Walking Through Writing with North Carolina Hall of Fame Storyteller, Clyde Edgerton

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In this episode 214, guest hosted by award-winning novelist and teacher, George Hovis, we visit with Clyde Edgerton, the well-known and well-loved North Carolina author of ten novels, a book of advice, a memoir, short stories, and essays.

As well as being a New York Times bestselling author and member of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, among other prestigious writing awards, he is an accomplished artist, musician, pilot, and teacher of creative writing. And even more than that, he spins a good yarn and knows how to have a good laugh.

He says that funny and tragic family stories on both sides of his family, but especially on his mother’s, were gifts to his profession as a fiction writer—and thus helped him make a living on earth, a living that he has thus far enjoyed immensely. Today, we amble among the writings and musings of one of North Carolina’s literary treasures, and have a laugh along the way.

 

Connect With the Author

Website

Books

  • Raney (1985)
  • Walking Across Egypt (1987)
  • The Floatplane Notebooks (1988)
  • Killer Diller (1991)
  • In Memory of Junior (1992)
  • Redeye (1995)
  • Where Trouble Sleeps (1997)
  • Lunch at the Piccadilly (2003)
  • Solo: My Adventure in the Air (2005; non-fiction memoir of his fighter pilot career)
  • The Bible Salesman (2008)
  • The Night Train (2011)
  • Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers: Advice to Dads of All Ages (2013)

Art

About Clyde Edgerton-Short Version:

Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a book of advice, a memoir, short stories, and essays. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife, Kristina, and their children.

Awards

On Teaching

Clyde Edgerton’s  definition of teaching is this: “Teaching is the act of inducing students to behave in ways assumed to lead to learning.”

About Clyde Edgerton-Long Version:

Clyde Edgerton, raised in the community of Bethesda, near Durham, NC, has published ten novels, a book of advice (Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers) and a memoir (Solo, My Adventures in the Air).

The Night Train, his tenth novel, was published by Little, Brown in 2011 and received multiple starred reviews. Three of his novels have been made into movies: Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Killer Diller. The latter two are now available on DVD.

Stage adaptations have been made from Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, Where Trouble Sleeps, Lunch at the Piccadilly, and The Bible Salesman.

Edgerton’s short stories and essays have been published in New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories, Southern Review, Oxford American, Garden & Gun and other publications.

Edgerton is a musician and has performed with musicians including Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Jack King, and Matt Kendrick. Audio albums and CDs on which he has performed include most recently The Bible Salesman, music and story, with Mike Craver.

Edgerton is the Thomas S. Kenan III professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife, Kristina, and their children.

About Guest Host George Hovis

Guest host George Hovis is a writer, teacher and novelist. His debut novel, The Skin Artist, was nominated for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Set in Charlotte’s gothic underbelly and in Hovis’s native Gaston County, The Skin Artist tells a story of tattoo magic, obsession, and failed upward mobility.

A Pushcart Prize nominee, and former president of the Thomas Wolfe Society, George’s stories and essays have appeared widely. He is also the author of Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction.

George is currently Professor of English at SUNY Oneonta in Upstate New York.

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