Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.
Friday From The Archives: “Big Fish: The Myth and the Man” by Barbara Bennett from NCLR 2019 Online
Authors glean inspiration for their stories from all kinds of places. In Daniel Wallace’s latest, the memoir This Isn’t Going To End Well, his inspiration is his late brother-in-law. In this piece from 2019, Barbara Bennett takes us down a different road, seeing where mythology and storytelling served as inspiration for Wallace’s first novel, Big Fish.
Friday from the Archives: “Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart” by Sara Whitestone from NCLR Issue 21 (2012) “We don’t know who might need our creations. We don’t know who needs them for food, for medicine, or for kinship.”
Friday from the Archives: “The last ghost is always the lies that are told”: An Interview with Khalisa Rae Thompson by Maia L. Butler from NCLR Issue 31 (2022)
This week, we are continuing highlighting performance poetry for our first annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Contest.
Friday from the Archives: “Glenis Redmond: Poet, Teaching Artist, Griot” written by Lisa Sarasohn from NCLR Issue 28 (2019)
Friday from the Archives: “The Deep Shovel: A Conversation with Jaki Shelton Green” by Amber Flora Thomas from NCLR Issue 25 (2016)
Monique Truong will visit UNC-CH on March 28th. From the archives, we revisit her interview in our 2015 “Global Contexts” issue.
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts:
The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative, coming in September, is the book that grew out of Hecimovich’s 2007 essay.
They cherish, as you will, their father’s fervent memorial to friendships through fishing. Writing from his heart, Frank dedicated “Evening Hatch” to his cousin Hugh G. Chatham (1921–1985). This private poem is now being shared.
Friday from the Archives: “Writing the Interior Landscape: An Interview with George Ellison” written by Kathryn Stripling Byer, from NCLR Issue 20 (2011) NCLR mourns… Read More »“A Temporary Biding Place”: Remembering George Ellison
After winning the National Book Award for his 2021 novel Hell of a Book, it’s likely safe to say Mott himself is one of those blistering voices.