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: “Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999,” essay by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and photographs by Rob Amberg from NCLR 11 (2002)
25 years ago Hurricane Floyd passed over Eastern NC and the after-flooding ravaged the state.
Friday from the Archives: “You Sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend” by Mark Ogilvie, from NCLR 11 (2002)
Written By: Fall Intern Robert Miranda
Friday from the Archives: “Coffee to Go” memoir by Linda Flowers from NCLR 5 (1996)
“But now, young and old alike work at jobs having no particular value to themselves beyond their pay. My parents and I could see in every aspect of our lives the meaning of our work.”
Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine” an essay by Erica Abrams Locklear from NCLR 22 (2013)
Friday from the Archives: “She Said That Saint Augustine is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600)” an essay by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley from NCLR 32 (2023)
Friday from the Archives: Two poems accompanying “Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe” by Bertie E. Fearing from NCLR 3 (1994)
NCLR enjoyed attending the biannual North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony last month, held at the beautiful Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.
“From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University” by Douglas J. McMillan from NCLR 16 (2007)
Friday from the Archives: “Paul Green: A Professor of the Practice of Playwriting” an essay by Georgann Eubanks from NCLR 31 (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “Get Ready for Green Fest”: a look back at a Paul Green essay in the 2012 issue’s feature of NC Literature into Film, in anticipation of an upcoming NCLR event
Friday from the Archives: “Blind Faith” by David McGuirt from NCLR 19 (2010) By Kenly Corya, Editorial Assistant As Appalachia recovers from a catastrophic hurricane,… Read More »Proving Faith with Snakes