Still Distinctive Island Reading
“I can’t help but think that this must be a fine life – a bookstore with sunshine lighting up the fresh flowers on an island with some of the best beaches on the eastern seaboard.”
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“A Study of the Human Animal”: Nixon reviews Sedaris
“The Best of Me demonstrates emphatically that David Sedaris relishes placing Homo sapiens beneath the proverbial microscope.”
Music and Memory in Hedge Coke’s Art
“It is a poet’s place to bring truth and to question injustice, to be troubadour and truth-teller while calling for deeper witnessing and realizing what is here, now. It is our duty.”
A Review of the 2022 Sir Walter Raleigh Award Winner
We published Susan O’Dell Underwood’s review of the winning book, In the Lonely Backwater, as part of our fall issue online.
Re-assembling the Wilmington Coup story
In her article about Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 fictional account of the events, Perkins wrote Chesnutt’s work is like”…the method by which an artist or other type of historiographer attempts to re-assemble the pieces of stories that have been lost within the maze of politically motivated “historical” accounts.”
“Sound and Sense Take Flight” in Beam poetry
“Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements is a rich collection of poetry, visual art, and music that transcends customary boundaries between aesthetic discipline.”
Giving Tuesday 2022
A donation or gift subscription make a great gift for that “reader who has everything” in your life.
In NC, Writing Is Our Front Porch
We have the utmost gratitude for all those who share their stories with us. But like others, we do sometimes wonder just why there are so many writers here.
On the Subject of Thanksgiving
“Carrying on with the theme of gratitude, I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the writers who’ve contributed book reviews to the journal through the years…”
“Understanding Present Through the Past”: a review of Gerard’s Civil War compilation
Moser draws the reader’s attention from The Last Battleground straight through to Gerard’s award-winning book Cape Fear Rising.