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Book Reviews

NCLR will share a “new” book review weekly: usually from the most recent or forthcoming online issue, but sometimes, in recognition of current events, from a back issue.

Wilson Reviews Roberts

Saturday Review: “Painting A Varied Picture of Art in North Carolina” a review by Heather D. Wilson of
Liza Roberts’ Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Since the early days, NCLR has not only promoted the work of North Carolina writers but visual artists, too.

Poston reviews Post & Soniat

Saturday Review: “Clarity, Consolation, and the end to Definition” a review by David E. Poston in NCLR Online Fall 2023.  
Wild Liar (2023) by Deborah Pope
Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence (2023) by Katherine Soniat.

Kirkland reviews Owens

Saturday Review: “Poems of Hope and Redemption” a review by James W. Kirkland of Scott Owens’s Prepositional (2022) in NCLR Online Fall 2023.  

With poems like “The Problem with Deciding on a Single Object to Follow the Preposition”….

Knotts reviews Faladé

Saturday Review: “A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of David Wright Faladé’s Black Cloud Rising (2022) 

Clark reviews Maginnes

Saturday Review: “On the Bus with Al Maginnes” a review by Barbara Bennett of Fellow Survivors (2023)

Bennett reviews Frazier

Saturday Review: “The Forgotten South, Remembered” a review by Dale Neal of Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks’ Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession (2021)

Absher reviews Bathanti and Mills

Saturday Review: “Moving Bodies, Healing Places” a review by J.S. Absher
Joseph Bathanti. Light at the Seam (2022)
Joseph Mills. Bodies in Motion (2022)