Beadle reviews Emerson
Saturday Review: “Fruit of the Vine: Poems to Savor and Sustain,” a review by Michael Beadle of Claudia Emerson’s ungrafted (2024), in NCLR Online Spring 2026
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“The Last Sleep” by Jill McCorkle
Friday from the Archives: “The Last Sleep” a story by Jill McCorkle inspired by The Last Sleep by George Cochran Lambdin in NCLR 1997
Happy belated Birthday to Jill McCorkle!
Godwin reviews Wood
Saturday Review: “First in Flight: The Woman Behind the Wright Brothers,” a review by Rebecca Godwin of Tracey Enerson Wood’s Katharine, the Wright Sister: A Novel (2024), in NCLR Online Spring 2026
“America, I Sing Back” by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Friday from the Archives: “The Change; America, I Sing Back; Putting Up Beans; and Off-Season”
four poems by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke in NCLR 2020
Award-winning poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, of our Appalachian mountains, was interviewed for our 2020 “Expat Writers” feature.
Hans reviews Gulledge
Saturday Review: “Gulledge’s Love Letter” a review by Shelby Hans of Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea by Jim Gulledge in NCLR Spring 2026
What Writers Do
Friday from the Archives: “Imprinted with Place: A Conversation at Home with James Applewhite” interview and photographs by Rob McDonald
To lightly adapt a saying: “You can take the author out of North Carolina but you can’t take North Carolina out of the author.”
Neill Reviews Harris
Saturday Review: “Inheriting Emotional Repression: Love, Loss, and Legacy,” a review by Sterling Neill of Terah Shelton Harris’s Long After We Are Gone in NCLR Online Spring 2026
1898 to 1901 to 1994 to 2026
Friday from the Archives: “The Marrow of Tradition: Charles Chesnutt’s Novel of the South”
by Joyce Pettis in NCLR 1994
Add Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition to your America 250 Summer Reading list.
Beach Read Season Is Upon Us
“These are also the rich experiences that I want to bask in, that NC literary contributors like Sheryl and Emily and Jennifer recognize and appreciate and pour into their writing, both fiction and nonfiction.”
Cory reviews York and Kirkpatrick
Saturday Review: “Learning to Listen in Western North Carolina,” a review by Jessica Cory of John Thomas York’s The Charge (2024) and Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s Creature (2025), in NCLR Online Spring 2026.