Bookmark with Don Noble

Author Eugene Walter visits with Don Noble to talk about his mythical Mobile.

Philip Beidler is Margaret and William Going Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he has taught American literature since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1974. His most recent book—the subject of his discussion here with Don Noble—is The Island Called Paradise: Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts. His new book, forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press, is entitled Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination.

Author Rick Bragg joins Don to talk about his memoir All Over But The Shoutin.

Wayne Flynt sits down with Don Noble to discuss his new book, Mockingbird Songs - My Friendship with Harper Lee. 

Edward O. Wilson, a leading advocate of global conservation, is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. His groundbreaking research, original thinking, and scientific and popular writing have contributed to change the way humans think of nature. He has received many of the world's leading prizes for his research in science, his environmental activism, and his writing. We spoke with Wilson, who currently is a research professor and museum curator at Harvard University, about his latest book, The Diversity of Life, that soon will be available in 14 languages around the world.

Author Christopher McIlwain stops by Bookmark to discuss his historical books on Alabama and the Civil War.

Don Noble is joined by Joe Formichella and Suzanne Hudson to discuss their new novels, The Shoe Burning, All The Way To Memphis, and Waffle House Rules. 

Silas House talks with Don Noble about his career.

Former University of Alabama student Gay Talese sits to talk with Don about his writing career.

Don talks with Alex George about his new novel, Setting Free The Kites.

Daniel Wallace drops by to talk with Don about his new children's book, The Cat's Pajamas, which he both wrote and illustrated.

Don visits with writer Mark Powell, author of five novels, this first three set in Appalachia, and the newest focus on American culture, drone warfare and extreme interrogation. 

Valerie Boyd is author of the award-winning Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, which was hailed by Alice Walker as “magnificent” and “extraordinary”; by the Boston Globe as “elegant and exhilarating”; and by the Denver Post as “a rich, rich read.” Boyd is currently curating and editing a collection of Alice Walker's personal journals, which span more than 50 years. Simon & Schuster/37 Ink will publish Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker in 2017. Boyd is also a journalism professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Georgia, where she directs the new low-residency MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction.

Twenty years later, the author of Salvation on Sand Mountain joins Don again to talk about his new book, "Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World"

Dana Gynther was born in St Louis and, at the age of ten, moved to Auburn, Alabama. She attended the University of Alabama, majoring in Political Science, and moved to France after receiving her BA. When she returned to the States a year and a half later, she went back to UA and received an MA in French Literature. In 1994, she and her French-speaking Spanish husband moved to his hometown, Valencia (Spain), where they work as teachers and translators and enjoy spending time with their two daughters. "Crossing on the Paris," her debut novel, explored the lives of three women as they made the voyage across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. It was an Indie Next Pick and B&N Hot Pick for November 2012 and Dana was chosen as a Target Emerging Author. Her most recent novel, "The Woman in the Photograph," to be released in August 2015, is a novelized account of the relationship between the two photographers, Lee Miller and Man Ray in Paris in the early 1930s.

Don Noble interviews both Pat Conroy and Katherine Clark, on campus at the University of Alabama. 

Winston Groom visits with Don Noble to discuss his non-fiction book The Aviators.

Don Noble interviews author John Sledge about his Civil War historical non-fiction These Rugged Days.

Don interviews Alexander McCall Smith, author of the wildly popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Don talks with author Michael Knight about his new book of short stories: Eveningland. This episode was shot at the Alabama Writer's Symposium.

A 2000 interview with the author of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” “A Gathering of Old Men,” and “A Lesson Before Dying,” tells why he sets his fiction in the Louisiana of his childhood.

Don sits down with author Charlie Lovett to talk about his new novel "The Lost Book of the Grail"

Author John Berendt joins Don Noble to talk about his novel Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil.

Don Noble is joined by Patti Callahan, author of the new novel Becoming Mrs. Lewis.

Don Noble interviews author Taylor Branch about his 20 year history project on Civil Rights to an end with his third and final volume of the King years with "At Canaan's Edge"

Don visits with journalist and author Gay Talese, about his new book The Silent Season of a Hero.

Cason Award Winner Dr. Trudier Harris joins Don to talk about her memoir Summer Snow, about growing up in Tuscaloosa's West End.

Jennifer Horne and Wendy Reed join Don Noble to talk about their essay collections on spirituality:  Circling Faith and All Out Of Faith.

Novelist Christina Baker Kline joins Don Noble to talk about her novels Oprhan Train and A Piece of the World.

Don sits down with renowned biologist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward O. Wilson to talk about his new books, biology and saving the planet.

William Styron, author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice, speaks with Don Noble in 2003.

This week Don sits down with Clarence Cason Award winner Hardy Jackson to talk about his career, the Gulf Coast, and Alabama's waterways.

Don visits with author and poet Darnell Arnout, to talk about his novel Sufficient Grace and his two books of poetry, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon.

Don Noble interviews Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, in 2001.

Don sits down with Earl Tilford, military historian, talking about his non-fiction work "Turning the Tide" about the history of Civil Rights on campus at the University of Alabama.  

Prolific author James Haskins joins Don for an interview on Bookmark.

Don is joined by author MIchelle Richmond, the 2018 Truman Capote Prize winner, to talk about her new thrilled The Marriage Pact.

Don welcomes David Joy to the Alabama Booksmith to talk about his new novel, The Weight Of This World.

Don is joined by Winston Groom, to discuss his historical works - Patriotic Fire, A Storm in Flanders and 1942. 

Don is joined by South Carolina writer George Singleton.

Don is joined by Anne Rivers Siddon to talk about her novel Fault Lines.

Don Noble is joined by columnist, novelist and podcast host Sean Dietrich, or as he know from his blog "Sean of the South"

Accomplished musician and fiction writer Clyde Edgerton visits with Don to talk about his newest novel Lunch at the Piccadilly.

William Cobb visits with Don to talk about his memoir, Captain Billy's Troopers. The book traces Cobb's early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating condition normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).

Don speaks with Clarence Cason Award winner Patricia Foster about her new book "Girl From Soldier Creek"

Long-time journalist, biographer and historian Peter Golding joins Don Noble to talk about his new novels "Comeback Love" and "Whereever There Is Light."

Legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury joins Don Noble on Bookmark.

Don sits down with Ed Bridges, Director Emeritus of the Alabama Department of Archives and History to talk about his new book "Alabama: The Making of an American State"

University of Alabama graduate Caleb Johnson joins Don Noble to discuss his first novel, Tree Borne.

Don is joined by Daniel Wallace, Alabama author best know for his novel Big Fish.

Don is joined by James McBride, author of The Color of Water, Kill 'Em And Leave, and The Good Lord Bird. This interview took place at the Alabama Booksmith.