Bookmark with Don Noble

For over 30 years, English professor Don Noble engages authors in a thoughtful discussion about their lives, creative influences, and of course, their literary works. Produced by the Center for Public Television & Radio at the University of Alabama.

Bookmark with Don Noble - Michael Martone (2023) 06/20/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Michael Martone (2023) 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. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36579565

Bookmark with Don Noble - Roy Hoffman (2014) 06/18/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Roy Hoffman (2014) 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 Asia, now often shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico. Don spoke with Roy Hoffman at the annual Alabama Writer's Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36568155

Bookmark with Don Noble - Robert Morgan (2014) 06/14/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Robert Morgan (2014) 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 at the Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, AL. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567835

Bookmark with Don Noble - John T. Edge (2021) 06/11/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - John T. Edge (2021) 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. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567790

Bookmark with Don Noble - May Lamar (2014) 06/08/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - May Lamar (2014) 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 May Lamar at the annual Alabama Writer's Symposium in Monroeville, AL. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567470

Bookmark with Don Noble - Marshall Chapman (2013) 06/04/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Marshall Chapman (2013) 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. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567370

Bookmark with Don Noble - Mark Childress (2014) 05/31/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Mark Childress (2014) One of America's best loved novelists, Mark Childress has written a shelf of books, including A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, One Mississippi, Georgia Bottoms, and his most widely known Crazy in Alabama. This year's recipient of the Harper Lee Award winner joined Don Noble at the annual Alabama Writer Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567270

Bookmark with Don Noble - Margaret Wrinkle (2013) 05/29/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Margaret Wrinkle (2013) When Margaret Wrinkle of Birmingham, who had already produced a documentary Broken Ground about racial strife in her hometown and learned that her ancestors had owned slaves, she need to know more. Her extensive research finally took the shape of a novel, Wash, a powerful and trouble novel set on a cotton plantation in Tennessee in the 1820s. Don spoke with Margaret the the Alabama Public Television studios. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36567215

Bookmark with Don Noble - Lila Quintero Weaver 05/21/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Lila Quintero Weaver The past few years have seen the rise of the graphic novel, but Lila Quintero Weaver is a pioneer - the first to write and draw a graphic memoir. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White tells the story of Weaver's childhood in Marion, Alabama during the turbulent years of civil rights demonstrations and integration /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36565000

Bookmark with Don Noble - Koethi Zan (2014) 05/18/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Koethi Zan (2014) Don's guest this week is author Koethi Zan, former New York city entertainment lawyer, was determined to try her hand at fiction. Her first novel, The Never List, is the chilling story of a young woman's abduction, her time chained in a basement and her final escape told in the first person. The novel conveyed to readers the terror of the experience and the post-traumatic effects that were so difficult to deal with. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36564885

Bookmark with Don Noble - Margaret Verble (2023) 05/16/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Margaret Verble (2023) Today Don sits with Margaret Verble, author of Two Feathers Fell From The Sky, a novel about a horse-diver named Two Feathers, a Cherokee, and involves ghosts, graves and animals with spirits. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36564750

Bookmark with Don Noble - Joan McBreen (2013) 05/14/2025

Bookmark with Don Noble - Joan McBreen (2013) Don sits down with Irish poet Joan McBreen to talk about her work, including "The White Page" and "The Watchful Heart" at the Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, AL. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/36564670

Bookmark with Don Noble: Keith Thompson (2024) 12/11/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Keith Thompson (2024) Author Keith Thompson sits with Don Noble to discuss his book about the days of pirates and loot. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33505762

Bookmark with Don Noble: Homer Hickam (2013) 12/06/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Homer Hickam (2013) Homer Hickam joins Don Noble to talk about his career in writing. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33505727

Bookmark with Don Noble: William Carter (2001) 12/02/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: William Carter (2001) UAB professor William Carter talks about his book “Marcel Proust: A Life.” /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33505662

