{"id":1887,"date":"2009-07-09T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:46:05","slug":"lit-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2009\/07\/lit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good Ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Festival<\/strong><br \/>\nLatest news from the N.C. Literary Festival is that local favorites Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle will be doing readings and discussions about the work that inspired the musical Good Ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Girls, at 8 p.m., Sept. 12. Matraca Berg, the Nashville musician who originated the idea for the musicaland her friend, Marshall Chapman, will accompany them, so it should be a most entertaining evening. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Grace AND Kindness<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also excited about the Sept. 11 (7:30 p.m.) presentation of Finding Grace and Kindness in a Winner-Take-All Society by Anna Devere Smith, which is part of the Frank Porter Graham Lecture Series. Perhaps best known for her TV and film work (in The West Wing and Rachel Getting Married), Smith also is known for performance pieces dealing with complex issues and multiple points of view. It sounds most intriguing.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>New McCorkle<\/strong><br \/>\nSpeaking of Jill McCorkle, fans will be happy to know that they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to wait much longer for a new read, since her short-story collection Going Away Shoes is due to hit the streets in September. You can get a signed copy at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham at 7 p.m. on Sept. 23.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRemembering Chapel Hill<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd fans of the Citizen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own Val Schwartz won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to wait at all for a peek at her new book celebrating some of our area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most notable residents, Remembering Chapel Hill: The Twentieth Century as We Lived It. Val\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making multiple local appearances, at Southern Season July 3 from 4-7 p.m. and Aug. 22 from noon-3 p.m., at William Travis Jewelry July 24th from 5-7 p.m., at McIntyre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s August 16th at 2 p.m., and The Regulator Bookshop August 27 at 7 p.m. Come out and meet our illustrious columnist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Festival Latest news from the N.C. Literary Festival is that local favorites Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle will be doing readings and discussions about the work that inspired the musical Good Ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Girls, at 8 p.m., Sept. 12. Matraca Berg, the Nashville musician who originated the idea for the musicaland her friend, Marshall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}