Reviewer Heather Bell Adams says about his latest novel that “The reader is invited to speculate about the source of Connor’s discontent by assembling pieces of the puzzle from artfully arranged vignettes told in Whisnant’s crisp, muscular prose.”
After winning the National Book Award for his 2021 novel Hell of a Book, it’s likely safe to say Mott himself is one of those blistering voices.
“Powell’s descriptions of place are quite lyrical. He obviously knows the landscape he gives us
in western North Carolina and southern Virginia. He has a way of taking the readers right to the spot and immersing us in the culture, landscape, and people.”
March 2, 2023: Voyages of Discovery series presents NC Author Jason Mott
Announcing the winners of two honors given for content in our issues: the John Ehle Prize and the Randall Kenan Prize.
“You have to travel, even if it’s only for two days a week or two days a month. You have to go away to get some contrast and a sense of who you are, where you are, and where the rest of the world is.”
“…sometimes I relish my screening role: I really don’t need to make a firm decision between two poems, for example. I can send both.”
“Erica Plouffe Lazure could write about anything. She could capture any time, place, person. That she chose to write about people in North Carolina is a gift…”
In NCLR Issue 13, published in 2004, professor Christina Bucher examined the poetry Murray wrote and published. Specifically, Bucher provides a scholarly look at the protest poems found in the singular volume published in 1970,
The North Carolina Literary Review releases its 2023 Winter online issue.