Ed Southern reads from Parlous Angels: Stories

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