Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers

Commendation Quotes: "Amazing Place" is an affirmation that in the last fifty years no state has produced more first-rate authors than North Carolina. That talent is on full display in this book, and thanks to Marianne Gingher's editorship this compilation becomes something more: a verbal trek across North Carolina, whose roadmap is our state's soul. Commendation Quotes: This collection is as good as any I ve ever read, and I have read a few. It's more than a compendium of the best writers North Carolina has to offer. Here are some of the best writers in America. Marianne Gingher has done a masterful job in bringing such a vast and awesome pack of talent together into a wickedly harmonious whole."

Contributor Bio:  Gingher, Marianne Marianne Gingher is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of Long Story Short, also published by University of North Carolina Press.