NCLR Online 2018 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina on the Map and in the News

cover design by Dana Ezzell Lovelace

NCLR Online 2018 Press Release [PDF]

Pushcart Nomination
W.A Polf

The Notorious and the Noteworthy in the Old South

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“…even in the middle of the darkest chapters of our history, we have much to be proud of here in North Carolina, including talented writers who use their pens (or keyboards) to fight against discrimination.”

Allan Gurganus: Two Tributes

Homage to THE Allan Gurganus
by Margaret D. Bauer

Celebrating Allan Gurganus, “Our Author”
by Leverett T. Smith, Jr.

Crafting Local Souls: The Metafiction of Allan Gurganus
by Zackary Vernon

Foodways and the Story of North Carolina
a review by Joanne Joy
Vivian Howard, Deep Run Roots
Randall Kenan, The Carolina Table

Lift Every Voice
a review by Walter Squire
Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

The Biltmore’s Unlikely Hero
a review by Teresa Bryson
Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

Infrastructure
a poem by Janet Joyner
art by Carol Retsch-Bogart

With Eyes to See It
a review by Zackary Vernon
Ron Rash, Above the Waterfall

Redemption in the Imprisoning Mountains
a review by Savannah Paige Murray
Ron Rash, The Risen

Terry Roberts Receives James Still Award

In it for Life
a review by Anna Dunlap Higgins-Harrell
Mae Miller Claxton and Rain Newcomb, eds.
Conversations with Ron Rash

Sea, Sand, and Human Hands
a review by Alton Ballance
David Blevins, North Carolina’s Barrier Islands
Karen Willis Amspacher and Barbara Garrity-Blake, Living at the Water’s Edge

Bland Simpson Receives 2017 Caldwell Humanities Award

Boomer
a short story by Leah Hampton
art by Donald Sultan

Giving Fictional Shape to History
a review by Kristina L. Knotts
Robert Morgan, As Rain Turns to Snow and Other Stories

Wolfe Award Goes to Debut Novelist

Inside the Mind of Reynolds Price
a review by James W. Clark, Jr.
Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor,
Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price

Extraordinary Misadventures
a review by Barbara Bennett
Daniel Wallace, Extraordinary Adventures

North Carolina, My Kith, My Home
by Ali Standish

Exemplary EbzB Team Receives Hardee Rives Award
presentation remarks by Lorraine Hale Robinson

2017 Parker Award Winner Pays It Forward

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

Reconnections and Remembrances

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“As editor, I enjoy reconnecting with people from past issues and finding out what they’ve been up to since they were last in our pages – some recently, others many years ago.”

“You must always have an ‘Alex’”: How a Wrong Turn Became the Right Place
by Emily Herring Wilson

In Memoriam: Thomas E. Douglass
by Alex Albright

A Portrait of Pauli
a review by Christina G. Bucher
Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow

Chopping Weeds
a poem by Lenard D. Moore
art by David C. Driskell

Memories for Safekeeping
a review by L. Teresa Church
Lenard D. Moore, The Open Eye
Glenis Redmond, What My Hand Say

Love Letters and Wedding Dress Ashes
a poem by Marty Silverthorne
art by Courtney Johnson

Growing up in the Blue Ridge: The Lives of Two North Carolina Mountain Writers
a review by Gene Hyde
Wilma Dykeman, Family of Earth
Gregory S. Taylor, James Larkin Pearson

Spreading Awe: Childhood and Heritage
a review by Sarah Huener
Joseph Bathanti, The 13th Sunday after Pentecost
Michael McFee, We Were Once Here

The Ragan Old North State Award
presentation remarks by D.G. Martin

Farm Nights
a poem by Annie Frazier
art by Jensynne East and Phoebe Lewis

Beyond the Moon and the Stars
a review by F. Brett Cox
John Kessell, The Moon and the Other

Fifty Shades of Minotaur
a review by George Hovis
Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur
Takes His Own Sweet Time

New Memories of the Old Jim Crow
a review by Garrett Bridger Gilmore
Danny Johnson, The Last Road Home

Never Ceasing to Be Ourselves
a review by Donna A. Gessell
Kat Meads, In This Season of Rage and
Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts as These

In Memoriam
Joseph Bathanti Remembers Kathryn Stripling Byer
Barbara Presnell Remembers Susan Laughter Meyers
with poetry by Shelby Stephenson

Sacred Anthems: Familial Relations and Military Service
a review by Hannah Crane Sykes
Barbara Presnell, Blue Star

An Overlook in a Poet’s Corner: The Occasion of “Selected and New Poems”
a review by Eric C. Walker
Mark Cox, Sorrow Bread

In Memoriam
June Guralnick Remembers Sally Buckner
a poem by Shelby Stephenson

North Carolina Miscellany

These are a Few of my Favorite Things

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“The writers included in this section reflect some of the most rewarding aspects of my job as NCLR Editor: publishing work by and about new writers who give so generously of their time in service to other writers.”