Greensboro, NC, October 2019 ~ Billy Baites’s stories are so full of live-out-loud personalities, it’s hard to believe they are nonfiction. In true Southern storytelling tradition, Baites’s colorful cast of characters are his pied pipers, leading the reader through childhood experiences into adulthood, with pitch-perfect “you can’t make this up” brand of humor. Chicago Quarterly […]
Read More …Excerpt from Tar Heel Sissy: One Saturday morning we were in Bi-Rite and I passed by the toys and noticed a pair of plastic high heels in a cellophane package hanging there. It was in a “play” section for little girls. There were such delights as a plastic tiara, play make-up kits, plastic earrings and […]
Read More …I’m delighted to be on my way to California for the release of Catamaran Literary Reader’s winter edition, celebrating with a February 2 release party in Santa Cruz! Catamaran will publish Daddy Don’t Go, my nonfiction tale of Southern traditions that help the nearly departed become the dearly departed.
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