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Discovering the Literary South:
The Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Series
As novelist, teacher, editor and publisher, no single figure has done more to "discover" the literary South than Louis Rubin. So it is appropriate to name this series in his honor.
The books in this series were published within the last twenty years by writers who have moved beyond the Southern hometowns of their youth. Yet, they take a long look back, not for nostalgia's sake, but to bear witness to the full array of time's interactions with place, memory and family.
All programs are Mondays at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium.
- February 9--Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan, speaker Tom Douglass of ECU.
- March 1--A Virtuous Woman by Kay Gibbons, speaker Rebecca Godwin of Barton College.
- March 22--The Jew Store by Stella Suberman, speaker Willie Nelms of Sheppard Memorial Library.
- April 12--Clover by Dori Sanders, speaker Marie Farr of ECU.
- May 3--The Coal Tattoo by Silas House, speaker Jim Clark of Barton College.
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the North Carolina Center for the Book, a program of the State Library of North Carolina and is sponsored by the Friends of the New Bern-Craven County Public Library.