Wilkes County, also known as the “Moonshine Capital of the World,” was the leading producer of illegal liquor for decades. In 1965, Tom Wolfe’s article in Esquire —“The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!”—made the area nationally famous. Ever since prohibition, the law has been restrictive on distillers in North Carolina. ButContinue Reading
Armed and Luminous/September 2016/Main Street Rag Publishing Company By Grace C. Ocasio Armed and Luminous is Poet Richard Allen Taylor’s latest poetry collection. A fairly recent volume, it was released in September 2016. Those of us who come to Taylor’s volume with preconceived notions of how angels function willContinue Reading
NEMESIS By Brendan Reichs Some stories have their own heartbeat, that races and pulses with every flip of the page. There is no better example of this than with NEMESIS, the first in a new series by New York Times bestselling author Brendan Reichs. Reichs’ lightning-fast pace andContinue Reading
The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue toContinue Reading
A debut novel from Kerri Maniscalco, (the first YA acquisition on James Patterson’s JIMMY Patterson list) will keep readers up late into the night. A hair-raising gothic thriller with a killer protagonist. James Patterson says, “It’s the book I wish I wrote.” In this spine-chilling gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-eraContinue Reading
The Jackson County Arts Council in Sylva, N.C. announces a new exhibit entitled “Fear No Art” by Isabella Jacovino, an artist and author of many dark-epic fantasy novels. Using the grit, grime and socially provocative nature of “guerilla art” as a foundation and blending influences from Dadaism alongside digital elementsContinue Reading
RF Wilson will be reading from his new novel, Deadly Dancing, at 3:00 pm Saturday, Sept. 3 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville, NC and October 15, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC.Continue Reading
10th Annual CSA Scholarship Fundraising Dinner & New Cookbook Southwestern Community College—Burrell Building In their ongoing efforts to successfully fund a $15,000 endowed scholarship with Southwestern Community College (SCC) in Sylva, NC, the founders and board members of Catch the Spirit of Appalachia will host their 10th Annual scholarship dinner. ThisContinue Reading
For some of us, it’s feeling mighty hot in Asheville of late; but I understand it’s generally hotter (and either much drier or substantially wetter) in most parts of the country than it is here. Whatever the weather outside, you’ll find cool, dry air to breathe, and delicious coffee andContinue Reading
