The Weather Up Here:: RP: IN MEMORIUM: Philip Gerard Joins Randall Kenan and Tennessee Williams in "Literary Heaven" -- ALL Dear Friends of Mine / My Letter to BOTH Biden and Putin -- that BOTH Sent Received Receipts For!!!:

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Philip Gerard reading from his "novel" Cape Fear Rising at the Hannah Block Community Center in Wilmington on April 29, 2019 -- to CELEBRATE its TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE that day.

>>> Stanley Winborne III -- forget election results -- I got the VICTORY of DISCLOSURE :

Rahm sent his receipt -- now SCOTUS, Biden, and on down, YOURS:

Rahm:

It's happened -- my by far, GREATEST pièce de ré·sis·tance!!!

I've gotten so many THANKS from many in the Press -- from Ali Velshi of MSNBC to the New York Times -- and even from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema!!!:

At least I've moved beyond "COCKS" as a theme:

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Scott

I spoke with Philip Gerard for several minutes before he gave his talk, and he said I had FAR MORE and BETTER STORIES TO TELL than he had ever told!!!

He also said that EVERYTHING in Cape Fear Rising was FACT -- but he called it a NOVEL -- because he necessarily had to make up some dialogue.

A native of Delaware and graduate of the University of Delaware with a BA in English and Anthropology, Philip Gerard is the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina. His novel Cape Fear Rising, a fictional account of the Wilmington (NC) white supremacist Coup of 1898, was reissued in a special 25th anniversary edition with a foreword by Randall Kenan and an author’s afterword that addresses both the process of writing the novel and the backlash that followed its original publication.

His essay collection, The Patron Saint of Dreams, was awarded the 2012 North American Gold Medal for Essay and Creative Nonfiction by the Independent Publisher (“Ippy”). He has also written eleven documentary television scripts, scores of radio essays, several magazine series, and an award-winning radio drama.

He has appeared on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, CNN, and C-SPAN, and was a regular commentator on the History Channel.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Civil War, Emancipation, & Reconstruction History Center and teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, where he founded the MFA Program. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife, Jill, with whom he co-edits Chautauqua, the literary journal of Chautauqua Institution, NY.

In 2019, he received the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor.

https://www.philipgerard.com/

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