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Christopher L. Nelson
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Author of WHERE YOU ARE FROM, available now from Redhawk Publications.

Teacher, writer, WNC Native with a healthy hatred of fascism.

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Join me, Rhonda Browning White, and Redhawk Publications' acquisitions editor Patty Thompson next Tuesday @ 7:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Cultural Center!

We'll talk writing, Appalachia, North Carolina writ large, and a whole raft of other nonsense. I hope to see you there!

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June 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Shameless plug coming: I am also an author, and my collection WHERE YOU ARE FROM is coming out this month!

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February 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Day 19: Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD
January 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Day 19: Jeffery Reiman's THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET PRISON
December 31, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Day 18: Ron Rash's EUREKA MILL
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Day 17: Karl Popper's THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
December 27, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Day 16: Ernest Hemingway THE SUN ALSO RISES
December 26, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Day 15: Jim Wayne Miller's BRIER, HIS BOOK
December 25, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Day 14: Jeff Sharlet's THE UNDERTOW
December 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Day 13: Robert Paxton's THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM
December 23, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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Day 12: Irving Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING
December 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Day 12: Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
December 21, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Day 11: F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY
December 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Day 10: Larry Brown's JOE
December 19, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Day 9: Lorrie Moore's BIRDS OF AMERICA
December 17, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Day 9: Chris Hedges' WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING
December 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Day 8: Christopher Browning's ORDINARY MEN
December 15, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Day 7: Cormac McCarthy's SUTTREE
December 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Day 6: Jill McCorkle's FINAL VINYL DAYS
December 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Day 5: James Baldwin's ANOTHER COUNTRY
December 12, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Day 4: William Faulkner's ABSALOM, ABSALOM
December 11, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Day 3: Howard Zinn's A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Day 2: Amy Hempel's REASONS TO LIVE
December 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Day 1: Nelson Algren's NONCONFORMITY
December 9, 2024 at 4:02 AM