Graduate student Daniel Moreno choose one of the 2018 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Honorable Mention winners: “In times as ideologically and politically charged as we find ourselves today, Angela Belcher Epps’s Sandhill: A Symphony of Souls is not just an incredibly refreshing read, but a sobering one as well.”
“The result is warm and respectful, even as the family in Meredith’s novel wrestles with the burdens of their personal and collective demons.”
This week’s “Friday from the Archives” is dedicated to Bertie E. Fearing, founding associate editor of NCLR and her love of cats and literature.
“Jeffrey Franklin still finds his figures of poet and homely muse in the fields and healing woods of North Carolina.”
Applewhite poem “Christmas by the River” from NCLR 2003
“As she works through her memories of the past and her love for Mattie, Goldman asks, and answers, a number of smaller mysteries.”
To a committed hard-copy-owning, dog-ear-marking, pencil-annotating bibliophile, there is nothing like a local independent bookstore.
“I can’t help but think that this must be a fine life – a bookstore with sunshine lighting up the fresh flowers on an island with some of the best beaches on the eastern seaboard.”
“The Best of Me demonstrates emphatically that David Sedaris relishes placing Homo sapiens beneath the proverbial microscope.”
“It is a poet’s place to bring truth and to question injustice, to be troubadour and truth-teller while calling for deeper witnessing and realizing what is here, now. It is our duty.”