Charles Frazier in Conversation with Wiley Cash

UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash will join award-winning author Charles Frazier in conversation to celebrate the release of Frazier’s new book, “The Trackers,” on Monday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in Lipinsky Auditorium. Barrett Smith from the Steep Canyon Rangers will also perform Woody Guthrie/Depression era tunes.

Frazier has been writing critically-acclaimed, best-selling literary fiction for more than 25 years, and his work has been translated into over two dozen languages. “Cold Mountain,” his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, won the National Book Award, the ABBY Award, the Heartland Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and was an American Library Association Notable Book. In 2003, “Cold Mountain” was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. He is also the author of New York Times bestsellers “Thirteen Moons,” “Nightwoods,” and “Varina.”

Wiley Cash is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels “The Last Ballad,” “A Land More Kind Than Home,” and “This Dark Road to Mercy.” A UNC Asheville alumnus, Cash is he founder of the Open Canon Book Club and the co-founder of the Land More Kind Appalachian Artists’ Residency, he serves as the writer-in-residence at UNC Asheville and teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA.

Tickets are $30, and can be purchased here; free for UNC Asheville students, faculty, and staff with a OneCard.

Malaprop’s is pleased to partner with UNC Asheville to present this special event.