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Current Broadcast Schedule
See the best and brightest southern scribes to hit the state on the small screen with North Carolina Bookwatch. Host D.G. Martin sheds light on the works, their lives, and the indelible imprint of North Carolina on these acclaimed authors. Heat up your 2012 reading list with North Carolina Bookwatch's 15th season! Here is the most recent schedule update:

15th Season Premiere!
July 6th & 8th
Ron Rash: The Cove

July 13th & 15th
Margaret Maron: Three-Day Town

July 20th & 22nd
Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

July 27th & 29th
Ann Ross: Miss Julia to the Rescue

August 3rd & 5th
Wiley Cash: A Land More Kind Than Home

August 10th & 12th
Susan Woodring: Goliath

August 17th and 19th
Jay Leutze: Stand Up that Mountain

August 24th and 26th
Sarah Shaber: Louise's Gamble

August 31 & September 2nd
Sandra A. Gutierrez: The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South

September 7th
Bob Garner: Bob Garner's Book of Barbecue: North Carolina's Favorite Food

September 14th
Sharon Draper: Out of My Mind

September 21st & 23rd
Nancy Collins: Left Hand Magic

September 28th & 30th
Bethany Bradsher: The Classic: How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big Time Basketball to the South

October 5th & 7th
Judy Goldman: Losing My Sister

October 19th & 21st
Jon Buchan: Code of the Forest

October 26th & 28th
Walter Bennet: Leaving Tuscaloosa

November 2nd & 4th
Heather A. Williams: Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

November 9th & 11th
John J. Sullivan: Pulphead: Essays

November 16th & 18th
Diane Chamberlain: The Good Father

November 23th & 25th
David Rowell: A Train of Small Mercies

November 30th
Jill McCorkle and Lee Smith: A Fund Raising Special!

December 7th
Terry Roberts: A Short Time to Stay Here

December 14th & 16th
Woody Durham:  Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice

December 21st & 23rd
Erik Lars Myers: North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries

December 28th & 30th
Kevin Duffus: War Zone--World War II off the North Carolina Coast

January 6th & 10th
David Cecelski: The Fire of Freedom

January 13th & 17th
Bland Simpson: Two Captains from Carolina

January 20th & 24th
Emily Colin: The Memory Thief

January 27th & 31st
Sheila Turnage: Three Times Lucky

February 3rd & 7th
Tim Gautreaux: The Missing

February 10th & 14th
James Dodson: American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and the Modern Age of Golf

February 17th & 21st
Ping Fu: Bend not Break

March 31 & April 4th
Jill McCorkle: Life after Life

April 7th & 11th
Pam Durban: The Tree of Forgetfulness

April 14th & 18th
Stanley Riggs: The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

April 21st & 25th
Vicki Lane: Under the Skin

April 28th & May 2nd
Georgann Eubanks: Literary Trails - East

May 5th & 9th
Nortin Hadler: The Citizen Patient

May 12th & 16th
Daniel Wallace: The Kings and Queens of Roam

May 19th & 23rd
Lee Craig: Josephus Daniels

May 26th & 30th
William Chafe:  Bill and Hillary

June 6th
*Heidi Durrow: The Girl Who Feel From The Sky (2010)

June 13th
*Jennifer Thompson Cannino & Ronald Cotton - Pickin Cotton (2010)

June 16th
*Charles Frasier: Nightwoods (2011)

June 23rd
*Anna Jean Mayhew: The Dry Grass Of August (2010)

June 30th & July 4th
*Charlene Regester: African American Actresses:1 (2010)

July 7th & 11th
*Ron Rash: The Cove (2012)

July 14th & 18th
*Margaret Maron: Three Day Town (2012)

July 21st & 25th
*Ben Fountain:  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012)

July 28th & August 1st
*John Hope Franklin: Mirror to America (2006)

August 4th & 8th
*Ann Ross: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (2012)

August 11th & 15th
*Wiley Cash: A Land More Kind Than Home (2012)

August 18th & 22nd
*Susan Woodring: Goliath (2012)

August 25th & 29th
*Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational (2009)