Contents—Issue Number 9, 2000

Other Voices and Genres | The 100th Birthday of Thomas Wolfe
     Poetry and Fiction  | Book Reviews  | North Carolina Writers  |  Gliders      

Other Voices and Genres

The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of "Old Silenus" to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper, by Richard Rankin
   
"If he eats me, he surely can't swallow me": Separate Spheres and Subversion in the Folk Plays of the Carolina Playmakers, by Kecia D. McBride
   
The Dramatic Topography of Paul Green, a review by Dwight Watson
   
Resisting Being Written Out of History: Women Activists and Recorders of the 1929 Gastonia Strike, by Walter Squire
   
Union Organizing in Folly Forces Attention to Issues of Gender and Race, a review by Mary Kathryn Thornton
   
A Hopeful Outlook in Hope Mills, a review by Mary Kathryn Thornton
   
Tar Heel Tunes, North Carolina Recording and Record Production, by Michael "Lightnin'" Wells
art by Richard Garrison
   
Chewing the Fat with a Blues Master: An Interview with Lightnin' Wells, by Jeff Franklin and Christopher Salerno
photography by Jaime Konarski
   
Reconstructing Hemingway: An Interview with Biographer Michael S. Reynolds, by James Plath
   
"Hearing Me Into Speech": Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina, by Wynn Cherry
   
Look at What Happened Here: North Carolina's Feminary Collective, by Tamara M. Powell
   
Some Day, a short story by Catherine W. McCall
art by Joan Mansfield
   
Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley's Gothic Gospel, by Ed Madden
photography by W. Cameron Dennis and Mary Thiesen
   
Home for the Holidays, a review of Jim Grimsley's Comfort and Joy, by Gary Richards
   
Taproot & Cradle, a poem by Khaled Mattawa
art by Joan Mansfield
   

The 100th Birthday of Thomas Wolfe

A Daughter Remembers: Margaret Roberts and Thomas Wolfe, by Martha Morgan
   
(Un)Blest Be the Ties that Bind: The Dysfunctional Family in Look Homeward, Angel and The Great Santini, by John Idol
   
A Tribute to Wolfe, a poem by Robert Morgan
photography by Ruth Winchester Ware
   
   

Poetry and Fiction

Customs and Heart Sutra #6, two poems by Debra Kang Dean
art by Olivia Gatewood
   
Rebecca Boone, a poem by Ron Rash
art by Jean Bouquet
   
In Defiance, a poem by Jane Sasser
photography by Jaime Konarski
   
New Man on the Docks, a poem by E.M. Schorb
photography by Jaime Konarski
   
The Jumping Off Place, a short story by David C. Dickson
photography by Charles R. Ewen, I. Randolph Daniel, Jr., and Mary Thiesen
   
An Office Romance, a short story by Matthijs Schoots
art by Janet Darby
   
Sweater Weather, a short story by Andrew Walters
art by Janet Darby
   

Book Reviews

Call Me Hartley, a review of Allan Gurganus's Plays Well with Others, by Jeff Abernathy
   
Turn! Turn! Turn!: Intersections and Mutualities, a review of Gail Godwin's Evensong, by Kerstin W. Shands
   
Tim McLaurin and the Narrative-Dramatic Poem, a review of Lola, by Jerry Leath Mills
   
Creatures That Make Us Shudder: A Collection of Essays by Janet Lembke, a review of Despicable Species, by Robin Springer
   
Weighing Down Life with Facts, a review of Gwendolyn Parker's Trespassing, by Angeli R. Rasbury
   

North Carolina Writers

John Foster West: An Appalachian Legend, by Anna Dunlap Higgins
   
Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Lacy to Mathabane, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   
NC Newsbriefs
   

Gliders

Food Finds: Gary's Bar-B-Cue, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   
In Memory of Linda Flowers, by John Patterson