Bookmark with Don Noble

Don is joined by Steve Trout, a historian and literary critic specializing in America's 20th century wars. His most recent book is The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial at Angel Fire. Don spoke with Steve in Studio UA at the University of Alabama's Digital Media Center.

Today's guest is Michael Martone, the 2023 winner of the Truman Capote prize for distinguished work in short fiction. He is the author of 14 books of stories. Don interviewed Michael on campus at the University of Alabama, in Studio UA at the Digital Media Center.

In his many profiles and articles for the Mobile Press Register gathered in collections, such as Back Home and Alabama Afternoons, and in his novels, Roy Hoffman makes his readers aware of the cultural diversity of the modern south, especially Alabama. While exploring mainly the sacrafices families, especially wives and daughters, must make when America goes to war. His new novel Come Landfall dramatized the interactions between tenerations and between old South protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and the newest southerners "the boat people" arrived from Southeast Asia, now often shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico. Don spoke with Roy Hoffman at the annual Alabama Writer's Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama.

Robert Morgan was already a widely published writer when his book Gap Creek, a story of hardscrabble life in Appalachia was made an Oprah selection. With the acoompnying sales and excitement since Gap Creek, Morgan has published a biography of Daniel Boone, Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution, Lions of the West - a study of such semi-mythological figures as Sam Houston and Kit Carson. Now he has returned to his native Appalachia in The Road from Gap Creek, the sequel to his best selling novel. Don spoke with Robert Morgan at the Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, AL.

This week Don spoke with John T. Edge, arguably the world's greatest expert on southern food. Edge has been a columnnist for the New York Times, The Oxford American, Garden and Gun and is the author of a shelf full of books, his latest being The Potlicker Papers. The story of the modern self told through foods and cooks. Don spoke with John in Studio UA on campus at the University of Alabama.

Sydney Lanier was for years famous as the poet of the confederacy. Southern boys and girls would memorize large swatches of The Song of the Chattahoocheee and The Marshes of Glynn. Except for his time as a prisoner in the Union POW camp, however, little was known about Lanier's short 39 year life. May Lamar of Montgomery, AL has done her research and written an engaging biographical novel dramatizing Lanier's college days. He struggles with illness and poverty during reconstruction and his fierce determination to be an artist. Don spoke with May Lamar at the annual Alabama Writer's Symposium in Monroeville, AL.

Marshall Chapman has had a colorful and tumultuous life as a singer and songwriter in Nashville, and now has begun sharing her stories with readers in her memoir Goodbye Little Rock and Roller and in her latest book They Came To Nashville. Her stories are filled with Nashville legends like Willie Neslon and Kris Kristofferson. Don spoke with Marshall at the Pebble Hill Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities on the campus of Auburn University.

One of America's best loved novelists, Mark Childress has written a shelf of books, including A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, One Mississippi, Georgia Bottoms, and his most widely known Crazy in Alabama. This year's recipient of the Harper Lee Award winner joined Don Noble at the annual Alabama Writer Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama.

When Margaret Wrinkle of Birmingham, who had already produced a documentary Broken Ground about racial strife in her hometown and learned that her ancestors had owned slaves, she need to know more. Her extensive research finally took the shape of a novel, Wash, a powerful and trouble novel set on a cotton plantation in Tennessee in the 1820s. Don spoke with Margaret the the Alabama Public Television studios.

The past few years have seen the rise of the graphic novel, but Lila Quintero Weaver is a pioneer - the first to write and draw a graphic memoir. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White tells the story of Weaver's childhood in Marion, Alabama during the turbulent years of civil rights demonstrations and integration