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…
Seeing Angels Clearly: Richard Allen Taylor’s Armed and Luminou
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…
‘NEMESIS’ By Brendan Reichs
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…
Greg Iles comes to Malaprop’s to sign latest novel March 27
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…
‘STALKING JACK THE RIPPER’ new YA Thriller signing Oct. 2
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…
Local artist and author Isabella Jacobin opens “Fear No Art” exhibit
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…
RF Wilson reads from new novel Deadly Dancing.
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.
10th Annual CSA Scholarship Fundraising Dinner & New Cookbook
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…
Poetry at Malaprop’s Sunday Aug. 7
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…