Listen to the interview with David Madden on Poets and Writers with Henry McCarthy at Emory & Henry College in 2023.
Jul 262023
Interviews
Jan 032018
(Photo: Paul Clark)
For me, the unimagined life is not worth living. “The Beautiful Greed,” my first novel, based on my two years as a merchant seaman, came out in 1961 when I was living in Boone, teaching at Appalachian State. For the past eight years, I have been living a life of creativity in Black Mountain.
“Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh,” my 15th work of fiction, came out this fall.
In November 2009, my wife Robbie and I moved from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Black Mountain to be near our son, Blake, a professional photographer, and our grandchild, Kuniko Nicole, a student at the Asheville School.
In making that decision, the charm of Black Mountain itself, as we knew it from several visits, was also an incentive.
Pam Hester, our local Realtor, was certainly right when she assured us that we would love the little ivory-colored house, now more than a century old, in the first block of Church Street. “These have been,” we often say, “the happiest years of our lives.”
The huge L&N railroad desk on which I have written more than 60 books while teaching at Centre College, University of Louisville, Kenyon College, Ohio University, and 41 years as writer-in-residence at LSU fits perfectly in my cozy study, where I have written eight books.
Out of her study on the opposite side of the house, Robbie spends each day storming North Carolina in her efforts to promote racial justice and to pass the Equal Rights Amendment at long last.
Started 10 years before in Baton Rouge, “London Bridge in Plague and Fire,” my magnum opus, was the first novel I thrashed out on my huge desk in Black Mountain. Continue reading »
Jan 312014
Southern Festival of Books Panel Discussion (video)
Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book The Jewish Confederates, published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about his book Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870, published by University of Tennessee Press. David Madden talked about the book he edited Beyond the Battlefield: The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Times of the Civil War Soldier, published by Touchstone Books. After their remarks the panel answered questions from audience members.
Aug 082013
Read The Whole Story of Knoxville in the Metro Pulse by Jack Neely
Dec 202012
By Jim Engster
Jim Engster talks with David Madden, about his new book “London Bridge in Plague and Fire” and about some of Madden’s favorite writers on the Jim Engster radio show.
Oct 292012
Dec 032011
Listen to New York Public Radio interview with David Madden about All the King’s Men, novel and movie.
Aug 032011
Listen to David Madden’s comments about James M. Cain in an interview with Sara Fishko on WNYC Radio.
Jul 062010
Watch David Madden’s interview with the University of Tennessee Press on Abducted by Circumstance.