For the last Saturday Review in 2022, here is the first of the reviews forthcoming in the Winter 2023 online issue, due out in February:… Read More »Last Review of the Year, First from Winter 2023 Online Issue
Friday from the Archives: Read an interview with NCLR‘s Founding Editor Alex Albright in the 2002, 10th anniversary issue. Read the first page here. Buy… Read More »An Interview with Our Founding Editor
“Jeffrey Franklin still finds his figures of poet and homely muse in the fields and healing woods of North Carolina.”
Applewhite poem “Christmas by the River” from NCLR 2003
“As she works through her memories of the past and her love for Mattie, Goldman asks, and answers, a number of smaller mysteries.”
To a committed hard-copy-owning, dog-ear-marking, pencil-annotating bibliophile, there is nothing like a local independent bookstore.
“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.”
“The Best of Me demonstrates emphatically that David Sedaris relishes placing Homo sapiens beneath the proverbial microscope.”
“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.”
We published Susan O’Dell Underwood’s review of the winning book, In the Lonely Backwater, as part of our fall issue online.