UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch is the state’s premier literary series, bringing the Tar Heel State’s best and brightest Southern writers to the small screen. In every illuminating interview, host D.G. Martin sheds light on authors’ lives, books and the state’s indelible imprint on their works.<br> <br> D.G. Martin has hosted North Carolina Bookwatch since the series’ third season in 1999. A Yale Law School graduate and former Green Beret, Martin has been involved with public service, and politics throughout his life, including stints as interim Vice Chancellor for Development and University Affairs at both UNC-Pembroke and North Carolina Central University, work as the Carolinas Director of the Trust for Public Land, and a hard-fought 1998 campaign for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate against John Edwards. <br><br /> You can subscribe to a MPG3 version of the whole series at <br /><a href="http://podcast.unctv.org/rssfeeds/ncbkw_mp3_podcast.xml">http://podcast.unctv.org/rssfeeds/ncbkw_mp3_podcast.xml</a><br /> http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/ Copyright © UNC-TV, All Rights Reserved http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:59 -0500 webteam@unctv.org Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:53 -0500 webteam@unctv.org FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com North Carolina Bookwatch 2007 UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch is the state’s premier literary series, bringing the Tar Heel State’s best and brightest Southern writers to the small screen. In every illuminating interview, host D.G. Martin sheds light on authors’ lives, books and the state’s indelible imprint on their works. UNC-TV UNC-TV webteam@unctv.org books,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbkw_podcast.jpg http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/ North Carolina Bookwatch 300 300 DG Martin interviews Zelda Lockhart - Cold Running Creek During one of the most tumultuous times for the North American continent (pre and post Civil War) three generations of women, both Native American and African American, struggle to be free in Zelda Lockhart’s book Cold Running Creek. In this episode, the Hillsborough native shares her enlightening and revealing story set amid a chorus of swamps, voodoo, floods, and the inevitable cold-running creek. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw_1016_zlockart.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 87D9D3BF-F12E-44C9-9607-0433BD8B0EB5 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:53 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Zelda Lockhart DG Martin interviews Zelda Lockhart - Cold Running Creek During one of the most tumultuous times for the North American continent (pre and post Civil War) three generations of women, both Native American and African American, struggle to be free in Zelda Lockhart’s book Cold Running Creek. In this episode, the Hillsborough native shares her enlightening and revealing story set amid a chorus of swamps, voodoo, floods, and the inevitable cold-running creek. 25:42 UNC-TV Georgann Eubanks,Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Georgann Eubanks - Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains In her guidebook, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, the first of three regional volumes, Carrboro's own Georgann Eubanks invites residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1015_geubanks.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 88EC00EC-B4D9-4392-8A67-A1930442C8C6 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:47 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Georgann Eubanks DG Martin interviews Georgann Eubanks - Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains In her guidebook, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, the first of three regional volumes, Carrboro's own Georgann Eubanks invites residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, Eubanks directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. Along the way, travelers can read outstanding excerpts from the writers, evoking the places, customs, colloquialisms, and characters that figure prominently in their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays. 27:11 UNC-TV Georgann Eubanks,Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews David Guy - Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist practitioner, David Guy. In this episode, the Durham author explores the Zen landscapes of Jakes Fades, acknowledged as a low-key tale of meditation, mentoring, and mouth-watering baked goods. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw_1014_guy.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 7C0AEBB5-0B28-4916-85E0-114009CD6A04 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:43 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | David Guy DG Martin interviews David Guy - Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist practitioner, David Guy. In this episode, the Durham author explores the Zen landscapes of Jakes Fades, acknowledged as a low-key tale of meditation, mentoring, and mouth-watering baked goods. 27:12 UNC-TV David Guy,Jake Fades,A Novel of Impermanence,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Kathryn Stripling Byer - Coming to Rest<br /> Kathryn Stripling Byer's five published books of poetry have won awards including the Lamont Poetry Selection for Wildwood Flower, The Roanoke-Chowan and Brockman Campbell prizes for Black Shawl, and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association Award for Catching Light. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1013_byer.