Now a retired English professor at The University of Alabama, Dr. Noble's specialties are Southern and American literature. He also hosts Bookmark on Alabama Public Television.
Don Noble's reviews can be heard most Mondays at 7:45am and 4:44pm. and have been made possible in part through grants from the Alabama State Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the support of The University of Alabama, and from the generous support from our listeners. Thank you!
To listen to the audio version of Dr. Noble's reviews, just click on the book title to be taken to the full page. Audio is found either at the very beginning of the transcript or at the bottom of the page.
Dr. Noble's Book Reviews are made possible in part with a grant from The Alabama State Council on the Arts,
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It's time for another book review by Don Noble. This week, Don reviews "The Kiss Curse: A Novel" by Erin Stirling. -
It's time for another book review by Don Noble. This week, Don reviews "Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays" by Helen Macdonald. -
It's time for another book review by Don Noble. This week, Don reviews "The Lion and the Fox" written by Alexander rose. -
This week, Don reviews "This Ditch-Walking Love" stories by James Braziel. -
Sean Dietrich, “Sean of the South,” has become a very popular author/entertainer and blogger. -
Haines Takes Her Crew To the Gulf Coast for Christmas -
Historian Tells of Long Friendship with State’s Most Famous Author -
In 1919 Sherwood Anderson published his collection of loosely connected stories “Winesburg, Ohio” and it became, almost instantly, an American classic. Anderson wrote 22 short stories, each about a citizen of his fictional Winesburg. -
In 2018, middle-aged mid-list novelist Andrew Sean Greer published “Less,” his sixth book, featuring Arthur Less, a middle-aged mid-list novelist whose latest manuscript has just been turned down by his publisher and whose ex-boyfriend, Freddy, has announced his marriage to another. -
Keith Thomson of Birmingham knows pirates, and after reading this nonfiction historical account of a major pirate expedition in Central America in the seventeenth century, you will, too.
