Contents—Issue Number 7, 1998

Oral History in North Carolina | The Fiction of Fred Chappell | Glider
Poetry and Prose | Book Reviews | North Carolina Writers       

Oral History in North Carolina

Blazing Star, a story by Lee Smith
photographs by Jay Kranyik
    
"Wonderful Terms and Phrases": Contrasting Dialect in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Lee Smith's Oral History, by Kelvin Massey
    
"The Story Will Feed Us": The Power of Story in the Career of Donald Davis, by Anna Dunlap Higgins
    
"I Got These Hands Dirty Saving a Life": Oral Histories of Three African-American North Carolina Physicians, by Karen Kruse Thomas
    
Edward Diggs and Desegregation of the UNC Medical School, by Karen Kruse Thomas with Glenda Jakubowski
    
Wesley Critz George: Scientist and Segregationist, by Steven Niven
    
Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers, by Lu Ann Jones
    
"A Little Baby-Snatchin' Now and Again": Oral Narratives from North Carolina Midwives, by Patricia Gantt with Lorraine Hale Robinson
    
The Carolinians of Cherokee Sound: Cultural and Linguistic Connections between North Carolina and the Bahamas, by Marvin W. Hunt
photographs by Glenn E. Lewis
    
The North Carolina Connection in Cherokee Sound, by Walt Wolfram and Jeremy Sellers
    
Review of Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Scholling-Estes, by Jeutonne Brewer
   

The Fiction of Fred Chappell

The Tipton Tornado, a story by Fred Chappell
illustration by Alice Olgesby
    
"Flying by Night": An Early Interview with Fred Chappell, by David Paul Ragan
    
Irony and Allegory in I Am One of You Forever: How Fantasy and the Ideal Become the Real, by Sally Sullivan
    
Fred Chappell as Magic Realist, by Hal McDonald
Excerpt from I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
Illustrated by Alice Oglesby
    
Intimations of Order: Fred Chappell's More Shapes Than One, by John Lang
    
"Citizens Who Observe": A Conversation with Fred Chappell, by Sally Sullivan
   

Glider

The North Carolina Studies Program at East Carolina University, by A. Brandon Mise with Stephanie Russell
   

Poetry and Prose

Inheritances, an essay by Jeffe Kennedy
    
Wednesday Night and The Three-Period Lesson at Le Cirque du Bout du Monde, two poems by Poetry Editor Julie Fay
art by Henry Stindt
    
In Country Graveyards and The Laugh, two poems by Michael Chitwood
photograph by W. Cameron Dennis
illustration by Alice io Oglesby
    
Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean and Interstices and Protuberances, two poems by Kathleen Halme
art by Claude Howell
    
Starlight, a poem by R.T. Smith
photography by Mary Thiesen
    
Grandmama Dressing, a poem by Maggie Miles
illustration by Alice Io Oglesby
    
Bargain with Transcendence and Brightness Falls
two poems by Robert Hill Long
   

Book Reviews

First Book on Doris Betts Published, a review of Elizabeth Evans's Twayne United States Author Series volume on Doris Betts, by Dorothy M. Scura
    
The Fiery Soul of the (Extra)Ordinary, a review of Lee Smith's new short story collection, by Tanya Long Bennett
    
Family, Faith, and Myth in Listre, North Carolina: Clyde Edgerton's Return to Familiar Places and Themes in Where Trouble Sleeps, a review by Stuart Harris
    
"loneliness, sexuality, and desire" in Carolina, a review of Lawrence Naumoff's A Plan for Women, by Kristina Knotts
    
"In what place is this cloud of presences stored?": James Applewhite, Robert Hill Long, and the Questioning of History, a review by Curt Rode
    
"A Map Made Close By Looking," a review of Peter Makuck's Against Distance, by Marc Hudson
   

North Carolina Writers

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Hay to Hymen, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
    
NC Newsbriefs