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 7CEECCE6-2FA9-45DF-9526-C178561B88E3 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:40 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Kathryn Stripling Byer DG Martin interviews Kathryn Stripling Byer - Coming to Rest Kathryn Stripling Byer's five published books of poetry have won awards including the Lamont Poetry Selection for Wildwood Flower, The Roanoke-Chowan and Brockman Campbell prizes for Black Shawl, and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association Award for Catching Light. Byer’s new poetry collection, entitled Coming to Rest, is considered a re-articulation and a culmination of her distinguished career, which includes her present position as a North Carolina Poet Laureate. In this episode, the award-winning local poet shares her latest works and how they reflect on remembered seasons of personal, familial time and which are said to bring words alive within those distances of nature, time and meaning out of which poetry originally was born. 27:12 UNC-TV Kathryn Stripling Byer,Coming to Rest,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Melton McLaurin - The Marines of Montford Point<br /> Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. In this episode, author Melton McLaurin shares the Marines' stories and reasons for enlisting; their arrival at Montford Point and the training they received there; their lives in a segregated military and in the Jim Crow South; their experiences of combat and service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; and their sustaining legacy. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1012_mclaurin.mp4 webteam@unctv.org F5F5AC25-DCF0-4F26-A19C-2B607A6A3BAE Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:36 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Melton McLaurin DG Martin interviews Melton McLaurin - The Marines of Montford Point. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps—the last all-white branch of the U.S. military—began recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. Between 1942 and 1949, more than 20,000 men trained at Montford Point, most of them going on to serve in the Pacific Theatre in World War II as members of support units. The book, The Marines of Montford Point, in conjunction with the documentary film of the same name, tells the story of these Marines for the first time. Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. In this episode, author Melton McLaurin shares the Marines' stories and reasons for enlisting; their arrival at Montford Point and the training they received there; their lives in a segregated military and in the Jim Crow South; their experiences of combat and service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; and their sustaining legacy. 27:11 UNC-TV Melton McLaurin,The Marines of Montford Point,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Tim Madigan<br /> In this episode of North Carolina Bookwatch, Madigan shares his memories of the man behind Mister Roger’s Neighborhood: an ordained minister, loving husband, father, grandfather, and devoted friend. . http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1011_madigan.mp4 webteam@unctv.org E81D889D-712D-4010-903C-A2BB5E74A4C7 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:34 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Tim Madigan DG Martin interviews Tim Madigan - I’m Proud of You: My Friendship With Fred Rogers. the latest book by author and Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill James L. Peacock, examines the impact of globalism on the Southern identity. In this episode, Peacock explores both the present and the past to develop the idea of “grounded globalism” in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways. 27:19 UNC-TV Tim Madigan,I’m Proud of You: My Friendship With Fred Rogers,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews James Peacock<br /> In this episode, Peacock explores both the present and the past to develop the idea of “grounded globalism” in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1010_peacock.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 8DA79461-2587-4B4C-8591-9F0F33A12AEE Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:30 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | James Peacock DG Martin interviews James Peacock - Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World. Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World, the latest book by author and Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill James L. Peacock, examines the impact of globalism on the Southern identity. In this episode, Peacock explores both the present and the past to develop the idea of “grounded globalism” in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways. 27:11 UNC-TV James Peacock,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Margaret Maron - Hard Row<br /> As Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina, but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well. Mutilated body parts have appeared along the back roads of Colleton County, and the search for the victim's identity and for that of his killer will lead Deborah and her new husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, into the desperate realm of undocumented farm workers exploited for cheap labor.. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1009_maron.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 62F9B28C-88A2-442B-874E-D42BBB693B0C Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:27 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Margaret Maron DG Martin interviews Margaret Maron - Hard Row. Multiple award winner of the most prestigious prizes for mystery fiction, Margaret Maron is back with a new novel on a hot-button issue—immigrant workers—featuring her critically acclaimed (and newly married) sleuth Judge Deborah Knott. As Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina, but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well. Mutilated body parts have appeared along the back roads of Colleton County, and the search for the victim's identity and for that of his killer will lead Deborah and her new husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, into the desperate realm of undocumented farm workers exploited for cheap labor. 27:10 UNC-TV Margaret Maron,Hard Row,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Dan Heath - Made to Stick<br /> In this episode, D.G. Martin talks to co-author and Duke Corporate Education consultant Dan Heath about his critically-acclaimed guide to effectively communicating ideas. