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North Carolina Bookwatch 2003 - 2004 episodes
- Timothy Silver: Mount Mitchell & The Black MountainsTimothy Silver is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His previous publications include A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.26 min
- Ron Rash: One Foot in EdenThe book impressed the selection committee, not only with its captivating story line, but also because Rash's voice lends such authenticity to the story's characters and setting.27 min
- Virginia Holdman: Rescuing Patty Hearst......of Chapel Hill and taught creative writing in public schools, community women's centers, and hospices. From 1999 to 2001, she was the writer in residence at Duke University Medical Center, where her work with long-term patients was featured in the national media. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her27 min
- Gwendoline Fortune: Growing Up Nigger RichBorn in Houston, Texas, Gwendoline Y. Fortune grew up hearing stories of her "mixed blood" heritage: a free-born black great-grandfather, Native Americans, Scot-Irishmen, a cowboy grandfather, a Confederate great-grandfather and relatives who were missionaries in pre-World War II China. She went to college at the age of fifteen and has been writing ever since. Selections from Growing Up Nigger RicH27 min
- Reynolds Price:A Serious Way of WonderingAmong Reynolds Price's thirty-five volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, essays and translations are many works of religious inquiry that explore topics at the forefront of theological debate. In his latest book, A Serious Way of Wondering, the self-described outlaw Christian interweaves imagined encounters with Jesus and lively analysis of Jesus' ethics.27 min
- Haven Kimmel: The Solace of Leaving EarlyHaven Kimmel's irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. This Durham native with the "Zippy" Nickname joins D.G. Martin to discuss her joyous new story about finding one's better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.27 min
About North Carolina Bookwatch 2003 - 2004
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UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch is the state’s premier literary series, bringing the Tar Heel State’s best and brightest Southern writers to the small screen. In every illuminating interview, host D.G. Martin sheds light on authors’ lives, books and the state’s indelible imprint on their works.
D.G. Martin has hosted North Carolina Bookwatch since the series’ third season in 1999. A Yale Law School graduate and former Green Beret, Martin has been involved with public service, and politics throughout his life, including stints as interim Vice Chancellor for Development and University Affairs at both UNC-Pembroke and North Carolina Central University, work as the Carolinas Director of the Trust for Public Land, and a hard-fought 1998 campaign for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate against John Edwards.