Hans reviews Gulledge
Saturday Review: “Gulledge’s Love Letter” a review by Shelby Hans of Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea by Jim Gulledge in NCLR Spring 2026
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What Writers Do
Friday from the Archives: “Imprinted with Place: A Conversation at Home with James Applewhite” interview and photographs by Rob McDonald
To lightly adapt a saying:… Read More »What Writers Do
Neill Reviews Harris
Saturday Review: “Inheriting Emotional Repression: Love, Loss, and Legacy,” a review by Sterling Neill of Terah Shelton Harris’s Long After We Are Gone in NCLR… Read More »Neill Reviews Harris
1898 to 1901 to 1994 to 2026
Friday from the Archives: “The Marrow of Tradition: Charles Chesnutt’s Novel of the South”
by Joyce Pettis in NCLR 1994
Add Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow… Read More »1898 to 1901 to 1994 to 2026
Beach Read Season Is Upon Us
“These are also the rich experiences that I want to bask in, that NC literary contributors like Sheryl and Emily and… Read More »Beach Read Season Is Upon Us
Cory reviews York and Kirkpatrick
Saturday Review: “Learning to Listen in Western North Carolina,” a review by Jessica Cory of John Thomas York’s The Charge … Read More »Cory reviews York and Kirkpatrick
Pitch and Timbre, Syntax and Rhythm
Friday from the Archives: “The “Inimitable Music” of Eastern North Carolina” an essay by Michael Parker with photography by Joshua Tyler Rivenbark in NCLR 2008… Read More »Pitch and Timbre, Syntax and Rhythm
West reviews Brantley-Newton and Myers
Saturday Review: “Stories of Self-Acceptance,” a review by Mark I. West of Vanessa Brantley-Newton’s Becoming Vanessa (2021) and Maya Myers’s Not Perfect (2024), in NCLR… Read More »West reviews Brantley-Newton and Myers
Reynold Price’s Writing Instruction
Friday from the Archives: “Radio Writers: a review of two NPR collections” by James O. Chatham in NCLR 2002 Hard to believe we only have… Read More »Reynold Price’s Writing Instruction
Shields reviews Domina
Saturday Review: “History, Memoir, and Novel,” a review by E. Thomson Shields, Jr. of Approaches to Teaching Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave… Read More »Shields reviews Domina