Forward Media

Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, about her dual life -- half in Italy, half in the Triangle; her past and future books; and the works of others she admires. www.FrancesMayesBooks.com
Dec 1, 2009

Sir Christopher Meyer, Ambassador to the U.S. from the United Kingdom during the run-up to the Iraq War, about the intersection of U.S. and U.K. policy and war aims. Meyer’s wife, Lady Catherine, and UNC-Chapel Hill professor Ted Leinbaugh, the host for the Meyers’s visit, join the discussion. Sir Christopher is the author of a new book, “Getting our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: The Inside Story of British Diplomacy.

”Art Chansky, author of “Light Blue Reign: How a City Slicker, a Quiet Kansan, and a Mountain Man Built College Basketball’s Longest-Lasting Dynasty,” about the new book and the important contributions and the interesting, intersecting lives of Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Roy Williams. http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101309aaa.html

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, about the new book and Ferris’s collection of the voices of Mississippi blues singers--written word, CD, and DVD. www.GiveMyPoorHeartEase.com http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1648

Sarah Schroth, the Nancy Hanks Senior Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, about Picasso and the Allure of Language the Nasher’s exhibit that examinesPablo Picasso’s lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work. Exhibit through January 3, 2010. More info at www.nasher.duke.edu/picasso

Ned Cline, author of The Walter Davis Story, One Man Who Made a Difference, about the new book and the man some say was the most important “behind the scenes” politician in recent North Carolina history.