Category Archives: Gurganus, Allan
Brave New Worlds Part 2
“Transgenic medicine is on the cutting edge of scientific research and practice, but it is also highly controversial. (A transgenic organ is a pig liver laced with human genes that functions like a dialysis machine for human patients.) Jeffrey Platt and Jeremy … Continue reading
Brave New Worlds Part 1
“Transgenic medicine is on the cutting edge of scientific research and practice, but it is also highly controversial. (A transgenic organ is a pig liver laced with human genes that functions like a dialysis machine for human patients.) Jeffrey Platt … Continue reading
New Southerners Part 1
PEN Syndicated Fiction prizewinner Allan Gurganus, author of Olest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and White People, initiates a 13-part series of readings and conversations featuring contemporary Southern writers. 682 – New Southerners Part 1
Storytellers and Poets
Allan Gurganus and Robert Gingher discuss contemporary short fiction in America. Robert Gingher’s collection of stories of North Carolina writers, The Rough Road Home, will be published in November. Li-Young Lee and Jim Wayne Miller discuss American poetry in the … Continue reading
Old Tech and New; Storytellers and Poets
Henry Binford discusses the culrural significance of ice cream in modern America. George Houston discusses telling time in ancient Roman culture.; Allan Gurganus and Robert Gingher discuss contemporary short fiction in America. Robert Gingher’s collection of stories of North Carolina … Continue reading
White People
Allan Gurganus discusses his recent collection of stories, White People (Alfred A. Knopf). 574 – White People