tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:19:06 +0000audiovideointerviewlecturesiTunesBragg (Rick)Wilson (Edward O.)author profilessymposiumAlabama Center for the BookAlabama Writers' Forumdigital projectsfestivalsAlabama Arts Radio SeriesBartram (William)First DraftHall (John C.)NPRNaslund (Sena Jeter)Trethewey (Natasha)conferencefeaturesonline booksAlabama Book FestivalAlabama Public TelevisionAtkins (Ace)Brown (Mary Ward)Ellison (Ralph)Gaillard (Frye)Gosse (Philip Henry)Hickam (Homer)Hitchcock (Bert)Huggins (Peter)Jackson (Joshilyn)Johnson (Rheta Grimsley)Keirstead (Christopher)Lee (Harper)Murray (Albert)MySpaceNewSouth BooksNordan (Lewis "Buddy")Southern Literary TrailTalese (Gay)Windham (Kathryn Tucker)Wolff (Tobias)York (Jake Adam)YouTubeessaygrant fundinglogopublicityreadingtourismtravelA Year of Alabama BooksAlabama Department of Archives and HistoryAlabama Reading AssociationAlabama State Council on the ArtsAuburn University LibrariesBailey (Douglas Fields)Baldwin (Joseph Glover)Beidler (Philip K.)Bell (Robert E.)Bethea (Jack)Blassingame (Wyatt)Bontemps (Arna)Carr (Archie)Christenberry (William)Coleman (Lonnie)Cornutt (Kirk)Cox (Dwayne)Davis (Rebecca Harding)Discover AuburnDorsey (Tim)Duncan (Ben)Earley (Tony)Encyclopedia of AlabamaFacebookFlagg (Fannie)Flynt (Wayne)Franklin (Tom)Gilman (Rebecca)Godwin (Gail)Grau (Shirley Ann)Green (John)Groom (Winston)Haines (Carolyn)Hamill (Susan Pace)Harjo (Joy)Harper Lee AwardHarris (George Washington)Howard (John)Hudgins (Andrew)Hurston (Zora Neale)Ingraham (J. H.)Johnston (Mary)King (Cassandra)King (Martin Luther Jr.)Kingsbury (Pam)Lanier (Sidney)Le Vert (Octavia Walton)Lewis (John)Library of CongressLytle (Andrew)Morris (Susana)Mullen (Gary)PBSPacker (Nancy Huddleston)Patten (Gwen)Patterson (Richard North)Percy (Walker)Perry (Phyllis Alesia)Pratt (Minnie Bruce)Pulitzer PrizeRisley (Eleanor de la Vergne)Rodgers (Catherine)Royall (Anne)Ryan (Abram J.)Ryan (James Emmett)Sanchez (Sonia)Searcy (Margaret Zehmer)Shields (Charles J.)Siddons (Anne Rivers)Smith (Lee)Sorensen (Virginia)Southern SpacesSouthern VoicesSplashcast™Sterne (Emma Gelders)T-shirtsTaliaferro (H. E.)Tarry (Ellen)Trehub (Aaron)TwitterWSFAWalker (Sue)Wallace (Daniel)Washington (Booker T.)Wiles (Deborah)Williams (Benjamin B.)Zazzle.combooklistscalendarnewsletterpostcardsquotationssupporthttp://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)Blogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-743968059248990012Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:04:00 +00002009-12-21T15:06:36.146-06:00author profilesHarris (George Washington)Rodgers (Catherine)Taliaferro (H. E.)Tarry (Ellen)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added four new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are novelist Catherine Rodgers, Old Southwest humorists H. E. Taliaferro and George http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/12/four-more-author-profiles-on-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-6079819464916538510Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:05:00 +00002009-12-12T15:07:41.997-06:00author profilesBethea (Jack)Blassingame (Wyatt)Carr (Archie)Gaillard (Frye)Haines (Carolyn)Sorensen (Virginia)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added six new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are novelist Jack Bethea, travel and nature writer Archie Carr, journalist and nonfiction http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-author-profiles-on-this-goodly-land.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-5310885438118840785Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:56:00 +00002009-11-29T10:00:16.639-06:00audioJohnson (Rheta Grimsley)NewSouth BooksNPROn November 29, 2009, Alabama author Rheta Grimsley Johnson's book Poor Man's Provence (NewSouthBooks) was reviewed by Debbie Elliott on NPR’s program Weekend Edition Sunday. In addition to the review, the Web site has an excerpt from the book. Listen to Debbie Elliott's review of Poor Man's Provence on NPR. Midge Coates, Project ManagerThis Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscapehttp://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/11/audio-rheta-grimsley-johnson-on-npr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-3174409571842222718Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:10:00 +00002009-11-14T11:20:57.423-06:00Alabama Writers' ForumessayFirst DraftHarjo (Joy)interviewPerry (Phyllis Alesia)The Fall '09 issue of First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum, is now available online in PDF format at the First Draft page of the AWF Web site. PDFs of earlier issues, from Summer '98 through Spring '09, are also available here. This issue features an interview with Muscogee poet Joy Harjo and an essay