July 28, 2020

Vernon Glenn Turns a Southern Small Town Night Upside Down in “Friday Calls”

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In this episode 126, we visit with Vernon Glenn, author of “Friday Calls: A Southern Novel,” which is set in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, mostly on a sinful Friday night.

Kirkus Reviews describes Glenn’s prose as “full of color and motion,” and says that “Friday Calls is a lyrical Southern tale of rippling effects.” When things go wrong on a Friday night on both sides of the tracks and on the tracks themselves, lives change quickly and the law comes to collect.

Lawyer Edward F. V. Terrell weaves his way amongst the chaos. He represents a white woman killed by a reckless but rich white man and defends a poor black man on trial for killing another black man in a drink house. The odds of prevailing require a cool head and a clever strategy.

Vernon starts the show with a reading a section of the book, where a train crash changes many lives and starts a story whose ending is uncertain to say the least.

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About the Author

A native Tar Heel, author Vernon Glenn was educated in the classroom at Choate, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University School of Law, and in the real world, by digging deep ditches, running a jackhammer, hauling block and bricks every summer to the tune of starting at 60 cents an hour and practicing law as a litigator for more than 40 years. He says he adores the courtroom, as well as Southern people and stories.

Glenn has scouted and handicapped football and basketball games, testified before Congress, and traveled widely. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and keeps what he calls a perch in his hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Friday Calls, set in Winston-Salem, mostly on a Friday night, is his first novel.

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