North Carolina author Jill McCorkle will read from and sign copies of her new short story collection, Going Away Shoes. "These stories provide what brilliant fiction always provides—insight, felt life, voices of others, fascination—but more than anything else, they give pleasure," writes author Richard Bausch. Award-winning McCorkle is the author of eight previous books—three story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She teaches writing at NCSU.