{"product_id":"art-and-craft-bill-thompson-9781611174410","title":"Art and Craft: Thirty Years on the Literary Beat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compendium of profiles, interviews, and reviews published by the South Carolina book review editor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt and Craft\u003c\/i\u003e presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's \u003ci\u003ePost and Courier.\u003c\/i\u003e Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, \u003ci\u003eArt and Craft\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA foreword is written by South Carolina novelist Josephine Humphreys, who is author of \u003ci\u003eDreams of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1985 Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction), \u003ci\u003eRich in Love\u003c\/i\u003e (made into a major motion picture), \u003ci\u003eThe Fireman's Fair, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNowhere Else on Earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611174414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611174410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bill Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068829561087,"sku":"9781611174410","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d27a4d1-6bcd-48fb-a3f1-098b822d32f3.jpg?v=1685421237","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-and-craft-bill-thompson-9781611174410","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}