We’re only growing more and more excited for the premiere of Deadline, the new movie starring Steve Talley and Eric Roberts, and based on Mark Ethridge’s thrilling novel Grievances, in theaters in 2012. And now, the official Deadline trailer has finally arrived! …
We want to be first in line next year when the movie Deadline, based on Mark Ethridge’s novel Grievances, arrives in theaters. The movie stars Steve Talley (Brothers & Sisters) and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, Heroes, Entourage) as newspaper reporters working to solve a twenty year-old civil rights murder in South Carolina; the story is based on actual events from Ethridge’s work as a newspaper reporter …
NewSouth author Mark Ethridge recently visited Virginia Commonwealth University as a guest lecturer during the school’s annual Mass Communications Week. Ethridge delivered the Turpin Lecture on Wednesday, October 9, where he talked about journalism and about his novel, Grievances. Students and faculty heard Mark describe how he wanted to create a novel that provided a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper industry. Mark also talked about the state of print journalism and how he incorporated those ideas into his novel …
Writer and journalist Julia Oliver has reviewed Mark Ethridge’s novel Grievances for the new online book review section of First Draft magazine, published by the Alabama Writers’ Forum …
Author Mark Ethridge remembers his friend and colleague Doug Marlette, who died this past week. Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and novelist …
More notes from the road from our author Mark Ethridge: “A week from tonight, I’m the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Queens University Friends of the Library in Charlotte – another of the many speeches I’ve made to literary groups and at universities since NewSouth Books published Grievances almost a year ago. This one stands to be a little different. On May 8, 1974 – thirty three years prior, almost to the day – my grandmother, Willie Snow Ethridge, addressed the same group …”
Grievances author Mark Ethridge will be interviewed on North Carolina’s Public Radio program, The State of Things. His segment will air on Wednesday, February 21 at 11:45 a.m. …
Author Mark Ethridge offers some notes from the road while he’s been touring with his new book, Grievances: “For several months I’ve been on a tour for my novel, Grievances, which came out in May. I was excited getting into it but I figured that by now–roughly appearance number 40 of 60 or so–it would become tiresome, repetitive. I couldn’t have been more wrong …”
The Charlotte Observer featured Grievances author Mark Ethridge’s October 25 appearance at the Novello Festival of Reading in a Local Page article. As the Observer notes, Ethridge explained to the audience at the festival that Grievances is based on a true story of racial injustice from the 1970s. The article notes that, though the novel is a work of fiction, it is “full of details [Ethridge] absorbed as a third-generation reporter.” …
A belated congratulations to author Mark Ethridge and his NewSouth book Grievances, which topped the Sandhills, North Carolina area best seller list according to The