Bookmark with Don Noble

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, author Inman Majors discusses his third novel, The Millionaires, a fictionalized account of the brothers who helped bring the World's Fair to Knoxville, Tennessee. Blending history, humor, and sharp social observation, Majors explores ambition, family, money, and the subtle distinctions of class in the New South. The novel offers a smart and serious look at how personal dreams and civic pride can collide in a changing Southern landscape. Don Noble spoke with Inman Majors on the campus of The University of Alabama.

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, Alabama author Gin Phillips joins Don Noble in the studio at Reese Phifer Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama to discuss her novel Come In and Cover Me. Phillips first gained national attention with her debut novel, The Well and the Mine, set in Carbon Hill, Alabama in 1931, which won the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Rather than returning to an Alabama mining town for her second novel, Phillips shifted her attention to New Mexico, telling the story of an archaeologist working among ancient Native American ruins in the 21st century. Born in Montgomery and now based in Birmingham, Phillips has gone on to write novels ranging from historical fiction to literary thrillers and middle-grade fiction, with work sold internationally.

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, Don Noble talks with distinguished American poet Galway Kinnell, whose long career made him one of the most admired poetic voices of his generation. Kinnell, whose Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, was also a MacArthur Fellow, a former Vermont State Poet, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Known for poems that explore marriage, children, the body, mortality, animals, the natural world—and, memorably, oatmeal—Kinnell brings warmth, humor, and moral seriousness to this conversation about poetry and the lived experiences that give it power.

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, novelist David Guterson joins Don Noble at Writing Today, Birmingham-Southern College's annual conference for readers and writers, for a conversation about fiction, place, and the Pacific Northwest landscapes that shape his work. Best known for his bestselling novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Guterson has built a literary career rooted in Washington state, with novels including East of the Mountains and Our Lady of the Forest.

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, poet and writer Beth Ann Fennelly talks with Don Noble at the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. A native of the Chicago suburbs who has become as rooted as kudzu in the American South, Fennelly brings humor, insight, and lyric intelligence to a conversation about poetry, place, family, and the writer's life. Fennelly, who served as Mississippi Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2021, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and is the author of poetry, nonfiction, and micro-memoir, including Open House, Tender Hooks, Unmentionables, and Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.

In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, acclaimed poet Andrew Hudgins joins Don Noble for a thoughtful conversation about poetry, storytelling, memory, and the experiences that shape a writer's voice. Hudgins reflects on his Southern background, the craft of writing, and the ways poetry can explore family, faith, history, humor, and the darker corners of human experience.

Don is joined by author Lee Smith to discuss her new novel set in Asheville, NC - Guests On Earth, which features Alabama native Zelda Fitzgerald. Don spoke with Lee in the Alabama Public Television studios in Montgomery, AL.

Don is joined by author Tom Franklin about his works "Hell at the Breech" and "Poachers" at the University of Mississippi.

Don visits with author Michelle Richmond to talk about her novels "The Year of Fog" and "No One You Know" at Rock Point Books in Chattanooga, TN.

After several volumes of fiction, Sena Jeter Naslund had her first great success with Ahab's Wife. Since then she has published Four Spirits, Adam and Eve, and Abundance. The latter focuses on the life of Marie Antoinette. Her new novel, The Fountain of St. James Court explores the lives of both the real life artist who painted the French queen and a fictional writer who writes her novel telling the painter's story.