North Carolina Literary Review | 2003 Issue

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Contents—Number 12, 2003

Anniversary of the First Flight | Flashbacks | Creative Writing | Food Finds
Book Reviews | NC Writers

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First Flight: Aviation in North Carolina Literature and Letters		Gliding into a New Era Cover Story: First Flight, Photo Finds, and Friendship, by Lorraine Hale Robinson Son of a Gun, Sky-high: Clyde Edgerton on Flying, an interview by Tonita S. Branan Soaring on "words of living flame": Flights of Narrative Fancy in Clyde Edgerton's The Floatplane Notebooks and In Memory of Junior, by Tim Edwards A Fictional Flight "First"—Set in North Carolina, by Lorraine Hale Robinson "living deeper into matter": Robert Frost's "Kitty Hawk" and the Creation of Nature, by William Scott "I pay my part for Lafayette and Rochambeau": North Carolina's Lafayette Escadrille Pilots, by Melissa Edmundson "the pilot sleeps": Randall Jarrell's Wartime Flight Poems, by Maryscot Mullins Alone in the Air, an essay by James Chris Wise "the desire to fly faster, farther, and higher": Amelia Earhart Remembered, by Heather M. White and Lu Ann Jones
Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues		Look Homeward, Angel: Of Ghosts, Angels, and Lostness, by Elizabeth Spencer Introduced by Terry L. Roberts Pictures for Words: Douglas Gorsline's Illustrations for Look Homeward, Angel, by Timothy A. Riggs
Creative Writing		River-Ruin, The Vanished Farmhouse, Christmas by the River, Fall Will, Looking Up from the Woodland Clearing, and Ceremony at Heroes' Square, six poems by James Applewhite photography by Jean-Luc Scemama, Joseph Smooke, and Jan G. Hensley The Warehouse 1970, 7240 Wrightsville Causeway, and Not Quitting the Choir, three poems by Robert Hill Long photography by Ryan Blake Webb Country Place, Requiem, and Legacy, three poems by Bill Griffin photography by Jacquelyn Leebrick Okra Stew and A Left at Clara's Rock, two poems by Kelly K. Hamilton photography by Gilbert Leebrick The Least Dread, a story by Dale Neal illustrated by Rochelle E. Johnson Explosions, a story by Amy E. Weldon illustrated by Whitney Preslar Into the Wind, a story by Stacey Cochran illustrated by Natalia Moroz Solitaire, a story by Vicki Moreland illustrated by Elizabeth McRorie Canton Hybrids, a poem by Sally Molini photography by Joseph Smooke Wedding Belles, a story by Melissa Hardy illustrated by Jennifer Vivekanand
Food Finds		Hillbilly Hideaway, Stokes County, by Virginia Gunn Fick A New Voyage to Carolina: Dining at Windmill Point Restaurant, Nag's Head, by Lorraine Hale Robinson Fish Stews, Pitt County, by W. Keats Sparrow
Book Reviews		Finding Our Way Through Fear and Remembrance, a review of new short fiction collections by Jill McCorkle and Allan Gurganus, by Christina G. Bucher The High Cost of Being Human, a review of Peter Makuck's Costly Habits, by Michael Parker What Lies Beneath: Myth, Memory, and Obsession, a review essay on new novels by Mark Powell and Pamela Duncan, by Paula Gallant Eckard Souls on a Wire: Technology and the Search for Connections, a review of Wendy Brenner's Phone Calls from the Dead, by Mary Carroll-Hackett Obsession and Loss: New Works on Roanoke and the "Lost Colony," a review essay by E. Thomson Shields, Jr. Humor, History, and Family, a review of Hunter James's The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork, by Gretchen Martin
North Carolina Writers		The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame and a Literary Historian's Perspective: An Interview with James W. Clark, Jr., by Lisa Morgan photography by Jan G. Hensley Like A Brother: Profile of a Literary Friendship, an interview with Tim McLaurin and Clyde Edgerton by Sheryl Cornett Tim McLaurin: Fayetteville, December 14, 1953 – Morehead City, July 12, 2002, a remembrance by Jerry Leath Mills "To walk these hills": Poetic Inspiration for Appalachian Poet Hilda Downer, by Anna Dunlap Higgins Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Nash to Proffitt, by Lorraine Hale Robinson NC Newsbriefs, by Celeste Pottier NCLR Celebrates 10th Anniversary photography by Ryan Webb

Margaret Bauer, Editor | NCLR | Department of English | East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27858-4353 | (252) 328-1537 | BauerM@ecu.edu

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