HERE IS ONE FOR THE NOOKS

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993                   TAG: 9303120134
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
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HERE IS ONE FOR THE NOOKS
To ideas for the future of Western Virginia - from tourist mecca to back-office telecommunications center - add one more: setting it aside as writers preserve.
Just for fun, I tried limiting my reading to strictly local writers a month ago. I'm still reading.
Examples: "No Sacrifice Too Great," a biography by Emory's Richard Pfau of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss; "The Shakers Play Better in the Rain," Stan McCready's boyhood memories of Saltville; "Confessions of a Dark-Barker," Lowry Bowman's thoughtful and whimsical look at our life and times; Abingdon-based actress Cleo Holladay's funny "ABC's of Theatre Etiquette"; "Sole Survivor" by Blacksburg's Shane Hensley; "Yourowquains: The Story of Caty Sage" by Bill Bland of Grayson County; "A Calculated Risk" by Radford's Katherine Neville . . .
And that doesn't touch all the books of Sharyn McCrumb, Lee Smith, Richard Dillard, Paxton Davis, Roland Lazenby, Nikki Giovanni, Ed Falco; multiwriter collections like "Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler" from Blacksburg or "Stories from Sherwood Anderson Country" from Marion, and more. You could build a library of just our writers - which I seem to be doing.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB