`The Great American Read`
(World News USA)

Could a North Carolina novel be the country´s best-loved? `The Great American Read,` a PBS series, is in the process of selecting America´s best-loved novel. Is there a chance it could be a North Carolina book? Maybe. `The Great American Read` is an eight-part broadcast series. The opening broadcast in May revealed 100 novels that are in contention for selection as America´s best-loved. The series resumes on Tuesday, Sept. 11, and will air each week until Oct. 23 - when the final selection will be announced. These programs will, according to PBS, investigate `how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are...