Artwork and Craft: Thirty Years on the Literary Beat

Artwork and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Invoice Thompson’s three many years protecting writers and writing as e-book evaluate editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Submit and Courier. Starting with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this assortment is a compendium of interviews that includes among the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and overseas, together with Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, in addition to many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters starting from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and journey writing to crime fiction and Civil Warfare historical past, Artwork and Craft additionally features a sampling of Thompson’s evaluations.

That includes: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook dinner, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe