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 […]
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 […]
Author of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” and “Local Souls” describes the joys of living next to a cemetery for CBS Sunday Morning.
Podcast of Allan Gurganus reading at UCLA Hammer Library on October 10, 2013
Beauty Is Its Own Excuse: The novelist Allan Gurganus discovered the secret to happiness: collecting.
Occasionally shocking, consistently understated and knowing, “Local Souls” deploys three related novellas that deal with people who don’t fit in. The world of Allan Gurganus’ first new work of fiction in a dozen years is both familiar and eccentric.
Best known for the 1989 novel “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,” Mr. Gurganus revisits its locale here. Set in the town of Falls, a fictitious rural community of some 6,800 near the real North Carolina city of Raleigh, these unusual novellas, which could stand alone but resonate well together, focus on outliers and taboos.
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