interviews Lee Smith. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Sonny Brewer. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews William Gay. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Steven Rudd. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Brad Vice. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Charles Shields. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews 2008 Harper Lee Award winner Rebecca Gilman. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rebecca Gilman's film adaptation of her play Spinning Into Butter is currently in production with Sarah Jessica Parker. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Gay Talese. Talese is the best-selling author of the recently-acclaimed book, A Writer's Life, a memoir about the inner workings of a writer's life and the interplay between experience and writing. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Melinda Rainey Thomson Don Noble interviews Melinda Rainey Thomson. Thompson’s humor gives SWAG: Southern Women Aging Gracefully and The SWAG Life their charm. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Robert Olen Butler & Elizabeth Dewberry Part 1 of Don Noble's interview with Robert Olen Butler & Elizabeth Dewberry. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth Dewberry are a husband and wife team discussing their writing, marriage and latest works Severance and His Lovely Wife. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Robert Olen Butler & Elizabeth Dewberry Part 2 Part 2 of Don Noble's interview with Robert Olen Butler & Elizabeth Dewberry. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth Dewberry are a husband and wife team discussing their writing, marriage and latest works Severance and His Lovely Wife. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Joe Formichella. Formichella is the author of such literary works as The Wreck of the Twilight Limited, Here’s to You Jackie Robinson, and most recently, Murder Creek: The Unfortunate Accident of Annie Jean Barnes. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Natasha Tretheway Don Noble interviews Natasha Tretheway. Trethewey has published three collections of poetry: Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Charles Shields, author of several nonfiction books about people and events throughout history, including the New York Times bestseller Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Alexander McCall Smith Don Noble interviews Alexander McCall Smith. Smith has written more than 60 books, but he is best known for his internationally acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which rapidly rose to the top of bestseller lists throughout the world. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Richard North Patterson Don Noble interviews Richard North Patterson. Patterson's success translates into over twenty-five million copies in almost every language on earth. He has won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere and the Edgar, signifying the best mystery in America. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Richard Schickel Don Noble interviews Richard Schickel. Schickel is a film critic, documentary filmmaker and movie historian, who has written more than 30 books. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Tracy Chevalier. Chevalier's novel The Girl with the Pearl Earring was made into the movie that starred Scarlett Johannson. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with J. Wes Yoder & Watt Key Don Noble interviews J. Wes Yoder & Watt Key. J. Wes Yoder, known for working with Rick Bragg at The New York Times, wrote Carry My Bones. Watt Key is the author of Alabama Moon, currently in film production. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Nathaniel Philbrick Don Noble interviews Nathaniel Philbrick. Philbrick is a MAYFLOWER National Book Award recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Jennifer Paddock Don Noble interviews Jennifer Paddock, author of two novels, A Secret Word and Point Clear. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Carolyn Jourdan, a former US Senate lawyer and author of Heart in the Right Place, a memoir about leaving Washington D.C. to return home to Tennessee and work as a receptionist at her father’s small medical office. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Inman Majors, a professor at James Madison University specializing in fiction writing, and the author of Swimming in Sky, Wonderdog, and most recently, The Millionaires, a book that combines politics, ambition, and wealth, set in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Tennessee. See Web site for more information. Bookmark: Exploring Authors, Books, & the Readers that Love Them More than fifty writers - including literary stars such as James Dickey, John Barth, Peter Taylor, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Ann Grau and Anne Rivers Siddons - have discussed their work on Bookmark during the past several years on Alabama Public Television. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Thom Gossom, writer, actor and author of Walk On, a book set in the early 1970s about his journey to become the first black athlete to graduate from Auburn University. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, he has also starred in many feature films and TV series. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Joe Galloway, a newspaper correspondent, columnist, and author of We Were Soldiers Once…And Young, which became a major motion picture starring Mel Gibson in 2002. