Doug Marlette’s friendship with best selling author Pat Conroy to be focus of book festival panel
Book Festival puts artists in touch:Nearly every day for at least the past decade, cartoonist Doug Marlette has taken a late morning telephone call from an old friend on the South Carolina coast.It’s a way for the Pulitzer Prize-winner and his pal, best-selling novelist Pat Conroy, to continue their ongoing conversations about life in today’s culture, Marlette said. “It’s kind of like having a witness to things that we both apprehend.”