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.
Friday from the Archives: “Banned Anything Good Lately?” by Gene D. Lanier from NCLR 1 (1992)
Gene Lanier, an professor of Library and Information Science at ECU, wrote three “Freedom of Speech” columns for three early issues of NCLR: “Banned Anything Good Lately?” in 1992, “Who Knows What You’ve Been Reading?” in 1993, “Is Hate a Family Value?” in 1995.
Friday from the Archives: “Resisting Being Written Out of History: Women Activists and Recorders of the 1929 Gastonia Strike” by Walter Squire from NCLR 9 (2000)
Friday from the Archives: ““History v. Hollywood: Civil Rights Meet Silver Screen; or, ‘writing history with lightning,’” by Timothy B. Tyson from NCLR 21 (2012)
Friday from the Archives: “Summer Dawn,” a poem, by Priscilla Melchior, from NCLR 26 (2017)
Friday from the Archives: “That’s How We Learn”: Ben Fountain Talks With Student Veterans At ECU” compiled by Anna Froula with Sheena Eagan from NCLR 31 (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “What I Learned at Black Mountain – More!” essay by Fielding Dawson from NCLR 6 (1997)
Friday from the Archives: “Martin Gardner: North Carolina’s Historian of Oz and Annotator of Alice,” interview by Mark I. West from NCLR 10 (2001)
Friday from the Archives: “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia” by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell from NCLR 19 (2010)
Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Heart of Medicine: Intersections of Healthcare and Writing” by Laura Hope-Gill from NCLR 30 (2021)
Friday from the Archives: “Sister-in-Crime: An Interview with Margaret Maron” by Art Taylor from NCLR 2.1 (1994)