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Thursday

02/18/10   7pm-8pm

Ed Southern reads
from Parlous Angels: Stories

Ed Southern was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and began making up characters and stories shortly after. Before he was 10
years old, his mother had decided that “either this child is going to be a
writer, or we’re going to have to spend a fortune on therapy for him.”  (Whether that was a valid either/or
proposition is still to be determined.) Southern’s previous work, all
nonfiction, includes The Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revolution
in the Carolinas, and Sports in the Carolinas. 
He lives in Winston-Salem, and is executive director of the North
Carolina Writers’ Network.

 “Ed Southern's
stories are about hard work and hard times and what is required of a boy to
become a man in such a place and time. They are also about class—that taboo
subject in America—and about anger, love, and yearning. Carefully written, with
the best dialogue I've read in years, these terrific and utterly original
stories are made to last—like a stone pathway or a brick wall.”

— Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill and The Last
Girls