Charles Frazier appears at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. There is something admirable about Charles Frazier’s steadfastness and commitment. He was 45 years old when ...

There is an exchange at the heart of Nightwoods, Charles Frazier's first novel in five years, that conveys, in what is almost an aside, the central argument of the novel. A man named Stubblefield, ...

Landscape played a big role in Charles Frazier’s bestselling 1997 novel, “Cold Mountain,” which was adapted into a movie of the same name. The book, its inside cover lined with a map of the southern ...

In his third novel, "Nightwoods," Charles Frazier returns us to the side porch of Heaven, the Blue Ridge Mountains of his native North Carolina. Here, he tells a plain, old story about people who ...

The North Carolina author had a monster hit with 'Cold Mountain.' Now he’s left the 1860s for the 1960s with a dark crime story. He talks to Malcolm Jones about the pleasures of writing about his own ...

There's a romance about retreating into the wilderness, about abandoning the problems and complications of the modern world for the simplicity of life in the natural one. And it's a form of emotional ...

Through no fault of his own, the North Carolina writer Charles Frazier fell from everybody's favorite success story to a symbol of the publishing industry's profligacy. After he came out of nowhere in ...

With his third novel -- after “Cold Mountain” and “13 Moons” -- literary heavyweight Charles Frazier returns to Appalachia but leaves behind the 19th century to set his spooky but slow-moving story in ...

NIGHTWOODS By Charles Frazier Random House, $26 259 pages Novelist Charles Frazier clearly agrees with Robert Frost’s description of woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” especially the dark and deep part ...

Readers should likewise grant themselves a luxurious length of time to read his work. Nightwoods, like its predecessors, contains passages of such beauty and lyricism that you can't help but want to ...