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Ravi Howard, author of Like Trees, Walking. Based on a true story, Like Trees, Walking is a fictional telling of the aftermath of one of the last recorded lynchings in the U.S. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Roger Reid, author of the young adult novel Longleaf, a story about a 14-year-old boy who gets lost in the real life Conecuh National Forest. Reid is also the producer of the award-winning Discovering Alabama series on Alabama Public Television. See Web site for more information. The 8th annual Montevallo Literary Festival will take place at the scenic and historic University of Montevallo, Alabama's only public liberal arts university. See Web site for frequent updates. Limestone Dust Poetry Festival The Limestone Dust Poetry Festival is a gathering of poets from all over the state and beyond. Its purpose is to celebrate the art of poetry. We come together to showcase our art, to hear other poets, and to hone our craft. This year featured poets are Maggie Vaughn, Poet Laureate of Tennessee, and Barry Marks of Birmingham. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Tito Perdue, an author who has published five novels, four of which are about his reoccurring character Lee Pefley, including his most recent work Fields of Asphodel. See Web site for more information. The Alabama Center for Literary Arts presents Literature on Location: The Muse of Place, the 2010 Alabama Writers Symposium. Readers, writers, scholars, and the recipient of the 2010 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama's Distinguished Scholar of the Year. Check Web site for frequent updates. Don Noble interviews Howard Jones, professor of history at The University of Alabama and author of Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. Bookmark is also streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Roy Hoffman, author of Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile. A native of Mobile, Alabama, he worked in New York City for twenty years as a journalist, speechwriter, editor, and teacher, before returning South as writer-in-residence at the Mobile Register, where he is now on staff. Bookmark is also streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Will Campbell, a Baptist minister, civil rights activist, author, and lecturer. His autobiographical work Brother to a Dragonfly earned the Lillian Smith Prize, the Christopher Award, and a National Book Award nomination. His most recent works are Robert G. Clark’s Journey to the House and Up to Our Steeples in Politics. See Web site for more information. Bookmark with Michelle Richmond Don Noble interviews Michelle Richmond, the 2009 Hillsdale Award for Fiction recipient and the author of four books of fiction, including The Year of Fog, which has been a top pick for many literary journals and magazines and is currently in development with Newmarket Films. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet and the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work. See Web site for more information. P.T. Paul will sign her new book To Live & Write in Dixie. See Web site for more information JOSHILYN JACKSON will sign copies of her latest novel Backseat Saints. See Web site for more information. Joshilyn Jackson will perform a benefit for First Light Shelter. A signed first edition of Joshilyn's new book Backseat Saints comes with every ticket. ($35 - including all taxes) See Web site for more information. Kiwanis Club Book Event with Julie Williams Julie Wiliams will discuss and sign copies of her book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. E-mail for more information. Panel Discussion: Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation Jazz at Lincoln Center will be hosting a symposium on Albert Murray, the subject of the upcoming book Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation. This is the first book of scholarly and personal essays on the work of a writer who was instrumental in the founding of Jazz at Lincoln Center. See Web site for more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Mary Spanos Mary Spanos will discuss Southeastern Indian Textiles from the Prehistoric Period to Removal. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Warren St. John, a reporter for The New York Times and the author of the national bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer and his most recent work Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town. See Web site for more information. NY Times best selling author Karin Slaughter will speak about & sign copies of her latest book, Broken. See Web site for more details. Angela James discusses the ins and outs of e-publishing. Free for Southern Magic members, $5 for RWA members, and $10 for the public. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews Inman Majors, a professor at James Madison University specializing in fiction writing and is the author of Swimming in Sky, Wonderdog, and most recently, The Millionaires, a book that combines politics, ambition and wealth set in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Tennessee. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews author Neil White. Bookmark is also broadcast on APT IQ and streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. To Kill a Mockingbird's 50th Anniversary Celebration Harper Lee’s hometown will celebrate her Pulitzer Prize winning American classic July 8-11. Some events require reservations. Phone for more information. Brad Thor will speak & sign for his latest novel Foreign Influence. See Web site for more information. T.K. Thorne will talk about her novel NOAH'S WIFE, winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2009 Book of the Year for Historical Fiction. See Web site for more information P.T. Paul will sign copies of To Live & Write in Dixie during the LoDa Artwalk in downtown Mobile. Louis Skidmore will sign copies of his children’s book The Purple Fuzzballs. See Web site for more information. Russell Blount will sign copies of his book The Battles of New Hope Church. