ASHEVILLE Beginning this weekend, three months of Second Saturday events will showcase local artists in the context of three Western North Carolina historic landmarks.
ASHEVILLE Beginning this weekend, three months of Second Saturday events will showcase local artists in the context of three Western North Carolina historic landmarks.
This year’s Orange Prize for fiction has been won by Barbara Kingsolver for Lacuna, and I am delighted. Prizes are good for writers who, in the main, earn very little. Deciding to write means volunteering for poverty: 20 years ago, publishers might offer certain well-known writers six-figure advances on sales and could afford to be reasonably generous to some of the less well known. Those times …