Bookmark with Don Noble: Lee Rozelle (2023) 11/29/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Lee Rozelle (2023) Lee Rozelle sits with Don Noble to discuss his unorthodox book "The Ballad of Jasmine Wills." /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33505572

Bookmark with Don Noble: Patti Callahan (2023) 11/25/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Patti Callahan (2023) Don Noble sits with best selling author Patti Callahan Henry to discuss her latest novel The Secret Book of Flora Lea, as well as her previous works. #authortube #author #authorvlog /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33505532

Bookmark with Don Noble: Charles McNair (2014) 11/22/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Charles McNair (2014) Charles McNair discusses his novel "Pickett's Charge" with Don on this week's Bookmark. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33504617

Bookmark with Don Noble: Victor Luckerson (2024) 11/17/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Victor Luckerson (2024) Victor Luckerson is a journalist and author based in Tulsa who works to bring neglected Black history to light, Don discussed with Victor about his recent book "Built From The Fire" #books #booktube #author #authortube #bookreview /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33504472

Bookmark with Don Noble: Barbara Brown Taylor (2013) 11/12/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Barbara Brown Taylor (2013) Former pastor Barbara Taylor Brown joins Don Noble to talk about her memoir "Leave Church: A Memoir of Faith" /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33504387

Bookmark with Don Noble: Kim Cross (2024) 11/09/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Kim Cross (2024) Kim Cross joins Don Noble at the University of Alabama to talk about her new true crime study In Light Of All Darkness. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33504297

Bookmark with Don Noble: Al Elmore (2013) 11/05/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Al Elmore (2013) Author Al Elmore joins Don Noble to discuss his book "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer" /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33504272

Bookmark with Don Noble: Deborah Johnson (2014) 11/02/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Deborah Johnson (2014) The Air Between Us and The Secret of Magic author Deborah Johnson joins Don Noble on Bookmark. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503462

Bookmark with Don Noble: William Gay (2007) 10/30/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: William Gay (2007) The Tennessee native lived in New York and Chicago in his youth, and worked as a carpenter and house painter most of his life. He wrote beginning at an early age, but his first publication came only in 1998. His first novel, The Long Home, published in 1999 established him as a southern writer of note, and his work has been compared to Faulkner, O'Connor and Larry Brown. Later works included Provinces of Night, and I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. Much of his writing is dark and gritty in the Southern Gothic tradition. Mr. Gay died in 2012. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503337

Bookmark with Don Noble: Judith Ortiz Cofer (2013) 10/26/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Judith Ortiz Cofer (2013) Don Noble is joined by author Judith Ortiz Cofer to talk about her multi-genre successes. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503282

Bookmark with Don Noble - Clifton Taulbert (2014) 10/23/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble - Clifton Taulbert (2014) Author Clifton Taulbert joins Don to talk about his career, including his newest book "The Invitation" /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503262

Bookmark with Don Noble: Jennifer Horne (2023) 10/20/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Jennifer Horne (2023) This week Bookmark has a very special guest, Don's wife Jennifer Horne to talk about her new book on Sara Mayfield, the eccentric Tuscaloosa socialite and author. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503187

Bookmark with Don Noble: Jill McCorkle (2013) 10/17/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Jill McCorkle (2013) Author Jill McCorkle joins Don to talk about her new novel "Life After Life" /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33503177

Bookmark with Don Noble: Trish O'Kane (2024) 10/15/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble: Trish O'Kane (2024) In this episode of Bookmark, host Don Noble interviews author Trish O'Kane about her inspiring memoir, Birding to Change the World. O'Kane shares how birdwatching became a powerful tool for personal transformation and environmental activism. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/33471692

Bookmark with Don Noble - James Hansen (2023) 08/14/2024

Bookmark with Don Noble - James Hansen (2023) Today's guest is historian and Auburn professor James Hansen, about his latest book "Completely Mad", a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. /episode/index/show/bookmark/id/32447757

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