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Allan Gurganus to be honored at The North Carolina Writers Conference 7/28-29

The North Carolina Writers Conference July 28 – 29, 2017 Rocky Mount, NC Honoring Allan Gurganus Full Program Here: NCWC2017Program 2017 PROGRAM Friday, July 28 3:00-5:00 Conference Registration – Holiday Inn 200 […]

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Elisabetta Pagini Interviews Allan Gurganus for La Stampa, September 2015

EP: “Saints Have Mothers” is going to be published in Italy in September and “Saint Monster” to be republished then, too. Both have saints in the title. And some sort […]

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CBS Sunday Morning – What the Graves Give Us

Author of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” and “Local Souls” describes the joys of living next to a cemetery for CBS Sunday Morning.

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Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers – Allan Gurganus

Podcast of Allan Gurganus reading at UCLA Hammer Library on October 10, 2013

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Allan Gurganus on Collections in The New York Times

Beauty Is Its Own Excuse: The novelist Allan Gurganus discovered the secret to happiness: collecting.

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“How I Write” Allan Gurganus – The Daily Beast

Noah Charney interviews Allan Gurganus for The Daily Beast

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NY Times Sunday Book Review

It’s been 12 years since Gurganus last published a full-length work — but if there remains any doubt of his literary greatness, his fifth book, “Local Souls,” should put it to rest forever.

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Kirkus Reviews

Starred Kirkus Review

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The New Yorker: Fear of Sex in Fiction

The New Yorker – Read the interview titled The Fear of Sex in Fiction: The New Shyness

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Allan Gurganus returns with three empathetic novellas. In his first published fiction in 12 years, Gurganus probes the innards of small-town life, but neither he nor his characters judge.

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‘Local Souls’ Reviewed in the Miami Herald

The gem of Local Souls is the gorgeous Decoy, in which Gurganus removes the gloves and delivers the literary equivalent of a bare-knuckled knockout. Decoy is so good that you want to lob all sorts of adjectives its way: warm, humane, profound, sagacious, hilarious, nostalgic, and incisive.

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Allan Gurganus on NPR’s The State of Things

Allan Gurganus talked with Frank Stasio about new book Local Souls on “The State of Things”

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Publication Day is Here!

Today is publication day for Local Souls, Allan Gurganus’s new book.

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Allan Gurganus is Back…With a Bang

Say Allan Gurganus’s name in a group of readers, and several may tell you that the Rocky Mount native’s “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” is their favorite novel of all time.

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Virginia Quarterly Review

The Deluxe $19.95 Walking Tour of Historic Falls (NC)—Light Lunch Inclusive

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Bull: Men’s Fiction

September issue of “Bull: Men’s Fiction”

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The Oxford American

The September issue of “The Oxford American” features William Giraldi’s epic ten-thousand word profile about the making of “Local Souls”

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Indy Week

Hillsborough novelist Allan Gurganus on Moral Mondays and Local Souls, his first book in more than a decade

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Audio Book recorded

Allan Gurganus has recorded “Local Souls” in its entirety for Audible Books.

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Local Souls Release Date September 23rd

If Allan Gurganus’ first comic novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new century.

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