JOSH WILKER

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Naked Came the Leaf Peeper: A Serial Collaborative Novel by Brian Lee Knopp et al

Twelve authors based in or near Western North Carolina celebrate Malaprop's 30th Anniversary with their contributions to the serial collaborative novel, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper. John P. McAfee, Susan Reinhardt, Vicki Lane, Tommy Hays, Wayne Caldwell, Fred Chappell, Alan Gratz, Annette Clapsaddle, Gene Cheek, and Linda Marie Barrett outdid themselves as they built upon a story arc brilliantly imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and brought to a laugh-out-loud finish by Tony Earley.

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JOSH WILKER

Start: 11/28/2010 3:00 pm

For anyone who ever held them. . .
and dreamed about the future.For anyone who ever held them. . .
and dreamed about the past.More than baseball cards, they were. . .

Cardboard Gods.

This quote is found in the dust jacket of Josh Wilker's memoir, Cardboard Gods: An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards. Mr. Wilker uses a collection of Topps baseball cards from 1974-1981 to share a passionate celebration of baseball that is at its heart a "gorgeous family chronicle about the relationship betweeen two brothers", telling the story of their lives from boyhood through adolescence and beyond. It dares to ask the question, "What if what's gone can return?"

Come to Malaprop's this afternoon, chat with Mr. Wilker and have your copy of this evocative memoir signed by him.