Oct. 17: Novelist A. Manette Ansay talks with host Don Noble about the importance of the physical landscape in her novels, including RIVER ANGEL, where an angel may—or may not have—appeared to a struggling community.
Oct. 24: Host Don Noble speaks with John Barth, one of the nation’s most distinguished men of letters, about his preoccupation in his fiction with twins and Shahrazad, the enchanting storyteller from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Oct. 31: Lee May, a journalist born in Mississippi, was at ground zero
covering many of the major news events of the last 20 years. May talks with
host Don Noble about his memoir of reconciliation with his father and his
decision to quit writing front-page news.
Nov. 4 & Nov. 7: Madison Jones, of Auburn, Ala., talks about NASHVILLE 1864: THE DYING OF THE LIGHT, his powerful novel about a boy who witness the Confederacy’s twilight when he sets out to find his soldiering father and return him to the failing family farm. Jones is the recent recipient of the T.S. Elliot Award for Lifetime Achievement in Creative Writing and the Harper Lee Award, given annually to a distinguished Alabama writer by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.
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