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)
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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.
Addressing the Magical Realism in Fred Chappell’s I Am One of You Forever
“I assigned Fred Chappell’s I Am One of You Forever in a college-level Introduction to Literature course. We discussed the book over the course of three or four class periods. Students seemed to be most interested in discussing the weird uncles and the other supernatural elements…”
Celebrate the 2023 Issue in Asheville!
Join us in Asheville in October!
Colley reviews Smith
Saturday Review: “Lee Smith Goes To Key West” a review by Sharon E. Colley of Silver Alert (2023) by Lee Smith.
Glory and Trouble: Hughes in Chapel Hill
Friday from the Archives: “A Week or 3 Days in Chapel Hill: Faulkner, Contempo, and Their Contemporaries” by Jim Vickers from NCLR Issue 1 (1992)
In honor of the upcoming presentation “Langston Hughes 1931 Visit to Chapel Hill” at the Chapel Hill Library and sponsored by Carolina Public Humanities, we are sharing this week what was written about that very visit in our first issue from 1992.
2023 Doris Betts Fiction Competition
The North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for the 2023 Betts Fiction Competition from Sept 15-Oct 31.
Broadening Representation in High School Lit
Teaching Tuesdays: “Reading Jill McCorkle’s Ferris Beach” by Barbara Bennett, from NCLR Issue 15 (2006)
In her college courses where she teaches future teachers, Bennett looks for new material to add to the bibliography of traditionally-used literature in high schools.