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1008_heath.mp4 webteam@unctv.org BB412F64-C29E-4023-A27E-532923EE30AE Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:24 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Dan Heath DG Martin interviews Dan Heath - Made to Stick. Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle, head-on, these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that “stick” and explain sure-fire methods for making ideas stickier, such as violating schemas, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating “curiosity gaps.” In this episode, D.G. Martin talks to co-author and Duke Corporate Education consultant Dan Heath about his critically-acclaimed guide to effectively communicating ideas. 27:10 UNC-TV Dan Heath,Made to Stick,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews James Dodson - Beautiful Madness<br /> In this episode of North Carolina Bookwatch, Dodson shares Beautiful Madness — his true tale of shared horticultural obsession and burrows deeply into the story of how Americans became such fanatical gardeners and are today, in fact, at the forefront of what everyone agrees is a new Gold Age of Gardening, an unprecedented growth in gardening's popularity that has—according to a recent Gallop poll - an astonishing 80 percent of adult Americans claiming to be primary hobby gardeners. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1007_dodson.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 62787DF2-BAB3-4D98-B474-22A5C56F51AB Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:20 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | James Dodson DG Martin interviews James Dodson - Beautiful Madness. During an amazing year of living botanically, author James Dodson went behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows (the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show in England); spent time with the Botticelli of Bulbs; attended a rare-plant auction with high rollers; sneaked into a Hosta convention; communed with the kindred spirits of Thomas Jefferson and John Bartram; met a man smuggling exotic daylilies; learned the inside poop on ten or twelve of the Western world's most influential gardens; swiped cuttings from a Founding Father's shrubbery; hung out with ten or twelve of the most accomplished gardening fanatics on earth; built three new gardens of his own; and wound up hanging perilously from a limb on the side of a cliff in Southern Africa, the birthplace of an estimated one-third of the world's flowers, and capped off a year of incalculable learning and discovery by tagging along with four of America's leading plant hunters on an expedition into the rugged jungles to find the exotic new species of tomorrow. In this episode of North Carolina Bookwatch, Dodson shares Beautiful Madness — his true tale of shared horticultural obsession and burrows deeply into the story of how Americans became such fanatical gardeners and are today, in fact, at the forefront of what everyone agrees is a new Gold Age of Gardening, an unprecedented growth in gardening's popularity that has—according to a recent Gallop poll - an astonishing 80 percent of adult Americans claiming to be primary hobby gardeners. 26:59 UNC-TV James Dodson,Beautiful Madness,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Joanna Catherine Scott - The Road from Chapel Hill<br /> From author Joanna Catherine Scott comes The Road from Chapel Hill—a sweeping tale of the Civil War, unique in its perspective and exquisitely woven, in which three young Southerners worlds apart are joined in a quest for something greater than themselves. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1006_scott.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 48B03C0A-4740-435B-90B7-C64EFDCC005C Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:09:46 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Joanna Catherine Scott DG Martin interviews Joanna Catherine Scott - The Road from Chapel Hill. From author Joanna Catherine Scott comes The Road from Chapel Hill—a sweeping tale of the Civil War, unique in its perspective and exquisitely woven, in which three young Southerners worlds apart are joined in a quest for something greater than themselves. 27:12 UNC-TV Joanna Catherine Scott,The Road from Chapel Hil,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Joseph Bathanti - Coventry<br /> Despite promises to his pregnant wife and dead mother never to follow in the footsteps of his father, Calvin Gaddy takes a job at Coventry Prison in the North Carolina Piedmont. He soon finds himself snared in the literal prison of Coventry—and a cell of his own making. While Gaddy desperately desires to do the right thing, he finds himself seduced again and again by the power that his position on the yard affords him and the diabolical energy of the prison itself. Calvin realizes, over the course of Joseph Bathanti’s new novel, Coventry, that in the hellish world of prison, there is no middle ground. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1005_bathani.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 7D587D96-39B3-4AB6-8D37-1DCAD12D6362 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:50:52 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Joseph Bathanti DG Martin interviews Joseph Bathanti - Coventry. Despite promises to his pregnant wife and dead mother never to follow in the footsteps of his father, Calvin Gaddy takes a job at Coventry Prison in the North Carolina Piedmont. He soon finds himself snared in the literal prison of Coventry—and a cell of his own making. While Gaddy desperately desires to do the right thing, he finds himself seduced again and again by the power that his position on the yard affords him and the diabolical energy of the prison itself. Calvin realizes, over the course of Joseph Bathanti’s new novel, Coventry, that in the hellish world of prison, there is no middle ground. 