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Book Reviews

NCLR shares a Saturday Review Post weekly: usually a book review from the most recent or forthcoming online issue, but sometimes, in recognition of current events, from a back issue.

MacLeod Reviews McKenzie

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!

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 

Crowe Reviews Duncan

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 

Thomas Reviews Wallace

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)

Bailey Reviews Ballingrud

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). 

Adams reviews Smith

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 

West reviews Seay

“‘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)

Tilley reviews Jones

“Emergency Salad Dressing” by Wendy Tilley, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of EnaJones’s Six Feet Below Zero (2021)

Knox Reviews Jones

“Growing Gracefully” by Amber Knox, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of Karen Jones’s The Summer of Grace (2022)