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SUMMARY:Allan Gurganus & George Singleton
DESCRIPTION:Watch moderator (referee?) DREW PERRY as he survives the interests and eccentricities of two of the Carolinas’ best short story writers\, ALLAN GURGANUS and GEORGE SINGLETON. Born in Rocky Mount\, NC\, Allan Gurganus has written four novels (including the bestselling The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All) and four short story collections and his work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Paris Review and everywhere good literature is read. George Singleton was raised in Greenwood\, SC and has an MFA in fiction from UNC Greensboro. He is the author of two novels and nine short story collections\, including the recent You Want More. With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor\, Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nALLAN GURGANUS is a trained painter\, author\, and eloquent critic of homophobia\, racism and much American foreign policy. He first turned to writing onboard the USS Yorktown during the Vietnam War and subsequently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He is an alum of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he was mentored by Stanley Elkin and John Cheever. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science\, the Fellowship of Southern Writers\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have won four Emmys.\nAuthor Website\n\nGEORGE SINGLETON was raised in Greenwood\, South Carolina. He has published nine collections of stories\, two novels\, and (with Daniel Wallace) a book of advice. In a 2006 interview Singleton recalled his beginnings as a writer and his slow but sure path to national prominence as a southern writer: “I plowed on until I found a voice\, and understood that I would try to write about how the saddest moments can be the funniest.” He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. \nDREW PERRY teaches writing at Elon University and writes a monthly column for Our State magazine. His novels include\, This Is Just Exactly Like You\, a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Best-of-the-Year pick from The Atlanta Journal Constitution\, and a SIBA Okra pick\, and Kids These Days. He lives with his wife and two sons. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/gurganus-singleton/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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SUMMARY:LIVE A Conversation with Billy Collins & Ron Rash
DESCRIPTION:Former US Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS has been hailed as “the most popular poet in America.” RON RASH has been celebrated as the “Appalachian Shakespeare.”  Host Michael Gaspeny will investigate the mysteries of art and the heart in a discussion of their latest works (Whale Day: And Other Poems and In the Valley: Stories) that promises to ripple with wit and soar with elegiac power. [event is free\, but registration is required]\n\n \n  \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nBILLY COLLINS is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal\, Aimless Love\, Horoscopes for the Dead\, Ballistics\, The Trouble with Poetry\, Nine Horses\, Sailing Alone Around the Room\, Questions About Angels\, The Art of Drowning\, and Picnic\, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry\, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day\, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York\, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.\nAuthor Website \nRON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall\, in addition to four prizewinning novels\, including The Cove\, One Foot in Eden\, Saints at the River\, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories\, among them Burning Bright\, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and Chemistry and Other Stories\, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize\, he teaches at Western Carolina University.\nAuthor Website \nMichael Gaspeny is the author of the novella in verse\, The Tyranny of Questions (Unicorn Press) and the chapbooks Re-Write Men and Vocation. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the O. Henry Festival Short Story Contest. He has served as moderator for several Scuppernong and Greensboro Bound events\, including forums on Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin. A former reporter and sportswriter\, he taught journalism and English for almost forty years\, mainly at Bennett College and High Point University\, where he won the distinguished teaching award. For hospice service in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, he has received The Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/collins-rash/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Poetry
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