Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat /
Thompson, Bill, 1948-
Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat / Art and craft Bill Thompson. - Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full / Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale / Diane Ackerman's An Alchemy of Mind / Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?(20) / Michael Cunningham's The Hours / Pat Conroy's Beach Music / Charles Baxter's Shadow Play / Joyce Carol Oates's We Are the Mulvaneys / Thomas Keneally's Schlindler's List / Gary Smith's Beyond the Game / Jill McCorkle's Final Vinyl Days / Tim O'Brien's Tomcat in Love / David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr Darwin / Jack Bass's OP Strom / Linda Lear's Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature / Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown / James I. Robertson's Stonewall Jackson / Lisa Rogak's Haunted Heart / Donald Spoto's High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly / Dick Côte's Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison / Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel / Gregory Jaynes's Come Hell on High Water / R.W. Apple's Apple's America / Sue Monk Kidd's Traveling with Pomegranates / Robert Olen Butler's Had a Good Time / Jack Hitt's Off the Road / Roy Blount's Not Exactly What I Had in Mind / Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain / Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family / Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic / Winston Groom's Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville / Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative / Howard Bahr's The Year of Jubilo / James McPherson's Writing the Civil War / William C. Davis's Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America / Lee Smith's On Agate Hill / Robert Rosen's Jewish Confederates / Doug Bostick's Charleston Under Siege / James M. Hutchisson's DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess / Susan Millar Williams's A Devil and a Good Woman, Too / Martha Severens's The Charleston Renaissance / Barbara Bellow's A Talent for Living / Louise Allen's A Bluestocking in Charleston / Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather / John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / Patricia Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure / Sue Grafton's P Is for Peril / Mickey Spillane's The Ship That Never Was / James Ellroy's Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales / Joe Queenan's Queenan Country / Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise / Robin Cook's Critical / Mary Alice Monroe's Sweetgrass / Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall / Roger Pinckney's Signs and Wonders / David Cox's Dirty Secrets, Dirty War / Fritz Hollings's Making Government Work / Harriett McBryde Johnson's Too Late to Die Young / Will Moredock's Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach / Herb Frazier's Behind God's Back / Dick Cavett's Talk Show / David Steinberg's The Book of David / Carl Reiner's just Deserts / Larry Doyle's I Love You Beth Cooper / Bill Geist's Way Off the Road / Brian Lamb's "Booknotes" / Bret Lott's How to Get Home / William Baldwin's A Gentleman of Charleston and the Manner of His Death / Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere Else on Earth / Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight / Charles Seabrook's Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses / Sidney Rittenberg's The Man Who Stayed Behind / Anne LeClercq's Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler / Dori Sanders's Her Own Place / Anne Rivers Siddons's Sweetwater Creek / Padget Powell's Edisto Revisited / Elise Blackwell's Grub / Harlan Greene's The German Officer's Boy / Ben Moise's Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden / Dorothea Benton Frank's Porch Lights / Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen / Sex and Destiny by Germaine Gree / Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Learning / Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain / Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance / J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey / Less Than Glory by Norman Gelb / American Beat by Bob Greene / Sean Connery by Andrew Yule / Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould / New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson / Adventures in Porkland by Brian Kelly / Fishing in the Tiber by Lance Morrow / Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys.
"Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, Art and Craft also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews. Featuring: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe"--
9781611174434 9781611174434
Books--Reviews.
Electronic Books.
Z1003 / .A783 2015
Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat / Art and craft Bill Thompson. - Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full / Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale / Diane Ackerman's An Alchemy of Mind / Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?(20) / Michael Cunningham's The Hours / Pat Conroy's Beach Music / Charles Baxter's Shadow Play / Joyce Carol Oates's We Are the Mulvaneys / Thomas Keneally's Schlindler's List / Gary Smith's Beyond the Game / Jill McCorkle's Final Vinyl Days / Tim O'Brien's Tomcat in Love / David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr Darwin / Jack Bass's OP Strom / Linda Lear's Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature / Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown / James I. Robertson's Stonewall Jackson / Lisa Rogak's Haunted Heart / Donald Spoto's High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly / Dick Côte's Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison / Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel / Gregory Jaynes's Come Hell on High Water / R.W. Apple's Apple's America / Sue Monk Kidd's Traveling with Pomegranates / Robert Olen Butler's Had a Good Time / Jack Hitt's Off the Road / Roy Blount's Not Exactly What I Had in Mind / Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain / Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family / Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic / Winston Groom's Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville / Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative / Howard Bahr's The Year of Jubilo / James McPherson's Writing the Civil War / William C. Davis's Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America / Lee Smith's On Agate Hill / Robert Rosen's Jewish Confederates / Doug Bostick's Charleston Under Siege / James M. Hutchisson's DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess / Susan Millar Williams's A Devil and a Good Woman, Too / Martha Severens's The Charleston Renaissance / Barbara Bellow's A Talent for Living / Louise Allen's A Bluestocking in Charleston / Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather / John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / Patricia Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure / Sue Grafton's P Is for Peril / Mickey Spillane's The Ship That Never Was / James Ellroy's Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales / Joe Queenan's Queenan Country / Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise / Robin Cook's Critical / Mary Alice Monroe's Sweetgrass / Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall / Roger Pinckney's Signs and Wonders / David Cox's Dirty Secrets, Dirty War / Fritz Hollings's Making Government Work / Harriett McBryde Johnson's Too Late to Die Young / Will Moredock's Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach / Herb Frazier's Behind God's Back / Dick Cavett's Talk Show / David Steinberg's The Book of David / Carl Reiner's just Deserts / Larry Doyle's I Love You Beth Cooper / Bill Geist's Way Off the Road / Brian Lamb's "Booknotes" / Bret Lott's How to Get Home / William Baldwin's A Gentleman of Charleston and the Manner of His Death / Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere Else on Earth / Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight / Charles Seabrook's Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses / Sidney Rittenberg's The Man Who Stayed Behind / Anne LeClercq's Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler / Dori Sanders's Her Own Place / Anne Rivers Siddons's Sweetwater Creek / Padget Powell's Edisto Revisited / Elise Blackwell's Grub / Harlan Greene's The German Officer's Boy / Ben Moise's Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden / Dorothea Benton Frank's Porch Lights / Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen / Sex and Destiny by Germaine Gree / Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Learning / Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain / Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance / J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey / Less Than Glory by Norman Gelb / American Beat by Bob Greene / Sean Connery by Andrew Yule / Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould / New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson / Adventures in Porkland by Brian Kelly / Fishing in the Tiber by Lance Morrow / Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys -- Josephine Humphreys.
"Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, Art and Craft also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews. Featuring: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe"--
9781611174434 9781611174434
Books--Reviews.
Electronic Books.
Z1003 / .A783 2015