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Tews reviews Mahler

Saturday Review: “Finding The Place” a review by Jamie Tews in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Kristine Langley Mahler’s novel Curing Season: Artifacts (2022)

Freedom of Speech: Books

Friday from the Archives: “Banned Anything Good Lately?” by Gene D. Lanier from NCLR 1 (1992)

Gene Lanier, an professor of Library and Information Science at ECU, wrote three “Freedom of Speech” columns for three early issues of NCLR: “Banned Anything Good Lately?” in 1992, “Who Knows What You’ve Been Reading?” in 1993, “Is Hate a Family Value?” in 1995.

Adams reviews Lucas

Saturday Review: “They’re Doing Everything They Can, Everything They Know To Do” a review by Heather Bell Adams in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Meagan Lucas’ story collection Here in the Dark (2023)

Community Action in Gastonia

Friday from the Archives: “Resisting Being Written Out of History: Women Activists and Recorders of the 1929 Gastonia Strike” by Walter Squire from NCLR 9 (2000)

Our First Editors’ Meeting

Almost all (we missed Dana and Jeff!) of the current editorial staff gathered at Editor Margaret Bauer’s home near ECU this past week to finally meet each other in person!

Clark reviews Barbee and Loderstedt

Saturday Review: “About Their Business, Two Contrasting Poets” a review by Jim Clark in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Sam Barbee’s poetry collection Apertures of Voluptuous Force (2022) and Michael Loderstedt’s poetry collection Why We Fished (2023)

Carter reviews Kirkpatrick

Saturday Review: “Help From Unexpected Quarters” a review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s poetry collection The Fisher Queen: New and Selected Poems (2019) by Catherine Carter in NCLR Online Spring 2024