27:10 UNC-TV Joseph Bathanti,Coventry,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Neal Thompson Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels and the Birth of NASCAR NASCAR, a sport that prides itself on fast-paced, death- defying thrill rides, is quickly emerging as a symbol of America itself. The red, white, and blue logo is splashed across everything from cereal boxes and magazines to clothing and even leather recliners. At a time when some pro-baseball teams play before paltry crowds of a few thousand, attendance at NASCAR races averages nearly 200,000 and is growing by 10 percent a year. The sport’s stars are millionaire celebrities, appearing in music video. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1004_thompson.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 65DC2E34-F8AB-4D68-9C66-1CDA01DF7954 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:45:06 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Neal Thompson DG Martin interviews Neal Thompson Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels and the Birth of NASCAR NASCAR, a sport that prides itself on fast-paced, death- defying thrill rides, is quickly emerging as a symbol of America itself. The red, white, and blue logo is splashed across everything from cereal boxes and magazines to clothing and even leather recliners. At a time when some pro-baseball teams play before paltry crowds of a few thousand, attendance at NASCAR races averages nearly 200,000 and is growing by 10 percent a year. The sport’s stars are millionaire celebrities, appearing in music video. 27:14 UNC-TV Neal Thompson,NASCAR,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Michele Bowen - Holy Ghost Corner<br /> Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique, is puzzled. She can't for the life of her figure out why even Baby Doll Henderson, despite her false teeth and her navy-blue-socks-with-yellow-jelly-sandals-wearing self, can find a man and she can't. Theresa's been looking all of her life and it seems like the only thing she finds are things that need to stay lost--like her on-and-off "friend" and sometime escort, the sneaky businessman, Reverend Parvell Sikes. So, when church mother Queen-Esther Green reacquaints Theresa with the older woman's backslidden-player nephew, Lamont Green, it seems like the same old story. But this time, Theresa decides to listen to God, and what she hears soon brings a smile to her face with the realization that the Holy Ghost has been in her love corner all along. http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1003_bowen.mp4 webteam@unctv.org 34C54468-2527-43B6-A751-6820B6357431 Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:46:49 -0500 North Carolina Bookwatch | Michele Bowen DG Martin interviews Michele Bowen - Holy Ghost Corner. Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique, is puzzled. She can't for the life of her figure out why even Baby Doll Henderson, despite her false teeth and her navy-blue-socks-with-yellow-jelly-sandals-wearing self, can find a man and she can't. Theresa's been looking all of her life and it seems like the only thing she finds are things that need to stay lost--like her on-and-off "friend" and sometime escort, the sneaky businessman, Reverend Parvell Sikes. So, when church mother Queen-Esther Green reacquaints Theresa with the older woman's backslidden-player nephew, Lamont Green, it seems like the same old story. But this time, Theresa decides to listen to God, and what she hears soon brings a smile to her face with the realization that the Holy Ghost has been in her love corner all along. 27:45 UNC-TV Michele Bowen,Holy Ghost Corner,books,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews Governor Mike Easley - Look Out College, Here I Come!<br /> The message behind North Carolina Governor Michael Easley’s new children’s offering Look Out, College, Here I Come! is that it is never too early for kids to begin thinking about college and career goals. Beautifully illustrated by his sister, H. Marie Easley, this charming book features the antics of “Flappy the Fish,” a character that was inspired by her brother Michael, who kept his siblings entertained during their childhood—and still today.<br> http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1002_easley.mp4 webteam@unctv.org ECEC7879-6F22-4079-90BA-C1D3B82D9676 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:56:01 -0700 North Carolina Bookwatch | Mike Easley DG Martin interviews Governor Mike Easley - Look Out College, Here I Come!. The message behind North Carolina Governor Michael Easley’s new children’s offering Look Out, College, Here I Come! is that it is never too early for kids to begin thinking about college and career goals. Beautifully illustrated by his sister, H. Marie Easley, this charming book features the antics of “Flappy the Fish,” a character that was inspired by her brother Michael, who kept his siblings entertained during their childhood—and still today. 27:15 UNC-TV Mike Easley,Look Out College, Here I Come,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no DG Martin interviews J. Peder Zane - The Top Ten Operating under the theory that no one knows more about great books than great writers, J. Peder Zane, book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 British and American writers (Clyde Edgerton, Reynolds Price and Tom Wolfe, among them) to "provide a list, ranked, in order, of what you consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time." http://podcast.unctv.org/ncbkw/ncbw1001_zane.mp4 webteam@unctv.org D0B80DBD-DC54-4306-AE27-C19A3444C049 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:55:59 -0700 North Carolina Bookwatch | J. Peder Zane DG Martin interviews J. Peder Zane - The Top Ten Operating under the theory that no one knows more about great books than great writers, J. Peder Zane, book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 British and American writers (Clyde Edgerton, Reynolds Price and Tom Wolfe, among them) to "provide a list, ranked, in order, of what you consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time." 27:14 UNC-TV J. Peder Zane,The Top Ten,books,poetry,literature,writers,author,editor,North Carolina,southern writers,North Carolina Bookwatch,UNC-TV no no