Harrington Reviews Earle
Saturday Review: “Let Us All Be Happy” a review by Janis Harrington in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Ralph Earle’s poetry collection, Everything You Love Is New (2024)
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Sharing Stories and Aid After Natural Disasters
Friday from the Archives: “Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999,” essay by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and photographs by Rob Amberg from NCLR 11 (2002)
25 years ago Hurricane Floyd passed over Eastern NC and the after-flooding ravaged the state.
MacLeod Reviews McKenzie
Saturday Review: “North Carolina’s Own Otto Wood: Notorious Criminal and Treasured Folk Hero” a review by Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. In NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Trevor McKenzie’s book Otto Wood: The Bandit
Another early look at a review from the forthcoming Online Winter 2025 issue!
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.
NCLR Celebrates NC Book/Drama Awards
Join us for the NCLHA Awards in December.