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.
Read this excerpt from John Ehle’s The Landbreakers (with art by Will Henry Stevens); then read an exploration of John Ehle’s Mountain Novels by Terry Roberts. Consider… Read More »An Excerpt from John Ehle’s The Landbreakers
On this April Fool’s Friday from the Archives, check out the contents of the “Mirth Carolina Laugh Tracks,” a dual CD set that went out… Read More »April’s Fools!
Friday From the Archives: Read William Howard Rough’s introduction to his 1960 interview with Paul Green on “A Theater of the People”; then read the… Read More »William Howard Rough’s Interview with Paul Green
Friday from the Archives: “Not since Wilma Dykeman’s Tall Woman (1962) has a Southern Appalachian novelist focused with such intensity on the often unrecognized strength… Read More »The Unrecognized Strength of Appalachian Women
Friday From the Archives: Read some of the introduction to June Guralnick‘s play Finding Clara, set during the 1929 Gastonia Milll Strikes (it is Women’s… Read More »Finding Clara: Women’s History Month
Friday from the Archives: it’s Women’s History Month. Find Ashley Burge’s essay on Harriet Ann Jacobs in NCLR 2019 (with art by John Biggers)
This Friday from the Archives is George Hovis’s interview with North Carolina’s beloved Randall Kenan.
In this Friday from the Archives read the introduction to Gina Caison’s interview with Eddie Swimmer about the outdoor drama Unto These Hills in NCLR… Read More »Eddie Swimmer’s Unto These Hills
This Friday from the Archives is 4 poems by Gerald Barrax, with art by Jacob Lawrence, in NCLR 2011. Read through your local library. or… Read More »4 Poems by Gerald Barrax
This Friday from the Archives, Erica Abrams Locklear’s essay on Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine. Read the first page on our website, the whole essay… Read More »Essay on Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine