NCLR 2002

An October Story from the Youth of Thomas Wolfe
by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton with LeGette Blythe
introduced by LeGette Blythe

Afterword: Thomas Wolfe’s First “October” Fair
by James W. Clark, Jr.

John Lawson and the Warring Nations:
A Meditation on Images of Terror and “The Other”
by Marjorie Hudson

Two Conferences Honor the Legacy of John Lawson,
Carolina’s Gentleman Naturalist and Writer
by Marjorie Hudson

“You sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend
by Mark Ogilvie

White Heat in Wilmington:
The Dialogue Between Journalism and Literature in The Marrow of Tradition
by Dolen Perkins

Adrift in the South
by Emil Willimetz
introduced by Mary Emma Harris

Women Writers of Black Mountain College
by Lois Carol Wheatley

“Out of all places, East Carolina”:
Talking with NCLR’s Founding Editor, Alex Albright
an interview by Peter Makuck

Who is my Neighbor?:
Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999
by Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
photography by Rob Amberg

Sword Holes in the Sofa:
Documenting the Autobiographical in Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March
by James H. Watkins
art by James Lancel McElhinney

Morning Prayer
a poem by Susan Meyers
art by Betty Hendrix

Education South
a story by Paul Green
introduced by Laurence G. Avery
photography by Gary Weissman

Gift of Roses
a fantasy story by Fred Chappell
illustrated by Fritz Janschka

Afterword: Chappell’s “Gift of Roses”:
Something Old, Something New
by Patrick Bizzaro

Out of the Water
a poem by Yvette Neisser
art by Sahar Fakhoury

Playing Baby Dolls with the Girls
a story by Ruth Moose

Dining with Robert Redford
a story by Tammy Wilson
illustrated by Grey Blackwell

Odd-Patterned
a poem by Judith C. Beale
illustrated by Gary Weissman

Guitar Man
a play by Joanna L. Reed
illustrated by Shelton Bryant

Barbecue Culture Shock: Stamey’s Barbecue, Greensboro
by Gwen Ashley Walters
photography by Kenneth Bennett

Short and Sweet: Pat’s Soda Shop, Vanceboro
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Civil War and Collateral Damage
a review of two North Carolina Post-Civil War novels
by Jerry Leath Mills

Murder and Mayhem, Gothic and Grotesque
a review of four recent North Carolina mysteries
by Donna Summerlin

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pagan
a review of a new novel by Black Mountain College alumnus Michael Rumaker
by Jeffery Beam

Three Tarheel Writers: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gallimaufry
a review of recent North Carolina memoirs
by Janet Lembke

Radio Writers
a review of two NPR collections
by James O. Chatham

The Code for Home
a review of two award-winning collections of poetry
by Jake Adam York

The Snow L. and B.W.C. Roberts Collection of North Carolina Fiction
by Nancy P. Shires

NC Newsbriefs
by Melissa Edmundson

Speculative Fiction in North Carolina
an Addendum
by Celeste Pottier

Trinoc*con
by Dan Reid

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, A-M (addenda)
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
with NCLR staff

“A good story well told”: Robert Inman’s Storytelling Journey
by Anna Dunlap Higgins