Bennett reviews Frazier
Saturday Review: “The Forgotten South, Remembered” a review by Dale Neal of Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks’ Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession (2021)
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Clyde Edgerton is ’23 Caldwell Recipient
Friday from the Archives: “Renaissance Man: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton” by George Hovis, from NCLR Issue 26 (2017) Congratulations to the renowned author, professor, musician, and artist Clyde Edgerton on being the 2023 Caldwell Award Recipient from NC Humanities
Building the Black Community in Rural Jackson County, NC, from Civil War to Civil Rights
“The core of What a Wonderful Life This Could Be is humanity’s need for the safe harbor and connection of love – for community and purposeful vocation and for some form of family, even if not biological.”
North Carolina Humanities’ John Tyler Caldwell Award Lunch
Join us in Asheville in October to celebrate Clyde Edgerton and receive a free back issue of NCLR featuring an interview with the Calwell Award honoree AND a CD that includes a reading and 2 songs by him.
Absher reviews Bathanti and Mills
Saturday Review: “Moving Bodies, Healing Places” a review by J.S. Absher
Joseph Bathanti. Light at the Seam (2022)
Joseph Mills. Bodies in Motion (2022)
“Where heads and hearts meet”: Oral History Teacher Project
Friday from the Archives: “Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers” by Lu Ann Jones from NCLR Issue 7 (1998) To honor Fred, Margaret, and all the teachers in all of our issues, we are highlighting Jones’ article about her class using oral history techniques to document teachers’ stories from across the state.
Neal reviews Flynn and Weeks
Saturday Review: “The Forgotten South, Remembered” a review by Dale Neal of Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks’ Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession (2021)
Nothing Dull in Dorfman’s Desert
Friday from the Archives: “Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman” by Robert Siegal, introduced by Stuart W. Sanderson, with Lorraine Hale Robinson, from NCLR Issue 13 (2004) We would love to have more writings by and about Hispanic and Latinx North Carolina authors.
Kesler reviews Gutierrez
Saturday Review: “A Port of Despair” a review by Jon Kesler of Michael Keenan Gutierrez’s The Swill (2022)
Gutierrez’s The Swill “captures the gritty feel of a place and point in time.”
Wolf Wins Betts Prize Twice
Friday from the Archives: “Distance” the 2007 Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner by Thomas Wolf from NCLR Issue 17 (2008) plus “Boundaries” from 2012.