The writer Reynolds Price has spent almost all his life close to home in North Carolina. So the characters, the land, the light and the smells of the land are very much a part of his work…his vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.
There are very few forms this writer hasn’t explored; he’s a novelist, a poet and playwright, a professor and simply one of this country’s finest storytellers.
Since the publication of his first book, “A Long and Happy Life,” some 43 years back, his subject matter has ranged from the lives of North Carolina families, to the life of Jesus, to an unflinching memoir of his encounter with cancer when it seemed very much like his own life wasn’t going to be either long — or happy.
His new novel, “The Good Priest’s Son,” talks again of home of life and loss in the days after 9/11.
Guests:
Reynolds Price, writer and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. His new novel is “The Good Priest’s Son.”