NCLR Receives TWO Grants
North Carolina Literary Review gratefully announces receiving two grants toward community engagement from two prestigious state-wide funders
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Remembering Mark Smith-Soto
Friday from the Archives: “Last Retreat to Topsail Island” by Mark Smith-Soto from NCLR 22 (2013). We at NCLR were saddened to learn of the passing of long-time friend and poet, Mark Smith-Soto, early in November.
NCLR returns to SAMLA in 2023
Our 2023 and 2024 Feature Editors will be at SAMLA 95!
Knotts reviews Faladé
Saturday Review: “A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of David Wright Faladé’s Black Cloud Rising (2022)
A Bifurcated Existence: Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
In this article from NCLR’s 2015 issue Rachael Price analyses Monique Truong’s novel Bitter in the Mouth and the difficulties that the main character, Linda, faces growing up and discovering her own identity in what at first appears to be a conventional Southern family.
Meet NCLR staff at NCWN Fall Conference
Join Editor Margaret Bauer and Digital Editor Devra Thomas at the North Carolina Writers’ Network fall conference in Charlotte, NC THIS WEEKEND.
Clark reviews Maginnes
Saturday Review: “On the Bus with Al Maginnes” a review by Barbara Bennett of Fellow Survivors (2023)
Halloween with Allan Gurganus
Friday from the Archives: “Halloween’s Herald of Democracy: Allan Gurganus and the Horror Show of American Politics” by Zackary Vernon from NCLR 2014 Recently the… Read More »Halloween with Allan Gurganus
Teaching Randall Kenan:
“The students produced over eighty single-space pages of notes, conversation, analysis, and insight. At sixty thousand words, they had written a book. And because our class read all of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury their Dead, and If I Had Two Wings, they were often writing about stories that have been slighted or ignored by other literary critics.”
Capelli reviews Herman and Holderfield
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)