by David Payne | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Jesse Kornbluth, HEAD BUTLER & 20SomethingReads “The memoir of the year. I’d bet you’ll agree. If you read it. Is “Barefoot to Avalon” sad? Try heartbreaking. And not just because David Payne’s 42-year-old brother, George A., dies in a crash in 2000 as he’s...
by David Payne | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David Payne watched from his rearview mirror as his younger brother, George A., driving behind him in a two-man convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed, flipped over in the...
by David Payne | Aug 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
BAREFOOT TO AVALON By David Payne 294 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In 2000, David Payne’s 42-year-old brother, George A., died in a highway crash while helping the author move to North Carolina. The accident is the impetus for this fine memoir, not its subject....
by David Payne | Aug 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s always a risk to invite my husband along to a reading. Most of the time, he’d rather be watching the Panthers or re-runs of “L.A. Law.” But last week, we were both in for a unusual treat at Park Road Books. Hillsborough’s David Payne was reading from his...
by David Payne | Aug 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
A followup interview about my New York Times Op-Ed, “Why Group Therapy Worked” Listen here. ...
