South Front District saw the opening of Mariposa, a Spanish tapas bar in May, launched by Bobby Zimmerman and the True Blue team. (Port City Daily/Shea Carver)…
Among the big local stories in the book world:
• The publication of Wilmington s Lie by New York Times writer David Zucchino, the first history of Wilmington s 1898 violence from a national publishing house. (Atlantic Monthly Press). Zucchino didn t discover 1898; lots of others have written about what s been described as the only successful coup in American history., notably LeRae Umfleet in A Day of Blood. (Not to mention Philip Gerard s novel Cape Fear Rising. ) Yet Zucchino put the incident in a national context and raised issues just as the Black Lives Matter movement was dawning.
• The literary community remained vibrant, with a number of local authors published by mainstream national presses. Among the year s major titles: Leave It As It Is, UNCW professor David Gessner s look at Theodore Roosevelt as environmentalist; Sword of the Seven Sins, Emily Colin s dystopian young adult novel;; Rock Force, former reporter Kevin Maurer s account of the American retaki