The Cat’s Meow: Remembering the ’96 Issue
This week’s “Friday from the Archives” is dedicated to Bertie E. Fearing, founding associate editor of NCLR and her love of cats and literature.
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Last Review of the Year, First from Winter 2023 Online Issue
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
An Interview with Our Founding Editor
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
Review of New Collection by NCLR Poetry Editor
“Jeffrey Franklin still finds his figures of poet and homely muse in the fields and healing woods of North Carolina.”
“Christmas by the River” by James Applewhite
Applewhite poem “Christmas by the River” from NCLR 2003
Goldman is “In Search of Understanding”
“As she works through her memories of the past and her love for Mattie, Goldman asks, and answers, a number of smaller mysteries.”
A Not-so-secret from our Digital Editor
To a committed hard-copy-owning, dog-ear-marking, pencil-annotating bibliophile, there is nothing like a local independent bookstore.
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.”
“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.”