From The Archives

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

Friday from the Archives: Trace Ramsey’s “Miller Road,” winner of the 2016 Alex Albright CNF Prize, published in NCLR 2017 with art by Damien Stamer.… Read More »Winner of the 2016 Alex Albright CNF Prize