In this review by Robert West from 2021, he says about Flynn’s last book, The Skin of Meaning: “In other words, if you’re looking for neoclassical argument, dry stand-up comedy, or inspirational pablum, look elsewhere.”
Friday From The Archives: “Big Fish: The Myth and the Man” by Barbara Bennett from NCLR 2019 Online
Authors glean inspiration for their stories from all kinds of places. In Daniel Wallace’s latest, the memoir This Isn’t Going To End Well, his inspiration is his late brother-in-law. In this piece from 2019, Barbara Bennett takes us down a different road, seeing where mythology and storytelling served as inspiration for Wallace’s first novel, Big Fish.
So it’s fitting that Coby starts his review with “Michael Parker is a master at forming engaging, thought-provoking, and all around remarkable characters.”
Friday from the Archives: “Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart” by Sara Whitestone from NCLR Issue 21 (2012) “We don’t know who might need our creations. We don’t know who needs them for food, for medicine, or for kinship.”
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya is an Indigenous artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo tribes. She earned a BFA in printmaking… Read More »Drumroll, please . . . the 2023 cover in all its glory
Two years later, this beautiful issue has come together, and it is both what I imagined and different than what I imagined. Some pieces I solicited never came to fruition, and I received others that left me in awe of their brilliance.
“The last stanza likens women’s roles to a patchwork quilt: “The responsibility of being Native woman was placed upon / Her shoulders at birth, / Blanketed – like a patchwork quilt – around her body”
Come see NCLR staff at the North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference in Greensboro on April 22.
These panels engaged with scholars and community members and stirred up much excitement for NCLR’s 2023 issue.
Friday from the Archives: “The last ghost is always the lies that are told”: An Interview with Khalisa Rae Thompson by Maia L. Butler from NCLR Issue 31 (2022)
This week, we are continuing highlighting performance poetry for our first annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Contest.