Contents—Number 11, 2002

Anniversary | Creative Writing | Food Finds
Book Reviews | NC Writers | Quotations
     

NCLR's 10th Anniversary

More quotations

An October Story from the Youth of Thomas Wolfe, by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton with LeGette Blythe
introduced by LeGette Blythe
Afterword: Thomas Wolfe's First "October" Fair, by James W. Clark, Jr.
   
John Lawson and the Warring Nations: A Meditation on Images of Terror and "The Other," by Marjorie Hudson
   
Two Conferences Honor the Legacy of John Lawson, Carolina's Gentleman Naturalist and Writer, by Marjorie Hudson
   
"You sang me a song, and I heard": The Song Behind a Wellman Legend, by Mark Ogilvie
   
White Heat in Wilmington: The Dialogue Between Journalism and Literature in The Marrow of Tradition, by Dolen Perkins
   
Adrift in the South, by Emil Willimetz
introduced by Mary Emma Harris
   
Women Writers of Black Mountain College, by Lois Carol Wheatley
   
"Out of all places, East Carolina": Talking with NCLR's Founding Editor, Alex Albright, an interview by Peter Makuck
   
Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999, by Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
photography by Rob Amberg
   
Sword Holes in the Sofa: Documenting the Autobiographical in Ross McElwee's Sherman's March,
by James H. Watkins
art by James Lancel McElhinney
   

Creative Writing

Morning Prayer, a poem by Susan Meyers
art by Betty Hendrix
   
Education South, a story by Paul Green
introducted by Laurence G. Avery
photography by Gary Weissman
   
Gift of Roses, a fantasy story by Fred Chappell
illustrated by Fritz Janschka
Afterword: Chappell's "Gift of Roses,": Something Old, Something New, by Patrick Bizzaro
   
Out of the Water, a poem by Yvette Neisser
art by Sahar Fakhoury
   
Playing Baby Dolls with the Girls, a story by Ruth Moose
   
Dining with Robert Redford, a story by Tammy Wilson
illustrated by Grey Blackwell
   
Odd-Patterned, a poem by Judith C. Beale
illustrated by Gary Weissman
Guitar Man, a play by Joanna L. Reed
illustrated by Shelton Bryant
   

Food Finds

Barbecue Culture Shock: Stamey's Barbecue, Greensboro, by Gwen Ashley Walters
photography by Kenneth Bennett
   
Short and Sweet: Pat's Soda Shop, Vanceboro, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   

Book Reviews

Civil War and Collateral Damage, a review of two North Carolina Post-Civil War novels, by Jerry Leath Mills
   
Murder and Mayhem, Gothic and Grotesque, a review of four recent North Carolina mysteries, by Donna Summerlin
   
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pagan, a review of a new novel by Black Mountain College alumnus Michael Rumaker, by Jeffery Beam
   
Three Tarheel Writers: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gallimaufry, a review of recent North Carolina memoirs, by Janet Lembke
   
Radio Writers, a review of two NPR collections, by James O. Chatham
   
The Code for Home, a review of two award- winning collections of poetry, by Jake Adam York
   

North Carolina Writers

The Snow L. and B.W.C. Roberts Collection of North Carolina Fiction, by Nancy P. Shires
   
NC Newsbriefs, by Melissa Edmundson
   
Speculative Fiction in North Carolina, an Addendum, by Celeste Pottier
   
Trinoc*con, by Dan Reid
   
"A good story well told": Robert Inman's Storytelling Journey, by Anna Dunlap Higgins
   
Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, A-M (addenda), by Lorraine Hale Robinson, with NCLR staff