A show about history, books, and current events.
Sounds like medicine that’s good for you.
Music by John Bartmann https://johnbartmann.com/
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A show about history, books, and current events.
Sounds like medicine that’s good for you.
Music by John Bartmann https://johnbartmann.com/
Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel ‘Searching For Jimmy Page’, from Livingston Press.
She is also the host of Rock is Lit: A Podcast About Rock Novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network.
Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as ‘North Carolina Literary Review’, ‘storySouth’, ‘Still: The Journal’, ‘Main Street Rag’, ‘Fiction Southeast’, ‘Riggwelter’, ‘Deep South Magazine’, ‘Eclectica’, ‘Litro’, ‘STORGY Magazine’, ‘Entropy’, and ‘Concho River Review’.
Her creative nonfiction essay “The Ballad of Evermore” was a finalist for the ‘Sequestrum’ 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by ‘Fiction Southeast’ for October 2020, and selected by the editors of the Best Small Fictions anthology series for inclusion in the 2021 edition.
She teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University, where she earned her BS and MA in English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. In addition to teaching, Christy serves as Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’. She is a former editor of #FridayFlash USA at ‘Litro’ magazine.
A native of eastern North Carolina, she now lives in the western part of the state on the outskirts of Asheville, near the Great Smoky Mountains.
Host of Rock is Lit podcast
Author of novel ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’
Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’
Website: www.christyalexanderhallberg.com
If you missed it, here’s my interview with the founder, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and the director, Seth Kotch, both historians at UNC Chapel Hill
I spoke with Dr. Emma Southon today on Southern Reckoning about her latest book, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. We also talked about true crime, writing history, and Hilary Matel’s influence on historical fiction.
Emma’s website is: https://www.emmasouthon.com