NCLR 2000

The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper
by Richard Rankin

“If he eats me, he surely can’t swallow me”: Separate Spheres and Subversion in the Folk Plays of the Carolina Playmakers
by Kecia D. McBride

The Dramatic Topography of Paul Green
a review by Dwight Watson

Resisting Being Written Out of History: Women Activists and Recorders of the 1929 Gastonia Strike
by Walter Squire

Union Organizing in Folly Forces Attention to Issues of Gender and Race
a review by Mary Kathryn Thornton

A Hopeful Outlook in Hope Mills
a review by Mary Kathryn Thornton

Tar Heel Tunes, North Carolina Recording and Record Production
by Michael “Lightnin’” Wells
art by Richard Garrison

Chewing the Fat with a Blues Master: An Interview with Lightnin’ Wells
by Jeff Franklin and Christopher Salerno
photography by Jaime Konarski

Reconstructing Hemingway: An Interview with Biographer Michael S. Reynolds
by James Plath

“Hearing Me Into Speech”: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina
by Wynn Cherry

Look at What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective
by Tamara M. Powell

Some Day
a short story by Catherine W. McCall
art by Joan Mansfield

Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley’s Gothic Gospel
by Ed Madden
photography by W. Cameron Dennis and Mary Thiessen

Home for the Holidays
a review of Jim Grimsley’s Comfort and Joy
by Gary Richards

Taproot & Cradle
a poem by Khaled Mattawa
art by Joan Mansfield

A Daughter Remembers: Margaret Roberts and Thomas Wolfe
by Martha Morgan

(Un)Blest Be the Ties that Bind: The Dysfunctional Family in Look Homeward, Angel and The Great Santini
by John Idol

A Tribute to Wolfe
a poem by Robert Morgan
photography by Ruth Winchester Ware

Customs and Heart Sutra #6
two poems by Debra Kang Dean
art by Olivia Gatewood

Rebecca Boone
a poem by Ron Rash
art by Jean Bouquet

In Defiance
a poem by Jane Sasser
photography by Jaime Konarski
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New Man on the Docks
a poem by E.M. Schorb
photography by Jaime Konarski

The Jumping Off Place
a short story by David C. Dickson
photography by Charles R. Ewen, I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. and Mary Thiessen

An Office Romance
a short story by Matthijs Schoots
illustrated by Janet Darby

Sweater Weather
a short story by Andrew Walters
illustrated by Janet Darby

Call Me Hartley
a review of Allan Gurganus’s Plays Well with Others
by Jeff Abernathy

Turn! Turn! Turn!: Intersections and Mutualities
a review of Gail Godwin’s Evensong
by Kerstin W. Shands

Tim McLaurin and the Narrative-Dramatic Poem
a review of Lola
by Jerry Leath Mills

Creatures That Make Us Shudder: A Collection of Essays by Janet Lembke
a review of Despicable Species
by Robin Springer

Weighing Down Life with Facts
a review of Gwendolyn Parker’s Trespassing
by Angeli R. Rasbury

John Foster West: An Appalachian Legend
by Anna Dunlap Higgins

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Lacy to Mathabane
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

NC Newsbriefs

Food Finds: Gary’s Bar-B-Cue
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

In Memory of Linda Flowers
by John Patterson