by Alabama author Phyllis Alesia Perry. First Draft also publishes articles http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-draft-spring-issue-now-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-1666414208789173131Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:43:00 +00002009-10-31T09:19:14.108-05:00Auburn University LibrariesDiscover AuburnGosse (Philip Henry)Mullen (Gary)videoOn October 4, 2007, Auburn University Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology professor Gary Mullen presented a lecture on Alabama author Philip Henry Gosse. This lecture was presented as part of the Discover Auburn series. Videos from this series are now available online as part of the Auburn University Digital Library.The Discover Auburn lecture series is presented jointly by the Auburn http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/10/video-philip-henry-gosse-in-alabama.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-7276424138301452730Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:21:00 +00002009-10-16T11:23:44.715-05:00Bell (Robert E.)Lytle (Andrew)Siddons (Anne Rivers)Smith (Lee)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added four new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are novelists Robert E. Bell, Andrew Lytle, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Lee Smith. Midge http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/10/four-more-author-profiles-on-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-1123065190846393389Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:37:00 +00002009-10-12T16:41:52.207-05:00We've added new photos to fifteen of our author profiles at This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape. Profiles with new photos include: Crime fiction writers Ace Atkins, Tim Dorsey, and Richard North Patterson; novelists Joe David Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mary Johnston, and Elise Sanguinetti; Harlem Renasissance writers Arna Bontemps and George Wylie Henderson; poets Sidney Lanier and http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-author-photos-on-this-goodly-land.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-7977219471691643332Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:43:00 +00002009-10-02T13:46:00.049-05:00author profilesBontemps (Arna)Davis (Rebecca Harding)Green (John)Huggins (Peter)Royall (Anne)Searcy (Margaret Zehmer)Sterne (Emma Gelders)Talese (Gay)Wiles (Deborah)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added nine new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are New Journalist Gay Talese, travel writer and Nineteenth Century journalist Anne Royall,http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/10/nine-new-author-profiles-on-this-goodly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-3145931363476682320Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:41:00 +00002009-10-02T13:47:56.689-05:00Atkins (Ace)author profilesBailey (Douglas Fields)Coleman (Lonnie)Dorsey (Tim)Ingraham (J. H.)Le Vert (Octavia Walton)Patterson (Richard North)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added seven new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are mystery writers Ace Atkins, Tim Dorsey, and Richard North Patterson; historical http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/09/seven-new-author-profiles-on-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-2204974249565520276Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:22:00 +00002009-10-02T13:47:32.513-05:00author profilesJohnston (Mary)Lanier (Sidney)Risley (Eleanor de la Vergne)Ryan (Abram J.)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added four new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.Our latest additions are historical novelist Mary Johnston, poets Sidney Lanier and Father Abram J. Ryan, and http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-author-profiles-on-this-goodly-land.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-5122797697919104400Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:06:00 +00002009-09-21T16:23:42.803-05:00Alabama Arts Radio SeriesaudioBragg (Rick)interviewWindham (Kathryn Tucker)Two Alabama authors were recently featured in separate broadcasts of the Alabama Arts Radio Series. In the July 5, 2009, program, Kathryn Tucker Windham was interviewed by Joey Brackner. Listen to Kathryn Tucker Windham on Alabama Arts Radio. In the September 27, 2009, program, Rick Bragg was interviewed by Al Head.Listen to Rick Bragg on Alabama Arts Radio. To stream, left-click on either "High http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/09/audio-interviews-with-kathryn-tucker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-7463516111886956235Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:24:00 +00002009-09-17T13:45:18.829-05:00audioHitchcock (Bert)interviewKeirstead (Christopher)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just uploaded two new audio podcasts to our Multimedia page.The two most recent programs in the series are titled "Autobiography and Memoir" and "Crime Fiction." Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Bert Hitchcock and Dr. Christopher Keirstead from the Auburn University Department ofhttp://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/09/audio-autobiography-and-memoir-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-5316647991960194886Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:00 +00002009-09-03T09:09:00.740-05:00audiointerviewNPRWilson (Edward O.)On September 1, 2009, Alabama author Edward O. Wilson was interviewed by computer game designer Will Wright on NPR’s program Morning Edition during the “Open Mic” segment. The two discussed the future of computer games in children's science education and his own introduction to science as a child. The Web page has two additional question/answer segments not included in the broadcast.Listen to "http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/09/audio-will-wright-interviews-edward-o.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-8306102964514747058Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:10:00 +00002009-07-21T09:23:12.147-05:00audioGosse (Philip Henry)iTunesreadingTrehub (Aaron)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added another new podcast to our "Multimedia" page.Mr. Aaron Trehub, Assistant Dean for Library Technology, Auburn University Libraries, reads a selection from Philip Henry Gosse's Letters from Alabama (U.S.): Chiefly about Natural History.Supplemental materials for this program are available at This Goodly Land's Web site and include an http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/07/audio-new-podcast-reading-from-gosses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-8036300283741011396Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:33:00 +00002009-06-02T11:48:00.286-05:00audiointerviewiTunesRyan (James Emmett)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added another new podcast to our "Multimedia" page.Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. James Emmett Ryan of the Auburn University Department of English about women's contributions to literary culture in Nineteenth Century America.Supplemental materials for this program are http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/06/audio-new-podcast-on-nineteenth-century.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-1120652194552178212Fri, 08 May 2009 14:42:00 +00002009-05-08T10:32:58.345-05:00MySpaceTwitterOur MySpace.com® page was originally created by a group of graduate students at Auburn University about a year ago. We have recently updated our page, installing some of the same features that appear on our Facebook Page (photos, videos, Zazzle store, and blog feed) and adding something new (Twitter feed). We have also switched to the new 2.0 profile layout, making these features a little easier http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-goodly-land-updates-our-page-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-9001848688689650160Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:21:00 +00002009-04-30T13:29:56.457-05:00audioHitchcock (Bert)interviewThis Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added another new podcast to our "Multimedia" page. (This podcast is also available via This Goodly Land at iTunes U.)Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Bert Hitchcock, Professor emeritus of the Auburn University Department of English about the historical novel.Supplemental http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/04/audio-another-new-podcast-historical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-8015118544520623362Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:32:00 +00002009-04-17T16:43:00.736-05:00audioBaldwin (Joseph Glover)Bartram (William)Cox (Dwayne)Hall (John C.)interviewlecturesreadingWilliams (Benjamin B.)This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added three new podcasts to our "Multimedia" page. (These podcasts are also available via This Goodly Land at iTunes U.)In "Old Southwest Humor," Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Benjamin B. Williams, Professor emeritus of the Auburn University Montgomery Department of English http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/04/audio-new-podcasts-from-this-goodly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-9068318390302284874Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:34:00 +00002009-04-09T10:40:27.671-05:00Alabama Arts Radio SeriesaudioBrown (Mary Ward)interviewKingsbury (Pam)The April 7 broadcast of the Alabama Arts Radio Series features Alabama author Mary Ward Brown. The program was recorded at the Lunch at the Library program of the Selma-Dallas County Public Library. Ms. Brown read from her new memoir, Fanning the Spark, and was interviewed by Pam Kingsbury of the University of North Alabama.Listen to Mary Ward Brown on Alabama Arts Radio program.To stream, http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/04/audio-mary-ward-brown-on-alabama-arts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-2741820889844892262Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:52:00 +00002009-04-08T11:12:45.781-05:00Alabama Book FestivalpublicityvideoWSFAThe Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities' own Maiben Beard was interviewed by WSFA 12 News's Tonya Terry on Talk with Tonya this past Monday (April 6) about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival (Saturday April 18, 9-5, Old Alabama Town, Montgomery).Watch WSFA's Talk with Tonya. Click on the icon (left-hand side) for the April 6 episode. Maiben's interview appears about 24 http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-maiben-beard-on-talk-with-tonya.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-895779616207094644Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:58:00 +00002009-04-06T10:19:21.584-05:00Alabama Department of Archives and HistorylecturesvideoThe Alabama Department of Archives and History has made videos of its "ArchiTreats: Food for Thought" lectures available online. This series features leading experts speaking on topics in Alabama history. ArchiTreats is sponsored by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and the Alabama Humanities Foundation.Watch videos from ArchiTreats: Food for Thought online. If you live or work in or near http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-architreats-at-adah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-7021153192915038391Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:09:00 +00002009-04-01T08:19:03.601-05:00Alabama Book FestivalAlabama Center for the BookAlabama Writers' ForumfestivalsThe Alabama Book Festival will take place on April 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the grounds of historic Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, Ala. The Festival is organized by the Alabama Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. More than fifty novelists, poets, artists, illustrators, http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/03/2009-alabama-book-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-6346990112867374747Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:36:00 +00002009-03-31T07:16:19.419-05:00Bragg (Rick)conferencefestivalsLee (Harper)symposiumWalker (Sue)Registration has begun for the 12th annual Alabama Writers Symposium to be held on April 30-May 2, 2009. Symposium events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House, and at the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Monroeville, Ala. This year's theme is "Mystery, Murder, Mayhem, & More."Participating writers and literary scholars include Nancyhttp://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/03/2009-alabama-writers-symposium-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-7773283012751600140Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:53:00 +00002009-03-30T10:44:15.956-05:00Brown (Mary Ward)festivalsGilman (Rebecca)The 2009 Montevallo Literary Festival will be held on April 16 and 17 at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Ala. Festival activities include readings, presentations, films, panels, workshops, and a performance of the Rebecca Gilman play, Boy Gets Girl.Participating authors include Daniel Anderson, Emma Bolden, Mary Ward Brown, Christopher Chambers, Rebecca Gilman, Hartford Gongaware, http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/03/2009-montevallo-literary-festival-april.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020776647338518680.post-3506738083175243074Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:02:00 +00002009-03-23T09:13:35.253-05:00Alabama Writers' ForumBragg (Rick)First DraftHarper Lee AwardThe Spring '09 issue of First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum, is now available online in PDF format at the First Draft page of the AWF Web site. PDFs of earlier issues, from Summer '98 through Fall '08, are also available here. This issue profiles Alabama author Rick Bragg, recipient of the 2009 Harper Lee Award. First Draft also publishes articles about Alabama literary events,http://alabamaliterarymap.blogspot.com/2009/03/first-draft-spring-issue-now-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (This Goodly Land)0