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Nature’s Original Inspiration

Friday from the Archives: “You Sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend” by Mark Ogilvie, from NCLR 11 (2002) 

Written By: Fall Intern Robert Miranda

Colley Reviews Newton

Saturday Review: “Untangling the Strings” a review by Sharon Colley of Heather Newton’s novel The Puppeteer’s Daughters (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025 

The Meaning of Work

Friday from the Archives: “Coffee to Go” memoir by Linda Flowers from NCLR 5 (1996)

“But now, young and old alike work at jobs having no particular value to themselves beyond their pay. My parents and I could see in every aspect of our lives the meaning of our work.”

Crowe Reviews Duncan

Saturday Review: “A Poetic Journey into the Appalachian Past” a review by Thomas Rain Crowe in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s poetry collection When Time Was Suspended 

Oxendine, Lowry: Lumbee or No?

Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine” an essay by Erica Abrams Locklear from NCLR 22 (2013)

Writers’ Resiliency

Graduate Student and Editorial Assistant Kenly Corya shares her uplifting experience at the NCWN Fall Conference.

Thomas Reviews Wallace

Saturday Review: “An Argument for Authenticity” a review by Elaine Thomas in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Daniel Wallace’s This Isn’t Going to End Well (2023)

Native Literature from before America

Friday from the Archives: “She Said That Saint Augustine is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600)” an essay by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley from NCLR 32 (2023)

Bailey Reviews Ballingrud

Saturday Review: “The Baroque Power of Nathan Ballingrud’s New Novella,” a review by Dale Bailey, forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novella Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024).