A Frank and Open Willingness
Friday from the Archives: “That’s How We Learn”: Ben Fountain Talks With Student Veterans At ECU” compiled by Anna Froula with Sheena Eagan from NCLR 31 (2022)
News
NC Poetry Society Meeting includes Green Performance Poetry
Our winners perform at the NC Poetry Society Fall Meeting on Sept 14 in Asheville.
Kesler reviews Duncan
Saturday Review: “Reflections on Self and Family” a review by Jon Kesler in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s novel All We Have Loved (2023)
Fielding Dawson’s “High Energy Dynamism”
Friday from the Archives: “What I Learned at Black Mountain – More!” essay by Fielding Dawson from NCLR 6 (1997)
NCLR Staff Expands with New Managing Editor
Lyra Thomas joins the staff of NCLR as the first Managing Editor. They will also work in the ECU English Department as a Teaching Assistant Professor, teaching a variety of writing courses.
Trzepacz reviews Bare
Saturday Review: “Amethyst Eyes” a review by Abby Trzepacz in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Micki Bare’s novel Blind Fairy (2023)
Brains, Heart, and Courage: Martin Gardner
Friday from the Archives: “Martin Gardner: North Carolina’s Historian of Oz and Annotator of Alice,” interview by Mark I. West from NCLR 10 (2001)
Coby reviews Ballingrud
Saturday Review: “Adventures, Entrepeneurs, and Scoundrels” a review by Jim Coby in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novel The Strange (2023)
Ground(ed) in Purpose: Ron Rash in Appalachia
Friday from the Archives: “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia” by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell from NCLR 19 (2010)
Monday Memories: NCLR Students Past and Present
Prepping for this interview, I had perused my bookshelves thinking, Now which of these Southern writers are from North Carolina? Then I grabbed a slim volume by Fred Chappell to read on the plane…