Authors Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor talk about “Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price” on “North Carolina Bookwatch” today at 11 a.m. and Thursday at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV.

In the book, Harris and Sartor, using photographs by Harris, take readers on a tour of the house where famed North Carolina writer Reynolds Price lived for many years.

As the book’s publishers point out, “His eclectic and expansive collection — from the etchings of Picasso to photographs of James Dean, from Greek sculpture to religious icons, from busts of his literary heroes to African masks — created a salon-like refuge in which every wall, bookshelf, and piece of furniture signaled some aspect of his essential self. Through his home, Price conveyed his interior life in a way that few were able to experience—until now.”

In “A Dispatch from the Center for Documentary Studies” at Duke University “they have meticulously, and lovingly, selected excerpts from his poems and writings that interweave with and further amplify the effect and meaning of the images.”

Guest host Randall Kenan will interview Harris and Sartor on “Bookwatch.”

Local author on panel

Jan McCanless, mystery writer and humorist, will be part of a panel discussion at the Charlotte Writers’ Club on April 17, 7-8:30 p.m., at Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Road, Charlotte, room 104.

Joining her for “Building an Author Platform & Marketing Strategies for the Digital Age” will be Alice Osborn, a poet, musician and book coach, and Jessica Peterson, author of multiple indie Romance series.

For more information, see www.charlottewritersclub.org/calendar_of_events.