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews author Thomas Lakeman. Bookmark is also broadcast on APT IQ and streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. Birmingham Arts Journal reading Reading/Reception for the latest issue of the Birmingham Arts Journal Inc. Free and open to the Public. See Web site for more information. Gerald Darring will speak and sign copies of his book Christians, Jews and the Holocaust. See Web site for more information. The Real Blind Side Family book signing Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy are the real family behind the blockbuster movie the Blind Side. They will sign copies of their newest book, In A Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving. Line numbers will be distributed beginning Monday, July 12, 5PM. Please contact Christine for more information at 205-870-0213. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Ruth Beaumont Cook Ruth Beaumont Cook will discuss The Magic of Marble: Sylacauga’s Landmark. See Web site for more information. ALABAMA WRITERS' CONCLAVE ANNUAL CONVENTION Founded in 1923, the Conclave provides an annual three-day workshop with intensive and friendly sessions about improving writing skills. See Web site for more information. Nina Fritz will sign copies of her art book Nina Fritz Paintings. See Web site for more information. Montgomery resident and author of the Editor's Choice awarding winning novel The Silver Spoon will sign copies of her novel. Please visit the Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews author E.O. Wilson. Bookmark is also broadcast on APT IQ and streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. Alabama Department of Education MEGA Conference This professional development conference for Alabama educators will take place at the Mobile Convention Center and the Renaissance Riverview Hotel. See Web site for more information. Writing Our Stories team members Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Marlin Barton, Lisa Williams-Gallagher, and Jeanie Thompson present the award-winning curriculum to teachers at the 2010 MEGA Conference in the Tuesday morning session, at the invitation of SDE Deputy Director Dr. Tommy Bice. See Web site for more information. Carole King & Karren Pell book signing Carole King & Karren Pell premier their new book Montgomery's Historic Neighborhoods. See Web site for more information. Watt Key will sign copies of his latest book Dirt Road Home. See Web site for more information. K. T. Archer will discuss and sign copies of her Editor's Choice award-winning novel, The Silver Spoon. Please visit the author's Web site for more information. Margaret Cunningham book signing Margaret Cunningham will sign copies of her latest novel One True Place. See Web site for more information. Don Noble interviews author Tom Rickman. Bookmark is also broadcast on APT IQ and streamed on iTunes U. See Web site for more information. Ramey Channell will discuss and sign copies of her new book Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge. Writers of Calhoun County meeting Publisher Randy Young will speak on starting his own company and how he helps writers. See Web site for more information &/or e-mail for directions. David Wilson Atwood book signing David Wilson Atwood will sign his debut novel Where the Mockingbird Sang: A Novel of the Civil War. See Web site for more information. Historian Mary Ann Neeley will discuss and sign copies of her new book The Writings of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian. See Web site for more information Julie Williams will discuss and sign copies of her new book Wings of Opportunit: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Karen I. Henricks Karen I. Henricks will discuss The Impact of New Deal Money on Small Town Alabama. See Web site for more information. Lunch and Learn: Richard Bailey Richard Bailey will discuss and sign copies of his newly revised and updated book Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalaways: Black Officeholders during the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878. See Web site for more information. Julie Williams will discuss and sign copies of her book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information. Lunch at the Library: Clyde Bolton Popular author and sports writer Clyde Bolton will discuss and sign copies of his new memoir Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood. See Web site for more information. Brown Bag Lunch Event with Mary Ann Neeley Historian Mary Ann Neeley will discuss and sign copies of her new book The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian. See Web site for more information Rheta Grimsley Johnson book event Award-winning journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson will discuss her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for time and more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Ed Williams Ed Williams will discuss All the News That’s Fit to Print: Community Journalism in Alabama. See Web site for more information. YA Georgia Author of the Year 2009 Ted Dunagan will sign copies of his new book Secret of the Satilfa, the sequel