NCLR 1994 – North Carolina Literary Review

Featuring the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot

Cover art by Ray Elmore

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Features

“The lines between history, drama, folklore, and documentary are thin.”
—Ed Devany

Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses
by Janet Lembke
Illustrations by Paul Rustand

Keeping Track
a poem by A.R. Ammons

Paul Green’s War Songs
by John Herbert Roper

Paul Green: Documentarian
by Ed Devany

Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe
by Bertie E. Fearing

Sister-in-Crime: An Interview with Margaret Maron
by Art Taylor

ET & WNC Express Lines: An Interview with Charles Wright
by Michael Chitwood

The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898

“By 8 o’clock on the morning of 10 November 1898, a crowd of about 500 armed white men had gathered at the armory of the Wilmington Light Infantry.”
—Bennett L. Steelman

Black, White, and Gray: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
by Bennett L. Steelman

Cape Fear Rising
by Philip Gerard

One of the Meanest Books: Thomas Dixon and The Leopard’s Spots
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Walter Hines Page: Editor, Publisher, and Enlightened Reformer
by James T. Rostar

The Marrow of Tradition: Charles Chesnutt’s Novel of the South
by Joyce Pettis

Yankee Writers in North Carolina

Reviews

Aesthetic Transport
a poem by MaryJo Mahoney

Yankee Writers in North Carolina: Literary Carpetbaggers?
by Robin Hemley

Biting the Hand
an essay by Richard Krawiec
Illustration by Paul Rustand

Sleeping Over
a story by Robin Hemley
Illustrations by Lee Misenheimer

Two Poems
by Joseph Bathanti
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief and Paul Rustand

In the Land of the Sky
a story by P.B. Parris
Illustrations by Joan Mansfield

The Turf of Hankering
an essay by Joseph Bathanti
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief

Two On Walking
a review by Phillip Manning and John K. Terres
Philip Manning, Afoot in the South: Walks in the Natural Areas of North Carolina
John K. Terres, From Laurel Hill to Siler’s Bag: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist

Pictures from a Lost World
a review by Tim Hampton
Morton I. Teicher, Looking Homeward: A Thomas Wolfe Photo Album

Bookmaking Made Beautiful
a review by F. Whitney Jones
Micheal McFee, To See
Shelby Stephenson, Plankhouse

Tenzing and Relaxing
a review by David R. Slavitt
A.R. Ammons, Garbage
James Applewhite, A History of the River

Rivers of Time
a review by Megan Simpson
James Applewhite, A History of the River
Joan Cockerel New, The River Bend

Changes in Latitude
a review by Lois Redmond
William J. Walsh, Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers