NCLR Online 2014 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: War in North Carolina Literature

cover design by Dana Ezzell Gay

NCLR Online 2014 Press Release [PDF]

Introducing the Third Issue of NCLR Online

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Wherever the fighting may be, the effects can be felt throughout the state, from the military installations across North Carolina to the hometowns (and homes) of the troops and their families.”

“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die”
an excerpt from A Short Time to Stay Here
by Terry Roberts

The Circuit Rider in a Sable Suit
John Milliken Thompson, Love and Lament
a review by Alison Arant

The Great War Inspires Two Great Novels

Constructive Remorse
Gail Godwin, Flora: A Novel
a review by Peggy Dunn Baily

Ragan Old North State Award for Civil War–Era Biography

Economy
creative nonfiction by Kelly Clancy
photography by Hans Curt Pfalzgraf

Uranium Field
creative nonfiction by Jen Julian

Flashing onto the Scene
Katey Schultz, Flashes of War
a review by Ron Jackson

Of Lions and Sparrows
a short story by Seth Peavey
art by George Scott

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

section int roduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Edito r

“In the Flashbacks section . . . you will find material about and by writers featured in previous issues, including an essay by Michael McFee remembering Doris Betts and their shared appreciation of a book by Randall Jarrell.”

For Doris
an essay by Michael McFee
art by Maurice Sendak

Hanging on by a Thread
Doris Betts, The Scarlet Thread
a review by Tara Powell

We Are All in It
an essay by Fred Chappell

A Last Glimpse of the Traveler
a poem by Fred Chappell

A Poem Has Happened Here
Susan Laughter Meyers, My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass
a review by Fred Chappell

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Former NC Poet Laureate Receives Second Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award

To Catch Big Fish: Advice from the Poet and No Ordinary Birdsong
two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Ray Elmore

Guests on Earth, Eternal Strangers, and Lost Souls
Lee Smith, Guests on Earth: A Novel
a review by John Hough, Jr.

Attend the Tales of Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus, Local Souls
a review by Gary Richards

The End Before the End
Jill McCorkle, Life After Life
a review by Barbara Bennett

2013 NC AAUW Award

“The clock is ticking”
Robert Inman, The Governor’s Lady
a review by Anna Dunlap Higgins

Samm-Art Williams Is the Fourth Recipient of the Hardee Rives Dramatic Arts Award
award presentation remarks by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Blue Bottles
a poem by Glenis Gale Redmond
art by Vollis Simpson

“The Cruel Radiance of What Is”
Jeffrey Beam, The Broken Flower: Poems
Keith Flynn, Colony Collapse Disorder
a review by Jim Clark

Odds Favor At Random
Lee Zacharias, At Random
a review by Tanya Long Bennett

Mystery Writers Receive NC Literary Awards

It’s Complicated
Dale Neal, The Half-Life of Home
a review by Sharon E. Colley

Myers Park Misery
Wilton Barnhardt, Lookaway, Lookaway
a review by Jim McGavran

Words, Water, Wonder
Philip Gerard, The Patron Saint of Dreams and other Essays
Philip Gerard, Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina
a review by Brian Glover

Savoring the Literary Landscape of Eastern North Carolina
Georgann Eubanks, Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson
photography by Donna Campbell

Available Beauty
a poem by Robert M. Wallace
art by Kenneth Noland

North Carolina Miscellany

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Now more than ever, North Carolina is finding its way into literature that stretches beyond the state’s borders.”

The Water Calls You: An Interview with Anjail Rashida Ahmad
by Amber Flora Thomas
photography by Dale Foshe

Honeysuckle and It Must Be All Right
two poems by Joan McLean
art by Linda Andrea Fox

Soul-Making Short Fiction
Rebecca Lee, Bobcat and Other Stories
Peter Makuck, Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories
a review by Kristina L. Knotts

Near Matter and the Distant Stars
Kathy Ackerman, Coal River Road
Beth Copeland, Transcendental Telemarketer
a review by Susan Laughter Meyers

The Milk of Adversity: Three Books of Memory and Loss
Lee Ann Brown, Crowns of Charlotte: NC Ode
Terry L. Kennedy, New River Breakdown
Tom Lombardo, What Bends Us Blue
a review by Valerie Nieman

Another Ending for Aphrodite
a poem by Hannah Bonner
art by Eduardo Lapetina