Bookmark with Don Noble

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For over 30 years, English professor Don Noble engages authors in a thoughtful discussion about their lives, creative influences, and of course, their literary works. Produced by the Center for Public Television & Radio at the University of Alabama.

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    Bookmark with Don Noble: David Guterson (2004)

    In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, novelist David Guterson joins Don Noble at Writing Today, Birmingham-Southern College's annual conference for readers and writers, for a conversation about fiction, place, and the Pacific Northwest landscapes that shape his work. Best known for his bestselling novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Guterson has built a literary career rooted in Washington state, with novels including East of the Mountains and Our Lady of the Forest.

    27 min

  2. 4d ago

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Beth Ann Fennelly (2008)

    In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, poet and writer Beth Ann Fennelly talks with Don Noble at the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. A native of the Chicago suburbs who has become as rooted as kudzu in the American South, Fennelly brings humor, insight, and lyric intelligence to a conversation about poetry, place, family, and the writer's life. Fennelly, who served as Mississippi Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2021, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and is the author of poetry, nonfiction, and micro-memoir, including Open House, Tender Hooks, Unmentionables, and Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.

    26 min

  3. 6d ago

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Andrew Hudgins (2001)

    In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, acclaimed poet Andrew Hudgins joins Don Noble for a thoughtful conversation about poetry, storytelling, memory, and the experiences that shape a writer's voice. Hudgins reflects on his Southern background, the craft of writing, and the ways poetry can explore family, faith, history, humor, and the darker corners of human experience.

    26 min

  4. 09/19/2025

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Lee Smith (2014)

    Don is joined by author Lee Smith to discuss her new novel set in Asheville, NC - Guests On Earth, which features Alabama native Zelda Fitzgerald. Don spoke with Lee in the Alabama Public Television studios in Montgomery, AL.

    27 min

  5. 09/12/2025

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Tom Franklin (2008)

    Don is joined by author Tom Franklin about his works "Hell at the Breech" and "Poachers" at the University of Mississippi.

    29 min

  6. 09/09/2025

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Michelle Richmond (2009)

    Don visits with author Michelle Richmond to talk about her novels "The Year of Fog" and "No One You Know" at Rock Point Books in Chattanooga, TN.

    26 min

  7. 09/05/2025

    Bookmark with Don Noble: Sena Jeter Naslund (2013)

    After several volumes of fiction, Sena Jeter Naslund had her first great success with Ahab's Wife. Since then she has published Four Spirits, Adam and Eve, and Abundance. The latter focuses on the life of Marie Antoinette. Her new novel, The Fountain of St. James Court explores the lives of both the real life artist who painted the French queen and a fictional writer who writes her novel telling the painter's story.

    24 min

  8. 09/02/2025

    Bookmark with Don Noble: T.K. Thorne (2021)

    Retired Birmingham police captain and birmingham historian, Thorne's most recent book is Behind The Magic Curtain - secrets, spies and unsung white allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights days.  Don spoke to T.K. Thorne in the Digital Media Center, on campus at the University of Alabama.

    29 min
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For over 30 years, English professor Don Noble engages authors in a thoughtful discussion about their lives, creative influences, and of course, their literary works. Produced by the Center for Public Television & Radio at the University of Alabama.

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  • Creator
    Alabama Public Radio
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © University of Alabama 2021
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