NCLR 2012 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina Literature into Film

cover photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone

NCLR 2012 Press Release [PDF]

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Pushcart Nominations

James Applewhite
Charles Frazier
Jim Grimsley
Glenis Gale Redmond
John Thomas York

Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Thomas Wolf

“preserving the heart of [the story]”: Adapting North Carolina Literature for Film

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“Don’t expect to read of these writers’ frustration over filmmakers ‘ruining’ their work; as Ellyn Bache says, ‘They can’t ‘ruin’ your book; the book is there. You can still read the book.’ Rather, you will read of their appreciation of the hard work involved in creating this other medium for their stories.”

A Degree of Commitment
an essay by Charles Frazier

“The Lost Colony Film”: A Mixed Message of Violence and Peace
an essay by Larry E. Tise
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Finding “The Lost Colony Film”
by Tom Whiteside

Black and White
a poem by James Applewhite
art by Paul J. Hartley

Paul Green and the Movies
an essay by Laurence G. Avery

A Hotel Tower Above Oahu
a poem by James Applewhite
art by Paul J. Hartley

Thomas Dixon, Filmmaker
an essay by Anthony Slide
Read the first page here. [PDF]

The Case of the Missing Interracial Romance: An Ideological Critique of Kiss the Girls
an essay by William B. Hart
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Kiss the Girls’ Allusion to D.W. Griffith’s Whitewashed Captivity Narrative
by Anna Froula

History v. Hollywood: Civil Rights Meet Silver Screen; or, “writing history with lightning”
an essay by Timothy B. Tyson
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Discovering the Story: A Film Adaption of Randall Kenan’s “The Foundations of the Earth”
an essay by Elisabeth Benfey
Read the first page here. [PDF]

In the Same Gesture
an essay by Jim Grimsley

A “passionate need to write”: An Interview with Ellyn Bache
by Christy Alexander Hallberg
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Writing Books that Hold Up, from Pay Phones to Cell Phones:
An Interview with YA Suspense Novelist Lois Duncan
by Valerie O. Patterson

“reflections on a screen”: John Ehle and Film
an essay by Terry L. Roberts
and an alternate ending to The Changing of the Guard
by John Ehle
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Ten North Carolina Stories that Ought to Be Films
an essay by George Hovis

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

Returning Writers, Returning Genres

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“In between Parker and Applewhite, Paul Crenshaw hearkens back to the special feature topic of last year – Environmental Writing. The author brings us to a river in his own neighborhood, where he takes his daughters and where they are certainly developing their own imaginations.”

Wind and Water: Marrying Fact and Fiction in The Watery Part of the World
an essay by Michael Parker

Gently Down the Stream
an essay by Paul Crenshaw

Picnic on the Waters
a poem by James Applewhite
art by Bob Rankin

North Carolina Miscellany

Fond Farewells and Other Miscellany

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“Read the inspiring interview with Zelda Lockhart in this section, and writers, be reminded that you can write anywhere. You just have
to make time to do it, to “integrate writing into [your] everyday life,” she says. Motivated by Zelda’s advice and encouragement, please send what you write to NCLR.”

The Collector: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Stuart Wright Exhibit, Shining In and Out of Darkness, The Collector, and Latecomer
an essay and three poems by Fred Chappell
Read the first page here. [PDF]

Stuart Wright: The Collector
by Thomas E. Douglass

Whip-poor-will
a poem by Robert Penn Warren from the Stuart Wright Collection
art by A.R. Ammons

Nighthawks
a poem by John Thomas York

Lamp, the first James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by John Thomas York
art by Isaac Talley

Boundaries, the 2011 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
by Thomas Wolf
art by Richard Garrison

The Month of Janus and Time Pieces
two poems by Mark Smith-Soto
art by Bob Trotman and Barbara Fisher

Perspective
a poem by C.G. Thompson
art by Jane Filer

Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart
an interview by Sara Whitestone
an essay and three poems by Fred Chappell
Read the first page here. [PDF]

If Not Birds Dodging Loneliness and Anointed Yet Badly Blessed
two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Stephen Aubuchon

Carolinese
a poem by Glenis Gale Redmond
art by David C. Driskell

The Honey Wagon, the 2nd place story in the 2011 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition
by Joseph Francis Cavano
art by Donald Furst

A Blessing on the Tongue
a poem by Valerie Nieman
art by Bridget Conn

Forty Years Later
a poem by Debra Kaufman
art by Diana H. Bloomfield