Friday from the Archives: “Not since Wilma Dykeman’s Tall Woman (1962) has a Southern Appalachian novelist focused with such intensity on the often unrecognized strength… Read More »The Unrecognized Strength of Appalachian Women
Saturday Review in 2022: During this Women’s History Month, read Mark West’s review of Alicia D. Williams’s children’s books inspired by Zora Neale Hurston and… Read More »A review of Alicia D. Williams children’s books
Friday From the Archives: Read some of the introduction to June Guralnick‘s play Finding Clara, set during the 1929 Gastonia Milll Strikes (it is Women’s… Read More »Finding Clara: Women’s History Month
Saturday Review in 2022: For this first posting in March, Women’s History Month, read Jimmy Dean Smith’s review of Vicki Lane’s historical novel And the… Read More »A review of Vicki Lane’s historical novel
Friday from the Archives: it’s Women’s History Month. Find Ashley Burge’s essay on Harriet Ann Jacobs in NCLR 2019 (with art by John Biggers)
Saturday review in 2022: Read this review by Grace C. Ocasio of poetry collections by Maureen Kadish Sherbondy and Pat Riviere-Seel.
This Friday from the Archives is George Hovis’s interview with North Carolina’s beloved Randall Kenan.
Saturday Review in 2022: Read Jessica Martell’s review of new Popcorn Sutton bio.
In this Friday from the Archives read the introduction to Gina Caison’s interview with Eddie Swimmer about the outdoor drama Unto These Hills in NCLR… Read More »Eddie Swimmer’s Unto These Hills
Saturday Review in 2022: Read former NCLR student staff member Max Kilgore’s review of Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn.