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Dorothy Allison, a major literary voice from the South, talks about her workin an audience participation program, 7:30 p.m., November 19, in the UCTheatre at Western Carolina University. Allison's novel, Bastard out ofCarolina is the focus of the show, which will be simulcast with interaction onhttp://www.Citizen-Times.com. The event is free and open to the public.The program, called a WNC Read-for-All, begins with atwenty-minute author feature and continueswith forty minutes of discussion, emceed by Rob Neufeld. (Several WCU studentshave read Allison's book in preparation for the event). See the website, "TheRead on WNC"<http://thereadonwnc.ning.com/> for more details and a Reader'sGuide. Representatives from REACH and The Jackson County Community Table willattend the event, and books will be available for signing courtesy of CityLights Books. The event is funded by the Parris Distinguished Professorship inAppalachian Cultural Studies.The first member of her family to graduate from high school, Allison attendedFlorida Presbyterian college on a National Merit Scholarship and studiedanthropology at the New School for Social Research.Bastard out of Carolina contains many remarkable features: the story of a girlwho forges a positive identity in the teeth of her stepfather's abuse; thedepiction of a poor, Southern extended family; and great storytelling. Allisonreceived mainstream recognition with this novel, a finalist for the 1992National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize and became a bestseller and award-winning movie. It has been translated into more than a dozenlanguages.The expanded edition of Allison's short-story collection Trash (2002) included the prize winning short story, "Compassion," selected for both Best American Short Stories 2003 and Best New Stories from the South 2003. Allison'schapbook of poetry, The Women Who Hate Me, was published with Long Haul Pressin 1983. A novel, She Who, is forthcoming.Dorothy Allison was Emory University Center for Humanistic Inquiry'sDistinguished Visiting Professor, Spring, 2008. In 2006, she was writer inresidence at Columbia College in Chicago. This fall, Allison is the McGeeProfessor and writer in residence at Davidson College in North Carolina.Contact Mary Adams<mailto:madams@wcu.edu> at x3270 or Rob Neufeld at theCitizen-Times for more information. | 20
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North Georgia resident Joseph Gatins will be at City Lights on Friday, November 20th at 7:00 p.m. to introduce readers to his family memoir, entitled We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989. The book is a well-told family saga centered both in Atlanta and in Paris. Through this remarkable family tree, readers get a tour through late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century history, both in the rising New South city of Atlanta and the French capital, ravaged by both World Wars. Specifically, the book follows the adventures of more than five generations of families that made their mark on both Atlanta and Paris. The narrative especially highlights one grandmother's brave work with the French Resistance in World War II and her untiring efforts to successfully help her only son escape from Nazi prisoner of war camps. Says John C. Inscoe, Editor, The New Georgia Encyclopedia. “Joseph Gatins boasts a remarkable family tree, and chronicles their dramatic ups and downs with great verve and insight in this very aptly titled book. It’s a narrative full of memorable characters – from the Irish brothers who first came to Atlanta in 1849, to a great-grandfather whose gambling operations in New York City provided the wealth with which he built and operated the Georgian Terrace Hotel, to his one-armed grandfather and the French heiress who married him, to his father’s harrowing experience in and ultimate escape from German POW camps during the Second World War, and his romance in the midst of it all with Gatins’ mother, daughter of Colombian ex-patriates in Paris. Through their lives and those of other ancestors, equally colorful, Gatins makes this as much a rich social history of Atlanta – and early twentieth century Paris – as it is a compelling family saga.” | 21
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Brian Lee Knopp spent more than a decade as a privateinvestigator here in western North Carolina, working for private clients as well as attorneys. In his new book, Mayhem inMayberry: Misadventures of a P.I. in Southern Appalachia, he tells what the profession is really like on a day-to-day basis. Knopp will be at City Lights on Saturday, November 21sta t 7:00 p.m. to read from the book and take questions from the audience. Don’tmiss this opportunity to meet a real P.I.! |
