North Carolina’s Only Local Literary Television Series Returns
with Mrs. Darcy & The Blue-Eyed Stranger
Author Lee Smith Kicks Off the 13^th Season of
North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, September 10, at 9:30 PM

Each year, North Carolina authors publish hundreds of books of all types and for the past dozen seasons UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch has brought the best and brightest of these southern scribes to the small screen—shedding light on their works, their lives, and the indelible imprint that the state has left upon them.

And now, North Carolina Bookwatch books even more great writers than ever before when the popular series embarks on its all-new 13^th season, premiering Friday, September 10, at 9:30 PM, when celebrated novelist Lee Smith presents her latest collection of new and selected stories, Mrs. Darcy & The Blue-Eyed Stranger.

A recognized master of the short story, Lee Smith has been compared with such luminaries as Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. Smith is the author of fifteen previous books of fiction—three collections of short stories and a dozen novels. A New York Times bestselling author, she lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Lee Smith on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, September 10 PM, at 9:30 PM, only on UNC-TV!

During this season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests will also include: John Claude Bemis (The Nine Pound Hammer), Malinda Maynor Lowery(Lumbee Indians In The Jim Crow South), Nic Brown (Flood Markers), Michele Young-Stone (The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors), Andrew Park  (Between A Church And A Hard Place), Kathy Reichs (Spider Bones) and Leonard Rogoff (Down Home: Jewish Life In North Carolina).

“Looking over the impressive lineup of our state’s authors scheduled for the new season of North Carolina Bookwatch and thinking about the chance to visit with each of them, I can’t wait for it all to begin,” says North Carolina Bookwatch host, D.G. Martin.

For additional information about series guests and airdates, plus links to Bookwatch on Facebook, please visit: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

Funding for North Carolina Bookwatch is provided by UNC-TV members and by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Quail Ridge Books and Music and North Carolina Humanities Council.

North Carolina Bookwatch is part of UNC-TV’s ongoing commitment to produce programs for and about North Carolina. UNC-TV is the statewide 11-station broadcast network of the University of North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

For more information about North Carolina Bookwatch and UNC-TV’s other original productions, please visit our website at www.unctv.org.