Years ago, at a Durham Bulls game, Clyde Edgerton told John Rosenthal about a man he’d seen that day whose jaw looked like it was swallowed up into his nose. “It was one of the weirdest looking men he ...

Early in Clyde Edgerton’s The Bible Salesman, Henry Dampier, the 20-year-old peddler in question, volunteers to bury the freshly dead cat of a potential customer. He reaches under the house and pulls ...

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Clyde Edgerton, mandolin in hand, took a seat on the stage of the packed auditorium in the Central Library Thursday and began entertaining the audience with a mix of Southern humor and music that has ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — On Tuesday, the New Hanover County School Board suspended Markley for five days, which will be served on five consecutive Wednesdays. Thursday we heard from the man who ...

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Beginning May 22, the Cumberland County Playhouse will present the heartwarming Southern comedy Walking Across Egypt, adapted by Catherine Bush from the beloved novel by Clyde Edgerton. Set in a small ...

Author and book reviewer Bob Cairns caught up with award-winning author and UNC Wilmington professor Clyde Edgerton to find out his favorite book. Here's what Edgerton had to say: “An older book I’d ...

Novelist Clyde Edgerton once told me that you could either be a little bit of a celebrity and a little bit of a writer, or a big celebrity and no writer at all. Well, let me tell you, I’ve never seen ...

WILMINGTON -- For nearly six years as New Hanover County Schools’ superintendent, Tim Markley did not bar someone from school grounds due to a concern about student information. Then, on May 10, the ...

Beginning Friday, May 22, the Cumberland County Playhouse presents the heartwarming Southern comedy “Walking Across Egypt”, ...