NCLR Online 2012 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina Literature into Film

cover design by Dana Ezzell Gay

NCLR Online 2012 Press Release [PDF]

Litflix: Adapting North Carolina Literature into Film

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Welcome to the first issue of NCLR Online . . . an open access supplement where we will now publish the book reviews and literary news that used to appear in our annual print issue. . . . To introduce our 2012 focus on North Carolina Literature into Film, we reprint here an essay by preeminent North Carolina playwright Paul Green on the subject of moviemaking.”

Eleanor E. Tate and Phoenix Films Executive Producer Barbara Bryant

The Theatre and the Screen
an essay by Paul Green
introduced by Margaret D. Bauer

Border Crossings
a poem by C.G. Thompson
art by Ben Isburg

Last Night We Saw South Pacific and Joan Crawford and Others
two poems by James Applewhite
art by Paul Hartley

Celebrity Watchers
Tamra Wilson, “Dining with Robert Redford” & Other Stories
a review by Amanda Stevens
illustration by Grey Blackwell

My Film Biz Blues
an essay by James Dodson

Just an Overnight Guest, from Book to Film
an essay by Eleanora E. Tate

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

Flashbacks: Twenty Years of Echoes

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“This issue begins NCLR’s second decade, so it should be no surprise that the Flashbacks section is growing. More and more of the writers whose books are selected for review are return appearances to NCLR’s pages.”

Pamlico River, January Farmhouse, and Greene County Pastoral
three poems by James Applewhite
art by Bob Rankin, Tony Breuer, and Richard Garrison

Race in the American South
Clyde Edgerton, The Night Train
a review by Jeff Abernathy

Flash’s Mama
by Clyde Edgerton

My Brother, Last Radiation Treatments
a poem by Susan Laughter Meyers
photography by Stephen Aubuchon

Dark and Light — and Wonderment
Ron Rash, Waking
a review by Susan Laughter Meyers

Ron Rash, Childhood Friend, Runner, and . . . Recipient of the 2011 North Carolina Award for Literature
by Cindy Putnam-Evans

Contemporary Carpetbaggers Calling Carolina “Home”
Marjorie Hudson, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas
Valerie Nieman, Blood Clay
a review by Erica Plouffe Lazure

On the Beach
a poem by Valerie Nieman
art by Claude Howell

Reports from Underground
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Inside the Money Machine
a review by Deborah Hooker

2011 NC AAUW Award:
Gloria Houston, Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile

Taking the Long Way Home
John Hart, Iron House
a review by Art Taylor

Lost Colony Veteran William Ivey Long: Third
Hardee Rives Dramatic Arts Award Recipient

Celebrating Bland Simpson: 2011 Recipient of the Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
presentation remarks by Jerry Leath Mills

North Carolina Miscellany

A Miscellany of Material

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“This section provides quite a miscellany of material: reviews of poetry, from a debut collection to several Selected Poems collections; a review of three very different kinds of historical novels; and a review of a debut novel that has been decades in the writing.”

The Fish Boy
a poem by John Thomas York
art by Jane Filer

Four for the Bookshelf, Four for the Future
Peter Makuck, Long Lens
Heather Ross Miller, Lumina: A Town of Voices
David Rigsbee, The Red Tower
Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices
a review by Al Maginnes

Heartbreak and Humor
Timothy McBride, The Manageable Cold
a review by Peter Makuck

Dorianne Laux Receives 2011 Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
presentation remarks by Michael McFee

Person, Place, Thing, or Idea: Reading the Past in Three North Carolina Set Historical Novels
Steve Berry, The Jefferson Key
Michael Parker, The Watery Part of the World
Laura S. Wharton, The Pirate’s Bastard
a review by Matthew Luter

Parker Receives Parker Award
presentation remarks by Margaret D. Bauer
Addendum
acceptance remarks by Michael Parker

“dreams of the Good and the killers of the dream”
Anna Jean Mayhew, The Dry Grass of August
a review by Christina Bucher

2011 Ragan Old North State Award
presentation remarks by James W. Clark, Jr