NCLR 1998

Blazing Star
a story by Lee Smith
photographs by Jay Kranyik

“Wonderful Terms and Phrases”: Contrasting Dialect in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Lee Smith’s Oral History
by Kelvin Massey

“The Story Will Feed Us”: The Power of Story in the Career of Donald Davis
by Anna Dunlap Higgins

“I Got These Hands Dirty Saving a Life”: Oral Histories of Three African-American North Carolina Physicians
by Karen Kruse Thomas

Edward Diggs and Desegregation of the UNC Medical School
by Karen Kruse Thomas with Glenda Jakubowski

Wesley Critz George: Scientist and Segregationist
by Steven Niven

Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers
by Lu Ann Jones

“A Little Baby-Snatchin’ Now and Again”: Oral Narratives from North Carolina Midwives
by Patricia Gantt with Lorraine Hale Robinson

The Carolinians of Cherokee Sound: Cultural and Linguistic Connections between North Carolina and the Bahamas
by Marvin W. Hunt
photographs by Glenn E. Lewis

The North Carolina Connection in Cherokee Sound
by Walt Wolfram and Jeremy Sellers

Review of Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
by Jeutonne Brewer

The Tipton Tornado
a story by Fred Chappell
illustration by Alice io Olgesby

“Flying by Night”: An Early Interview with Fred Chappell
by David Paul Ragan

Irony and Allegory in I Am One of You Forever: How Fantasy and the Ideal Become the Real
by Sally Sullivan

Fred Chappell as Magic Realist
by Hal McDonald
Excerpt from I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
Illustrated by Alice io Oglesby

Intimations of Order: Fred Chappell’s More Shapes Than One
by John Lang

“Citizens Who Observe”: A Conversation with Fred Chappell
by Sally Sullivan

Inheritances
an essay by Jeffe Kennedy

Wednesday Night and The Three-Period Lesson at Le Cirque du Bout du Monde
two poems by Julie Fay
art by Henry Stindt

In Country Graveyards and The Laugh
two poems by Michael Chitwood
photograph by W. Cameron Dennis
illustration by Alice io Oglesby

Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean and Interstices and Protuberances
two poems by Kathleen Halme
art by Claude Howell

Starlight
a poem by R.T. Smith
photography by Mary Thiessen

Grandmama Dressing
a poem by Maggie Miles
illustration by Alice io Oglesby

Bargain with Transcendence and Brightness Falls
two poems by Robert Hill Long

First Book on Doris Betts Published
a review of Elizabeth Evans’s Twayne United States Author Series volume on Doris Betts
by Dorothy M. Scura

The Fiery Soul of the (Extra)Ordinary
a review of Lee Smith’s new short story collection
by Tanya Long Bennett

Family, Faith, and Myth in Listre, North Carolina: Clyde Edgerton’s Return to Familiar Places and Themes in Where Trouble Sleeps
a review by Stuart Harris

“loneliness, sexuality, and desire” in Carolina
a review of Lawrence Naumoff’s A Plan for Women
by Kristina Knotts

“In what place is this cloud of presences stored?”: James Applewhite, Robert Hill Long, and the Questioning of History
a review by Curt Rode

“A Map Made Close By Looking” 
a review of Peter Makuck’s Against Distance
by Marc Hudson

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Hay to Hymen
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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