HeyJaredBookmark with Don Noble
For over 30 years, English professor Don Noble engages authors in a thoughtful discussion about their lives, creative influences, and of course, their literary works. Produced by the Center for Public Television & Radio at the University of Alabama.
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Bookmark with Don Noble: Tom Rickman (2010) (opens the original)
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Tom Rickman built a long and respected career as a screenwriter, playwright, and director, bringing carefully shaped characters and deeply human stories to both film and television. He is best known for writing the screenplay for Coal Miner's Daughter , the acclaimed 1980 film about the life of country music legend Loretta Lynn, and for the made-for-television adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie . In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble , Don Noble speaks with Tom Rickman before a live audienc
Bookmark with Don Noble: Tito Perdue (2009) (opens the original)
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Tito Perdue is a Southern novelist known for fierce satire, idiosyncratic prose, and a deep suspicion of modern life. Several of his novels feature Leland "Lee" Pefley, Perdue's cantankerous alter ego — a learned, combative, and often comic figure who looks upon the late 20th century with very little affection. In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble , Don Noble speaks with Tito Perdue at the James Raymer House in Northport, Alabama. Their conversation explores Perdue's fiction, the creation
Bookmark with Don Noble: Stewart O'Nan (2012) (opens the original)
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Stewart O'Nan is a successful and prolific writer of fiction whose novels often find drama, tenderness, and consequence in the lives of ordinary people. Before turning fully to writing, O'Nan studied aerospace engineering at Boston University and worked as a test engineer for Grumman Aerospace, later earning an MFA in fiction from Cornell University. In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble , Don Noble speaks with Stewart O'Nan in the studio at Reese Phifer Hall on the campus of The University
Bookmark with Don Noble: Roger Rosenblatt (2003) (opens the original)
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Roger Rosenblatt has spent decades writing with clarity, wit, and moral urgency about American life, politics, family, war, aging, grief, patriotism, and the human condition. Familiar to many public television viewers as a frequent essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , Rosenblatt has also written for Time , The Washington Post , The New Republic , and other major publications. In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble , Don Noble speaks with Roger Rosenblatt at Southern Voices , the annua
Bookmark with Don Noble: Roger Reid (2009) (opens the original)
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Roger Reid has spent years helping Alabama audiences better understand the natural world as a writer, director, and producer for the award-winning public television series Discovering Alabama . In his young-adult novels Longleaf and Space , Reid brings that same love of science, nature, and discovery to fiction, combining adventure storytelling with factual information about Alabama's forests, wildlife, astronomy, and space program. In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble , Don Noble speaks w
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