Margaret Maron Investigates Before the Murder
Friday from the Archives: “Sister-in-Crime: An Interview with Margaret Maron” by Art Taylor from NCLR 2.1 (1994)
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.
Grimsley Short Story is “Right Here”
Friday from the Archives: “He’s Right Here, He Says” a short story by Jim Grimsley from NCLR 25 (2016)
Gurganus Changing the Story 25 Years Ago
Friday from the Archives: “A “love of hopeless comedy”: The Humor of Personal and Cultural Crisis in Allan Gurganus’s Plays Well With Others” by Gary Richards from NCLR 17 (2008)
“A pawn, a queen, a riddle, a smile”
Friday from the Archives: “Alice,” a poem, by Marly Youmans, from NCLR 25 (2016)
On Writing and Motherhood
Friday from the Archives: “On the Hinge” an essay by Meredith Anton, from NCLR 13 (2004)
Not Lost: Elizabeth Spencer on Thomas Wolfe
Friday from the Archives: “Look Homeward, Angel: Of Ghosts, Angels, and Lostness” by Elizabeth Spencer, introduced by Terry L. Roberts, from NCLR 12 (2003)
We are looking forward to catching up dear friends at the Thomas Wolfe Society Conference in Durham NC at the end of May.
Zoe Kincaid Brockman: Journalism and Poetry Pioneer
Friday from the Archives: “Lyrical Journalism, Investigative Poetry” by Rebecca Duncan from NCLR 28 (2019)
Japanese-American-Carolinian-Californian
Friday from the Archives: “Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina” an essay by Elena Tajima Creef from NCLR 14 (2005) “I begin to understand that in the end, the only things any of us can ever really leave behind for one another are the stories of our lives.”
The Southern Female Voice of Kaye Gibbons
Friday from the Archives: “We Were Whole Again: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon” by Mary Ann Wilson from NCLR 8 (1999)
by Shelby Hans
The First Applewhite Prize Poem: John Thomas York
Friday from the Archives: “Lamp” by John Thomas York, the first Applewhite Prize winning poem from NCLR 21 (2012)