This month, a blog post from one of our longtime editorial board members:
“I suspected that perhaps I was being made the butt of some Kafkaesque joke, but here I was, so I tapped on the door and was instructed by a voice brimming with barely suppressed laughter to ‘come on in.’”—George Hovis
NCLR will have a booth at the NCWN Spring Conference in Greensboro. And save the date: 5/13, Cherokee, NC: A Celebration of Cherokee writing from NCLR 2023
Saturday Review: “Poetry of Place” a review by Chris Abbate in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Forever Eighty-Eights (2022) by Molly Rice
Friday from the Archives: “Therese Anne Fowler and Maligned Women: Setting the Story Straight on Zelda Fitzgerald and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont” an Interview by Sheryl Cornett from NCLR 27 (2018).
Teaching Elaine Neil Orr’s Swimming Between Worlds Topics for class discussion GROUP DISCUSSIONS TEAM Tacker TEAM Kate
Saturday Review: “Writing The Hurt” a review by John Lang in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Charles Dodd White. A Year without Months (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “North Carolina’s Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore” by E. Thomson Shields from NCLR 13 (2004). By Amber Knox
NCLR has a table at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Say hello!
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…
Saturday Review: “To Love The South Surgically” a review by Zackary Vernon in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of The Late Rebellion (2024) by Mark Powell. “The Late Rebellion showcases Powell’s deep understanding of Southern cultures as well as his ability to distill the nuances of American life when everything around us seems precarious.”