to A Yellow Watermelon. See Web site for more information Escape to Create Fall Writers Conference Explore your literary interests in this four-day conference of small group sessions, readings, and panel discussions with leading authors, poets, and professionals in the publishing field. The conference will bring together an eclectic and talented group of authors to lead and inspire students of writing. Make your reservation before September 1 for $150. See Web site for more information. Historian Julie Williams will discuss and sign copies of her book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information Rheta Grimsley Johnson book event Rheta Grimsley Johnson will discuss and sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information. Lovers of poetry gather to hear a representative group of 15 citizens recite their favorite poems from childhood. Sponsored by the Birmingham Arts Journal and the Alabama School of Fine Arts. Hosted by TV personality Mike Royer. See Web site for more information. The Auburn Writers Conference 2010 Avid readers and writers will gather for The Child on the Page, the first Auburn Writers Conference. The conference will feature small-group workshops and a day of panel discussions and readings with award-winning writers, agent Holly Root, and keynote speaker Julianna Baggott. See Web site for more information. Auburn Writers Conference: The Child on the Page Focusing on writing for and about children—but valuable for writers in any genre—The Child on the Page will feature small-group workshops, panel discussions, and readings with keynote speaker Julianna Baggott, agent Holly Root, and award-winning authors Peter Campion, Elizabeth Dulemba, Rachel Hawkins, Peter Huggins, Irene Latham, Emma Bolden, and Judy Troy. CEUs will be offered for teachers. See Web site for more information. YA Georgia Author of the Year 2009 Ted Dunagan will sign copies his new book Secret of the Satilfa and A Yellow Watermelon. See Web site for more information. Historian Mary Ann Neeley will discuss and sign copies of her new book The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian. See Web site for more information. YA Georgia Author of the Year 2009 Ted Dunagan will speak about and sign copies of his books A Yellow Watermelon and Secret of the Satilfa. See Web site for more information. Writing & Illustrating for Kids 10 Orchestrating Voice, a one-day intensive workshop, will be led by acclaimed teacher/author Darcy Pattison on Friday. This workshop is followed by our 19th annual fall conference on Saturday, featuring 28 workshops to choose from. Faculty includes: Darcy Pattison (keynote speaker), Jaime Weiss Chilton (agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency), Stacey Barney (Editor, Putnam Books for Young Readers), Kate Sullivan (Assistant Editor, Little, Brown Young Readers), and a host of others. Formal and informal critiques will be available. Pre-registration is required. See Web site for more information. Kathryn Tucker Windham book event Popular storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham will discuss and sign copies of her book Ernest's Gift. See Web site for more information. Journalism professor Julie Williams will talk about and sign copies of her new book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Vernon James Knight Vernon James Knight will discuss The Search for Mabila. See Web site for more information. Rheta Grimsley Johnson book event Award-winning nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson will discuss and sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information. Julie Williams will discuss and sign copies of her book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Howard Robinson Howard Robinson will discuss Black Businesses in Montgomery. See Web site for more information. First Wednesday Forum: Julie Williams Julie Williams will discuss and sign copies of her book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information. Sign-up at 8, Slam at 9. See Web site for more information. ArchiTreats: Food for Thought: Greg Waselkov Greg Waselkov will discuss The Coming of the Creek War. See Web site for more information. Historian Wade Hall will discuss and sign copies of his new book An Interview with Abraham Lincoln. See Web site for more information. Rheta Grimsley Johnson book event Award-winning columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson will discuss and sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information. Cosmos Club Book Event: Mary Ann Neeley Historian Mary Ann Neeley will discuss and sign copies of her new book The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian. See Web site for more information. The sixth annual Alabama Book Festival will be held in historic downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town on April 16, 2011, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The free public event is the state’s premier book festival—with more than 4,000 people from around the state converging in the capital to meet with and hear from their favorite authors and scholars. The sixth annual Alabama Book Festival will be held in historic downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town on April 16, 2011, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The free public event is the state’s premier book festival—with more than 4,000 people from around the state converging in the capital to meet with and hear from their favorite authors and scholars. See Web site for frequent updates & photos from the 2010 festival. |
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