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Join us at Words Awake! March 23 – March 25, 2012 |
 John F. Blair, Publisher, will be among several area publishers and booksellers participating in Wake Forest University's Words Awake! A Celebration of Wake Forest Writers and Writing!—to look back to Wake Forest writers of the past; hear the work of current writers; debate the nature of writing today and tomorrow; inspire Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school students and Wake Forest students; and honor writers important to the heritage of writing at our University. Come join poets, screenwriters, novelists, journalists, critics, and prose non-fiction authors who share and shape that legacy!
Binocular Vision Named Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Story Prize! |
 Accolades keep rolling in for Edith Pearlman!
Binocular Vision is now the first book to be nominated for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the same year! Founded in 1974, the NBCC Award is given by the National Book Critics Circle, the professional organization of book reviewers and critics. Past winners in the fiction category include some of our greatest writers including E. L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, John Updike, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy, and Marilynne Robinson. Winners will be announced March 8, 2012.
The three finalists for the Story Prize, an annual award for books of short fiction chosen from among a field of 92 books that 60 different publishers or imprints submitted in 2011, are: The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo, We Others by Steven Millhauser, and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman. The winner will be announced March 21, 2012.
Binocular Vision was also a finalist for the 2011 National Book Awards along with Téa Obreht‘s The Tiger’s Wife, Andrew Krivak's The Sojourn, Julie Otsuka‘s The Buddha in the Attic, and the winner, Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones.
Growing Gills Named Finalist for Reed Writing Award! |
 Congratulations David Joy!
Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey by David Joy has been selected as a finalist for the 17th annual Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, sponsored by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Judges for this year include Nikki Giovanni and Silas House. Winners will be announced at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 24, 2012
Learn more about the award here.
 This book weaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. In this richly illustrated architectural history, the author shows how a black youth born in North Carolina shortly after the Civil War earned a professional architecture degree at MIT, and how he then used his design and administrative skills to further Booker T. Washington’s agenda of community solidarity and—in defiance of the then-expanding Jim Crow policies. The book also considers such issues as architectural education for African Americans at the turn of the 20th century, the white donors who funded Tuskegee’s buildings, other Tuskegee architects, and Taylor’s buildings elsewhere.
 The existence of the Gullahs went almost unnoticed until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish the Penn School to help freed slaves learn to read and write. There, they discovered hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with its own language, traditions, medicine, weaving, and art.
Author Wilbur Cross originally set out to make the excellent work of the Penn Center known and to introduce the Gullah culture to people in America. He became entranced with the Gullah way of life and ended up with 12 chapters that explore the various facets of Gullah culture. Gullah Culture in America not only explores the history of Gullah but also shows readers what it’s like to grow up and live in this unique American community.
 Of the families that boarded the “unsinkable” Titanic in 1912, only a fourth stayed together during the sinking and arrived safely in New York. Albert and Sylvia Caldwell and their 10-month-old son, Alden, were one of those rare Titanic families. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, a journalism professor at Samford University, draws on first-person accounts from her great-Uncle Albert and extensive research to tell the fascinating story of the young family who were saved by a combination of luck, pluck, Albert’s outgoing nature, Sylvia’s illness, and Alden’s helplessness. Their detailed story of the short life of the Titanic and their lucky rescue aboard the ill-starred Lifeboat 13 has never been fully told in Titanic literature. A Rare Titanic Family includes a photo taken of them on deck—an unusual surviving souvenir sent to them after the disaster. But the trip on the Titanic was only one part of a bigger nightmare for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows the true-life plot twists in a biographical account of a family that survived the Titanic but could never escape the shadow the ship cast over them.
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