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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 20:28 |
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LEAVING THE COMFORT CAFE
by Dawn DeAnna Wilson
IBSN## 1-60154-220-8
The Wild Rose Press
$10.99 Blythe makes a perfect score on her SAT, earns a full scholarship to Cornell, but
never goes. Instead, she becomes a waitress at the Comfort Café, a "mom and pop"
restaurant in Conyers, North Carolina. Austin has the perfect chance to follow his
college crush to New York City, but a slumping economy causes him to hesitate, and
he instead takes a job as town manager of Conyers -- where he discovers his master's
degree is no match for the well-oiled machinery of "good ol' boy" Southern politics.
Austin visits the Comfort Café to sample its famous raspberry pie, but gets much
more than a dose of dessert - he gets a helping of Blythe, who brings a splash of
color to his gray-flannel world...and makes him determined to discover why she
abandoned her Ivy League ambitions.  New layer... |
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Get Out and Vote!
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
No matter who you [...]
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Hall of Fame Induction This Sunday
Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
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So much good stuff, I don’t know where to begin . . .
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
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Hat's Off!
| ...to Alice Owens Johnson . She is a finalist in the Hidden River Arts 2006 Awards for her short story "Mrs. Peacock Did it in the Conservatory." |
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