Novello
Ten Years of Great American Writing

Edited by Frye Galliard, Amy Rogers, and Robert Inman

978-1-878086-87-7
0-878086-87-1
$16.95 paperback
6 x 9
348 pages
B-W photographs, Index

  Novello Festival Press

This remarkable collection celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Novello Festival of Reading, one of the premier literary events in the country.

Each of the twenty-five contributors to this book has appeared at Novello. Some of the essays and stories may be familiar to readers, but many appear here for the first time; together they represent a sampler of the best writing of our time.

Charles Kuralt reminisces about a time when old ways began to give way to modern life. Pat Conroy crafts a raw and wryly funny remembrance of his father, Donald Conroy, the inspiration for The Great Santini. In a selection chosen by the author, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam offers a look back at his early career.

Novelists Lee Smith and Nanci Kincaid introduce readers to new works in progress, and Sandra Govan, a scholar and professor of African-American literature, tells a true-life story about her childhood "bibliomania" and where it led.

authors featured in Novello include: