Bookmark with Don Noble - Neal Wooten (2023)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Today's guest is Neal Wooten, who has written a chilling memoir of growing up on Sand Mountain. He also works as a stand-up comedian and writes comic strips. Don spoke with Neal in Studio UA at the University of Alabama.
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Frank Sikora (2014)
Bookmark with Don Noble
The 2014 winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction has a long career in journalism at the Birmingham News and is the author of a shelf of books on Alabama. Among the best known are The Judge, a biography of Frank Johnson Jr., Until Justice Rolls Down the story of the 16th Street Church bombing, and Selma Lord Selma interviews with two little girls who lived through the historical events at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the March to Montgomery. Sikora is also the author of an amusing Alabama family memoir, Let Us Now Praise...
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Tom Franklin (2013)
Bookmark with Don Noble
From his debut volume Poachers, through his novels Hell at the Breach and Spunk, Tom Franklin's reputation has grown steadily. His newest Crooked is the story of a white man perhaps unjustly ostracized by his community as a murderer and the local black constable who had been his childhood friend. Franklin and his wife the poet Beth Ann Fennelly have courageously collaborated on a novel titled World Which Is To Be, released in the fall of 2013. Don spoke with Tom at Northeast Community College in Rainsville, AL.
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Steve Trout (2022)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Don is joined by Steve Trout, a historian and literary critic specializing in America's 20th century wars. His most recent book is The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial at Angel Fire. Don spoke with Steve in Studio UA at the University of Alabama's Digital Media Center.
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Michael Martone (2023)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Today's guest is Michael Martone, the 2023 winner of the Truman Capote prize for distinguished work in short fiction. He is the author of 14 books of stories. Don interviewed Michael on campus at the University of Alabama, in Studio UA at the Digital Media Center.
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Roy Hoffman (2014)
Bookmark with Don Noble
In his many profiles and articles for the Mobile Press Register gathered in collections, such as Back Home and Alabama Afternoons, and in his novels, Roy Hoffman makes his readers aware of the cultural diversity of the modern south, especially Alabama. While exploring mainly the sacrafices families, especially wives and daughters, must make when America goes to war. His new novel Come Landfall dramatized the interactions between tenerations and between old South protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and the newest southerners "the boat people" arrived from Southeast...
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Robert Morgan (2014)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Robert Morgan was already a widely published writer when his book Gap Creek, a story of hardscrabble life in Appalachia was made an Oprah selection. With the acoompnying sales and excitement since Gap Creek, Morgan has published a biography of Daniel Boone, Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution, Lions of the West - a study of such semi-mythological figures as Sam Houston and Kit Carson. Now he has returned to his native Appalachia in The Road from Gap Creek, the sequel to his best selling novel. Don spoke with Robert Morgan...
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Bookmark with Don Noble - John T. Edge (2021)
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This week Don spoke with John T. Edge, arguably the world's greatest expert on southern food. Edge has been a columnnist for the New York Times, The Oxford American, Garden and Gun and is the author of a shelf full of books, his latest being The Potlicker Papers. The story of the modern self told through foods and cooks. Don spoke with John in Studio UA on campus at the University of Alabama.
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Bookmark with Don Noble - May Lamar (2014)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Sydney Lanier was for years famous as the poet of the confederacy. Southern boys and girls would memorize large swatches of The Song of the Chattahoocheee and The Marshes of Glynn. Except for his time as a prisoner in the Union POW camp, however, little was known about Lanier's short 39 year life. May Lamar of Montgomery, AL has done her research and written an engaging biographical novel dramatizing Lanier's college days. He struggles with illness and poverty during reconstruction and his fierce determination to be an artist. Don spoke with...
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Bookmark with Don Noble - Marshall Chapman (2013)
Bookmark with Don Noble
Marshall Chapman has had a colorful and tumultuous life as a singer and songwriter in Nashville, and now has begun sharing her stories with readers in her memoir Goodbye Little Rock and Roller and in her latest book They Came To Nashville. Her stories are filled with Nashville legends like Willie Neslon and Kris Kristofferson. Don spoke with Marshall at the Pebble Hill Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities on the campus of Auburn University.
info_outlineDon is joined by Steve Trout, a historian and literary critic specializing in America's 20th century wars. His most recent book is The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial at Angel Fire. Don spoke with Steve in Studio UA at the University of Alabama's Digital Media Center.