Zipf Reviews Church
Saturday Review: “Dark Secrets of Carolina Girlhood” a review by Karin Zipf of Meagan Church’s novels The Girls We Sent Away and The Last Carolina Girl in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Devra Thomas
Literary Historical Markers: Find & Write!
Friday from the Archives: “State Highway Historic Markers: Public Commemoration and Literary History” by Michael Hill from NCLR 2 (1993)
Looking for your next literary research subject? May we suggest riding around your town til you find a local literary highway historical marker? There are over a hundred around the state, in many unexpected places.
Discoveries at the Library
“Serendipity: The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.” I wouldn’t call it serendipity that all our incredible writers have come from North Carolina (our soil seeming to provide sustenance for writerly types from Murphy to Manteo), but it is highly likely that many readers find favorite passages/poems/books/writers that way.
Southern Reviews Frese
Saturday Review: “Between Life Before and Life After” a review by Kristi Southern
of The Saddest Girl on the Beach (2024) a novel by Heather Frese in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Remembering doris davenport
Friday from the Archives: “i forgive the spiders” a poem by doris davenport from NCLR 20 (2011) NCLR joins family and friends in mourning the passing of Dr. doris davenport earlier this month
Harrington Reviews Earle
Saturday Review: “Let Us All Be Happy” a review by Janis Harrington in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Ralph Earle’s poetry collection, Everything You Love Is New (2024)
Sharing Stories and Aid After Natural Disasters
Friday from the Archives: “Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999,” essay by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and photographs by Rob Amberg from NCLR 11 (2002)
25 years ago Hurricane Floyd passed over Eastern NC and the after-flooding ravaged the state.
Colley Reviews Newton
Saturday Review: “Untangling the Strings” a review by Sharon Colley of Heather Newton’s novel The Puppeteer’s Daughters (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
The Meaning of Work
Friday from the Archives: “Coffee to Go” memoir by Linda Flowers from NCLR 5 (1996)
“But now, young and old alike work at jobs having no particular value to themselves beyond their pay. My parents and I could see in every aspect of our lives the meaning of our work.”
Oxendine, Lowry: Lumbee or No?
Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine” an essay by Erica Abrams Locklear from NCLR 22 (2013)