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Smith reviews Rash

Saturday Review: “And We Are Here, Right Here” a review by Jimmy Dean Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Ron Rash’s novel The Caretaker (2023)

Japanese-American-Carolinian-Californian

Friday from the Archives: “Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina” an essay by Elena Tajima Creef from NCLR 14 (2005) “I begin to understand that in the end, the only things any of us can ever really leave behind for one another are the stories of our lives.”

Summer Reading Happened So Fast

I don’t know what made me grab Dawn Shamp’s 2008 novel _On Account of Conspicuous Women_ from the shelf where it was lying down among other books too tall for the height of the bookshelves.

Wilson reviews Boyles

Saturday Review: “Debut Novel By Carolina Newcomer Offers Thrill Ride” a review by Henry L. Wilson of Bark On by Mason Boyles (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Turner reviews Mustian

Saturday Review: “Swamp Girls In Trouble: Class, Race, and The Patriarchy In The Prohibition-era South” a review by Dennis R. Turner, Jr. of The Girls in the Stilt House. by Kelly Mustian (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Cherokee Celebration on May 13

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Join us for a celebration of the ’23 issue with authors Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Mary Leauna Christensen in Cherokee, NC!

Colley reviews Tucker

Saturday Review: “Tripping on the Twelve Steps” a review by Sharon Colley of Bewilderness by Karen Tucker (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024