From The Archives

“You have to travel, even if it’s only for two days a week or two days a month. You have to go away to get… Read More »Coming “Home” with Samm-Art Williams

In NCLR Issue 13, published in 2004, professor Christina Bucher examined the poetry Murray wrote and published. Specifically, Bucher provides a scholarly look at the… Read More »A Case for the Poet Pauli Murray

Friday from the Archives: “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods” by Paula Rawlins from North Carolina Literary Review Issue… Read More »Mountain Medicine: Music and Healing in Frazier’s Nightwoods

Cash reminisced about his time being a student of Gaines in an interview with George Hovis in our 2013 issue, released after his breakout debut… Read More »Writerly Influences: Cash on Gaines

Continuing with our student interns’ selections, this week we have Keegan Holder’s pick. We look back at Michael Parker’s “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, published in… Read More »Flashbacks: In Fiction and To ’15

Graduate student Daniel Moreno choose one of the 2018 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Honorable Mention winners: “In times as ideologically and politically charged as we… Read More »Looking back at 2018 Albright Honorable Mention Essay

This week’s “Friday from the Archives” is dedicated to Bertie E. Fearing, founding associate editor of NCLR and her love of cats and literature.

Friday from the Archives: Read an interview with NCLR‘s Founding Editor Alex Albright in the 2002, 10th anniversary issue. Read the first page here. Buy… Read More »An Interview with Our Founding Editor

“I can’t help but think that this must be a fine life – a bookstore with sunshine lighting up the fresh flowers on an island… Read More »Still Distinctive Island Reading