Book Reviews

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

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)

Saturday Review: “North Carolina’s Own Otto Wood: Notorious Criminal and Treasured Folk Hero” a review by Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. In NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Trevor McKenzie’s book Otto Wood: The Bandit 

Another early look at a review from the forthcoming Online Winter 2025 issue!

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 

Saturday Review: “A Poetic Journey into the Appalachian Past” a review by Thomas Rain Crowe in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s poetry collection When Time Was Suspended 

Saturday Review: “An Argument for Authenticity” a review by Elaine Thomas in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Daniel Wallace’s This Isn’t Going to End Well (2023)

Saturday Review: “The Baroque Power of Nathan Ballingrud’s New Novella,” a review by Dale Bailey, forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novella Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024). 

Saturday Review: “A Wry Exploration of Middle-Aged Womanhood” a review by Heather Bell Adams forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Ridley Smith’s Sex Romp Gone Wrong 

“‘how else not be lost'” by Robert M. West, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of James Seay’s’s Come! Come! Where? Where? (2024)