Wiley Cash reads at Hunt Library, Oct. 18

Portrait of Wiley Cash.

The Last Ballad BookBestselling author and NC native Wiley Cash​ headlines the Friends of the Library Fall Reception on Thursday, Oct. 18 from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Duke Energy Hall at the Hunt Library. Cash will read from and discuss his new novel The Last Ballad and talk about life as a creative writing professor, author, and writer-in-residence.

The evening will also feature the NCSU Libraries Faculty Award presentation and a show-and-tell of archives collections from the Special Collections Research Center before the event. Cash’s books will be available for purchase, and an author signing will follow the event.

“In the retelling of the Loray Mill strike and the courageous role of Ella May Wiggins, Cash vividly blends the archival with the imaginative,” novelist Amy Rowland writes of The Last Ballad in her New York Times review. “Cash, with care and steadiness, has pulled from the wreckage of the past a lost moment of Southern progressivism. Perhaps fiction can help us bear the burden of Southern history, which is pressing down hard on us today.”

Tickets to the Fall Reception may be purchased online. Ticket prices are as follows:

  • $30 FOL Member
  • $45 FOL Couple
  • $40 non-FOL attendee
  • $65 non-FOL couple
  • $20 young alumnus
  • $30 young alumnus couple

Contact
Friends of the Library
919-515-2841
friends_of_the_library@ncsu.edu