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From The Archives

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.

Hallberg’s “City on Fire” Makes Jump to Television

Friday from the Archives: “Make Believe with Utter Conviction: An Interview With Garth Risk Hallberg” by Brian Glover from NCLR Issue 24 (2017) “Brian Glover interviewed Hallberg during his novel book tour in 2015. Glover wrote, “By any measure, Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel City on Fire was one of the major literary events of 2015…”

“Creating Tradition on the Qualla Boundary”

Friday from the Archives: “There’s Always A Story To Tell: Creating Tradition on the Qualla Boundary” by Karen McKinney from NCLR Issue 13 (2004) “What emerges is an example of Cherokee literature that is as traditional as the story of Selu’s gift of corn but unashamedly a product of the late twentieth century.”

The Heart of the Stories We Share

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.

Ghost Stories: An Interview With Khalisa Rae

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.