North Carolina Authors Dominate Recent Book News
North Carolina born writers lead national book coverage with Walker Percy winning the National Book Award for Fiction for The Moviegoer. Reynolds Price and Jonathan Beam novels highlight regional life, while Brantley’s The Education of Jonathan Beam sparks Baptist debate in North Carolina. The wave underscores a strong regional imprint on contemporary fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
New York
Walker Percy
Knopf
Birmingham
Ala
Percy
University of North Carolina
Sewanee Review
Covington
Lewis Gannett
Herbert Gold
Jean Stafford
Mr. Percy
Chapel Hill
SAE
Russell Brantley
Jonathan Beam
Macmillan
Brantley
Convention College
Jonathan
Wake Forest College
State Baptist Convention
Wake Forest
Baptists
Charlotte
Nane Starnes
Asheville
Marie Grant
The
Biblical Recorder
J. Glenn Blackburn
Story Declines Crane Eden Novel Satirizes a Dying Actor
Review by Earl Conrad discusses Bernard Geis's 4.95 novel about Crane Eden a dissolute actor spiraling into decline. Set on a sunlit southern island Eden clings to glamor as a TV pilot and backer clash. The narration speeds along but the shock language and caricature feel overstated leaving Eden unfocused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane Eden
Earl Conrad
Bernard Geis
Crane
Eden
Conrad
Crime Solution Through a Keyhole Witnessing Tragedy
The passage questions Travers account of watching two people in a room through a closet door keyhole. It argues Gary Scott could have left no blood stains if he had struggled and rolled. The critique emphasizes the implausibility of viewing through a small keyhole in an automatic lock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Scott
Travers
The Last of the Whitfields review excerpt
Elise Sanguinetti’s novel explores Felicia Whitfield’s funny yet sharp take on Southern attitudes toward race. The narrator’s childlike perspective frames adult issues as Arthur, the 15 year old, is sent to a Connecticut school to mature. Felicia’s lies about race tests family values and community norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felicia Whitfield
Felicia
Georgia
Elise Sanguinetti
Arthur
Connecticut
List of books and authors in a mixed catalog
A catalog style snippet lists titles and authors across fiction and nonfiction including Franny and Zooey by Salinger, The Agony and the Ecstasy by Stone, A Prologue to Love by Caldwell, To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Chairman of the bored by Streeter, My Life in Court by Nizer, Calorie Counts by Taller, The Making of the President 1960 by White, The Guns of August by Tuchman, My Sabre Is Bent by Paar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franny and Zooey, Salinger
Stone
Love
Caldwell
Lee
Streeter
Nizer
White
Tuchman
Paar
Heldentenor notes and Horowitz to record new label
The piece surveys heldentenor concepts with Lauritz Melchior and the late Ben Gigli born same date in 1890. It reports Vladimir Horowitz starting sessions on a new Columbia label, planning concerto discs with Toscanini link and Ormandy. It mentions Americans versus Russians in the Tchaikovsky International Contest and Daniel Barenboim’s NY debut with the Symphony of the Air, plus Wake Forest concert with Jaime Laredo and Winston-Salem Arts Council spring classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauritz Melchior
Beniamino Gigli
Gigli
Melchior
Vladimir Horowitz
Horowitz
Arturo Toscanini
Lieberson
Columbia Records
Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra
Daniel Barendom
New York
Symphony of the Air
Carnegie Hall
Prokofieff
Winston - Salem Arts Council
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
The High Point Public Library releases a March 1923 bookmobile timetable listing daily routes and times. Monday through Friday cover locations such as College Village Shopping Center Pine Valley Marywood Oak View Woodview Futrelle Ingleside Westover and more with shifts from morning to late afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley
Marywood
Oak View
Woodview
Bridges
Futrelle
Beanpole Baker and the Pressures of Promoters
A tall Negro high school star nicknamed Beanpole faces college recruiters and photographers at a Catskill resort where he works as a bellhop. Reporter Tom Kirk learns Beanpole resents exploitation and the piece satirizes sensationalism and pressuring young athletes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stevenson
MacMillan
Benjamin Franklin Baker
Beanpole
Beanpole Baker
Tom Kirk
Tom
Catskill
Stevenson
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Lewis Mumford
Harcourt, Brace & World
Alan Dugan
Yale University Press
Reynolds Price
Atheneum
Roanoke River
Rosacoke Mustian
Rosacoke
Wesley Beavers
Wesley
Mae
Price
Janet Mathewson
Michael Torrey
Doubleday
Winford B. Johnson
Unionville
Whitfields
McGraw - Hill
D. A. Rawley
van Cliburn
Cliburn
Moscow
Wall Chapel
Jaime Laredo
Morocco
Straughan's Booksellers
N. Main ST
High Point, N. C
Ingleside
Westover
Old Winston Rd
Parkside
Clover
Tabor
Dayton
E. Lexington
E. College
Lindale
Locust
Gordon
Kimrey
Cedrow
Arlington
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford
Ragan
Thissell
Franklin
Worth
Clara Cox
Willard
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Craven's
Sheraton
Craven
Sheraton Restaurant
Thomasville
Repolual
Loan Association
High Point
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