The Omnivorous Reader
The Great Escape Silver Alert is a bewitching joyride By Anne Blythe Lee Smith, a treasure of the North Carolina literary world, takes you on an unusual journey in her newest novel, Silver Alert. [...]
Simple Life
“The Birds of Paradise” The bad news Birds help a tired journalist find good news By Jim Dodson I hear a voice and look up. The face is much older, the voice deeper. But both are so familiar. [...]
Southwords
A Happy Discovery The Google machine reveals all By Tony Rothwell Our son Max, down from Washington, D.C., for a visit, pointed to a large portrait in a gorgeous gold frame hanging near the [...]
In the Spirit
Tips and Tricks Arsenal for your cocktail Rolodex By Tony Cross I love to learn new tricks when it comes to making drinks. Whether it’s from a cocktail book or a YouTube post by a bartender, some [...]
Tea Leaf Astrologer
Aries (March 21 – April 19) Life gives us what we need even if we don’t have the RAM to ask for it. In your case: lessons in patience. While you’ve been through the wringer this year in more ways [...]
April Bookshelf
FICTION Homecoming, by Kate Morton The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a sweeping saga with a thrilling mystery at its [...]
The Master of the Sandhills
Horton Smith and his abbreviated Pinehurst employment By Bill Case • Photographs from the Tufts Archives An above-the-fold headline in The Pinehurst Outlook on May 30, 1941, screamed, “HORTON [...]
Hometown
Hitting the Century Mark Thomas Wolfe was wrong, you can go home again By Bill Fields For those who haven’t viewed my academic transcripts, a confession: I was not a math all-star. In teacher [...]