Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat / Bill Thompson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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"--

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

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