NCLR 2003

Gliding into a New Era Cover Story: First Flight, Photo Finds, and Friendship
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Son of a Gun, Sky-high: Clyde Edgerton on Flying
an interview by Tonita S. Branan

Soaring on “words of living flame”: Flights of Narrative Fancy in Clyde Edgerton’s The Floatplane Notebooks and In Memory of Junior
by Tim Edwards

A Fictional Flight “First” — Set in North Carolina
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

“living deeper into matter”: Robert Frost’s “Kitty Hawk” and the Creation of Nature
by William Stott

“I pay my part for Lafayette and Rochambeau”: North Carolina’s Lafayette Escadrille Pilots
by Melissa Edmundson

“the pilot sleeps”: Randall Jarrell’s Wartime Flight Poems
by Maryscot Mullins

Alone in the Air
an essay by James Chris Wise

“the desire to fly faster, farther, and higher”: Amelia Earhart Remembered
by Heather M. White and Lu Ann Jones

Look Homeward, Angel: Of Ghosts, Angels, and Lostness
by Elizabeth Spencer
introduced by Terry L. Roberts

Pictures for Words: Douglas Gorsline’s Illustrations for Look Homeward, Angel
by Timothy A. Riggs

River-Ruin, The Vanished Farmhouse, Christmas by the River, Fall Will, Looking Up from the Woodland Clearing and Ceremony at Heroes’ Square
six poems by James Applewhite
photography by Jean-Luc Scemama, Joseph Smooke, and Jan G. Hensley

The Warehouse 1970, 7240 Wrightsville Causeway and Not Quitting the Choir
three poems by Robert Hill Long
photography by Ryan Blake Webb

Country Place, Requiem and Legacy
three poems by Bill Griffin
photography by Jacquelyn Leebrick

Okra Stew and A Left at Clara’s Rock
two poems by Kelly K. Hamilton
photography by Gilbert Leebrick

The Least Dread
a story by Dale Neal
illustrated by Rochelle E. Johnson

Explosions
a story by Amy E. Weldon
illustrated by Whitney Preslar

Into the Wind
a story by Stacey Cochran
illustrated by Natalia Moroz

Solitaire
a story by Vicki Moreland
illustrated by Elizabeth McRorie

Canton Hybrids
a poem by Sally Molini
photography by Joseph Smooke

Wedding Belles
a story by Melissa Hardy
illustrated by Jennifer Vivekanand

Hillbilly Hideaway, Stokes County
by Virginia Gunn Fick

A New Voyage to Carolina: Dining at Windmill Point Restaurant, Nag’s Head
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Fish Stews, Pitt County
by W. Keats Sparrow

Finding Our Way Through Fear and Remembrance
a review of new short fiction collections by Jill McCorkle and Allan Gurganus
by Christina G. Bucher

The High Cost of Being Human
a review of Peter Makuck’s Costly Habits
by Michael Parker

What Lies Beneath: Myth, Memory, and Obsession
a review essay on new novels by Mark Powell and Pamela Duncan
by Paula Gallant Eckard

Souls on a Wire: Technology and the Search for Connections
a review of Wendy Brenner’s Phone Calls from the Dead
by Mary Carroll-Hackett

Obsession and Loss: New Works on Roanoke and the “Lost Colony”
a review essay by E. Thomson Shields Jr.

Humor, History, and Family
a review of Hunter James’s The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
by Gretchen Martin

The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame and a Literary Historian’s Perspective: An Interview with James W. Clark Jr.
by Lisa Morgan
photography by Jan G. Hensley

Like A Brother: Profile of a Literary Friendship, an interview with Tim McLaurin and Clyde Edgerton
by Sheryl Cornett

Tim McLaurin: Fayetteville, December 14, 1953 – Morehead City, July 12, 2002
a remembrance by Jerry Leath Mills

“To walk these hills”: Poetic Inspiration for Appalachian Poet Hilda Downer
by Anna Dunlap Higgins

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Nash to Proffitt
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

NC Newsbriefs
by Celeste Pottier

NCLR Celebrates 10th Anniversary
photography by Ryan Webb