Greensboro Bound

A Conversation with Casey Cep
2020-05-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Join us Saturday, May 16th at 7:00PM as we talk with Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Penguin Random House). Get yourself a copy in advance Scuppernong Books !
Furious Hours tells the jaw-dropping true-crime story of a small-town preacher accused of killing five of his family members for the insurance money, about the vigilante who shot him, and about the lawyer who defended them both. Having helped report on In Cold Blood with childhood friend Truman Capote, Harper Lee had a template for the story she wanted to tell—and being who she was, she saw in this almost tabloid-tale a parable about race and criminal justice. In the years after To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee tried to write this story, but it never came to fruition. Casey Cep picks up where Lee left off and shares with us an account of three very different American lives, including that of Harper Lee herself, and how they briefly but spectacularly intersected.
Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and is available in hardcover, as an e-book, and as an audiobook. A proud graduate of the Talbot County Public Schools, she has an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She was born and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she still lives with her family.
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Lee Smith - A Life In Writing
2020-05-10 16:00 - 17:30
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Join North Carolina literary eminence Lee Smith Sunday, May 10 at 4:00PM as she talks about her writing life and her new novella, Blue Marlin (Blair). New York Times best-selling author Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny, an adventurous 13-year-old, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s affair.
Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, LEE SMITH began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.
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