I knew that NC had a bunch of authors: my parents went to high school with Allan Gurganus, actually, and I’d spent enough time in and around Hillsborough and Chapel Hill to have bumped into a few other well-known names. But I’ve learned why NC earned the moniker of “The Writingest State”…
Saturday Review: “Long Roads and Tall Pines” a review by Rebecca Duncan in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
Marjorie Hudson. Indigo Field. (2023)
Susan O’Dell Underwood. Genesis Road. (2022)
The North Carolina Literary Review 2024 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize will open for submissions January 15th.
Friday from the Archives: “The Land Always Calls to Its Own”: The Inglis Fletcher Papers”
by Maurice C. York from NCLR 1993. The first class of awards included such luminaries as Paul Green, Frank Borden Hanes, Hugh F. Rankin, and Inglis Fletcher.
Saturday Review: “Translating The Mysterious” a review by Robert M. West of
Michael McFee’s A Long Time to Be Gone (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
Friday from the Archives: “Window in Winter Light” a poem by Robert Hill from NCLR 25 (2016).
An elegant poem as winter draws in.
Professor Jane Haladay will give the Eutsler Lecture in Children’s Literature at 3:00, followed by a pedagogical workshop at 5:00 (reception in between).
Friday from the Archives: “Collard-Kraut and Blueberry BBQ: Discovering Vivian Howard’s Corner of the South” an interview and essay by Sally F. Lawrence from NCLR 27 (2018). Since this week is all about food here in the USA, we’re pulling out a piece about one of North Carolina’s recent foodie favorites.
Saturday Review: “Clarity, Consolation, and the end to Definition” a review by David E. Poston in NCLR Online Fall 2023.
Wild Liar (2023) by Deborah Pope
Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence (2023) by Katherine Soniat.
Friday from the Archives: “Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, Writer” by Marjorie Hudson from NCLR 1 (1992).