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Many a great tune has been inspired by a more long-form literary work—Zeppelin’s “Ramble On,” “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, and Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” to name just a few. Now, North Carolina’s Steep Canyon Rangers are the latest to add their names to that list with “Recommend Me,” their latest single from an upcoming album entitled Morning Shift.

If you listen to the Steep Canyon Rangers’ new album the way it’s meant to be listened to, you will find the song “Recommend Me” at the very end, waiting to blow you away.

If you listen to the Steep Canyon Rangers’ new album the way it’s meant to be listened to, you will find the song “Recommend Me” at the very end, waiting to blow you away.

If you listen to the Steep Canyon Rangers’ new album the way it’s meant to be listened to, you will find the song “Recommend Me” at the very end, waiting to blow you away.

New York Times bestselling novelist Wiley Cash will read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Bevens Music Room, Brown Chapel, Lyon College in Batesville.

After two years being held as an online celebration, Western Carolina University’s “Spring Literary Festival” returns to the Cullowhee campus March 14...

The library story times are open for anyone who would like to come in and join us. Masks are recommended if you have not been vaccinated. Mondays at 4 p.m.

New books available at the Mount Airy Public Library…

My picks in the poll were “Charlotte’s Web,” “Catch-22” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” books which affected me profoundly at the time I read them, and which have shaped my perception of the world since.

By D.G. Martin The good news is that three wonderful books about North Carolina will be published soon. The bad news is we must wait a few months to buy them. In the meantime, here is what I know about each of them. Wiley Cash’s new novel “When Ghosts Come Home” comes out in September. Cash may be North Carolina’s most promising and popular young fiction writer. His first three novels, “A Land More Kind Than Home,” “This Dark Road to Mercy,” a...