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Episode 7: Show Notes
At Home With Novelist Allan Gurganus
The author on his front porch. Photo by Tom Rankin
Notes on Rescue, Survival & Renovation
Novelist Allan Gurganus tells all…about his beloved home, Sunnyside in Small Town, North Carolina. He and Sunnyside have been together for decades and like most long marriages, it’s had its up and its downs, its joys and sorrows. A celebrated storyteller, Allan reads from his essay, “Old Houses & Young Men” (featured in Eno Publishers’s 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Small Southern Town in Prose and Poetry) and talks about rescuing and restoring an old house and making it his own.
Bio note—Novelist Allan Gurganus has been delighting reading audiences of decades. His books include The Practical Heart, Plays Well With Others, Local Souls, White People, and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, which has been adapted to bother stage and screen. Many of his short stories have been published in The New Yorker. He recently published The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus and is at work on a new novel, The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church. Allan has received numerous accolades and awards including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Southern Book Prize. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and adaptations of his work have earned four Emmys.