Welcome to Wednesday. For those of you not in the Triad (or the Triad’s media market), Winston-Salem’s NPR station (WFDD) yesterday morning broadcast an interview with Press 53 founder Kevin Watson, and interview you can listen to here. Press 53 will celebrate its 5.3-year anniversary with a party in downtown WS on Saturday. (On Friday, [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
“A Fearsome but Grand Vocation”
Friday, January 21, 2011
That’s how Reynolds Price described writing in a 1991 interview. Last night we shared the news that Mr. Price had passed; this morning we offer more on his life, work, and legacy. Allan Gurganus told the New York Times that Price “showed those of us who went away that the water back home was fine [...]
Reynolds Price
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Reynolds Price, one of our state’s finest writers and human beings, has passed away. Many of you knew Mr. Price very well, and are mourning the passing not just of a literary hero, but of a friend. I only met him once, but he was one of the few men I’ve ever known who was [...]
Sad News from the Weekend
Monday, January 17, 2011
It’s said these come in threes, and, sadly, it was true this weekend for North Carolina and our literary community. In New York Saturday, playwright Romulus Linney died. Though a native of Philadelphia, Linney spent much of his childhood in Boone; his father was a North Carolinian, and his great-grandfather had been a Congressman from [...]
“The Greatest Literary Moments in Film”
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Today’s Shelf Awareness included a link to this blog post in The Independent (U.K.), discussing the “greatest literary moments in film”: not just film adaptations of books, but biopics of authors, and book-related scenes in non-book-based movies. Personally, I stopped buying the old “the book is always better than the film” argument when I read [...]
E-dangers for Writers
Monday, January 10, 2011
21st-century technology is presenting writers with unprecedented opportunities, but new dangers always come along with new possibilities. On Friday, the Writer Beware blog discussed the importance of context when reporting sales figures for e-books and self-published “e-authors” like Seth Godin and Joe Konrath. The next day, AOL’s DailyFinance.com ran a story called “E-Piracy: The High [...]
New Piedmont Laureate Named
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Journalist and author Scott Huler is the new Piedmont Laureate, promoting literature and literacy in the Triangle and surrounding counties. Congratulations to Scott, who “has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing and from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber for The New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles [...]
Links of Interest
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
A few links of interest for your Tuesday reading pleasure: Kathryn Stripling Byer wants her readers to nominate their favorite 2010 books for the SIBA Book Awards. Meanwhile, her publisher is looking for old Stars and Bars to cover Kay’s upcoming collection of sonnets. Over on the Ploughshares blog, Megan Mayhew Bergman offers advice on [...]
Rose Post deadline coming soon
Monday, January 3, 2011
Happy New Year, one and all. We hope 2011 is off to a productive start for all the Network’s members and friends. For those members and friends who write creative nonfiction, please don’t forget that the postmark deadline for submissions to the 2011 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition is Wednesday, January 5 – also known [...]