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Current Issue Contents—Number 17, 2008 | Ordering the Current Issue North Carolina Humor: The Old Mirth State | Mirth Carolina Laugh Tracks: CDs |
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North Carolina Humor: 
Cover art by Dwane Powell |
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The "Inimitable Music" of Eastern North Carolina, Men Like White Elephants, a short story Desecration, a short story by Chris Brown Eggcorns, a poem by Catherine Carter By Numbers and Oh Man, two poems by Michael McFee Regarding the State Dog, a poem by Martha Owens Ruins of Time, an essay by Jerry Leath Mills Dog Drama, an essay by Jennifer McGaha Southwest Humor's Frontier Preacher: Hardin E. Taliaferro and Sketches from Fisher's River, Hardin Taliaferro, the Gentlest of Southwestern Humorists, by Jennings Mace Body Language and Satiric Portraits in Thomas Wolfe's The Party at Jack's, by John Idol, Jr. A "love of hopeless comedy": The Humor of Personal and Cultural Crisis in Allan Gurganus's Plays Well with Others, by Gary Richards States of Humor, a review of three poetry collections Not Always a "Piece of Cake": Harrowing Humor in the Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer, an interview Character, Myth, and the Southern Voice: We're Not in Hee-Haw Any More, a review by Felicia Mitchell The World that Kudzu Made: Working with Doug Marlette, 1993-2007, by Bland Simpson
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Safety Patrol Song, a song by Clyde Edgerton Nativity, Caucasian, a story by Allan Gurganus Some Strategies for Weathering This Storm of Approval, an essay by Barry Saunders The Ship Shape, an essay by David Sedaris Whose Idea Was This?, a song by the Coastal Cohorts, Bland Simpson, Jim Wann, and Don Dixon Baloney Bacon and Beer, a song by Clyde Edgerton Hidden Meanings, Treatment of Time, Supreme Irony, and Life Experiences in the Song "Ain't Gonna Bump No More No Big Fat Woman," a story by Michael Parker Older People in Cars, from Lunch at the Piccadilly, an excerpt by Clyde Edgerton Your Husband Is Cheating on Us, a story by Jill McCorkle Sound Side, a song by the Coastal Cohorts, Bland Simpson, Jim Wann, and Don Dixon
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Vision, a short story by Liza Wieland Pompey's Knob, a poem by Susan Meyers "getting dirty and working hard to find the story": An Interview with Kerry Madden, by Angela Leeper "finding your voice…[is] like falling in love: when it happens, you know it": An Interview with Louise Shivers, by Maryscot Mullins Shelton Laurel, an essay by Ron Rash "a wanderer on the earth" and "a son of the community": Place and the Question of Queers in the Rural Souths of Lee Smith and Randall Kenan, by Harry Thomas Geography for Writers, an essay by Lee Zacharias |
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Distance, the 2007 Doris Betts Prize story, Five Is Red, the 2007 Betts 2nd place story, Myfanwy and the Gargoyle, a poem Poem for Buck Owens and Coal Twilight, two poems The River's Embrace, a short story by Michael Chitwood Mississippiensis and the Happiness of Thoreau, an essay by Chris Morgan Great Ecology Tour, an essay by Laura L. Mays Hoopes 2-East at Midnight, a poem by Marty Silverthorne |
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Three Optimists, a review of three poetry collections, Life as We Experience It, a review of five poetry collections, by Al Maginnes Basketball and Other Matters of Transcendent Importance, a review of two memoirs, by James Kirkland Justice Systems, Haunting and Broken, a review of two novels, by Rebecca Godwin Rural and Urban Rites of Passage, a review of two YA Novels, by Laureen Tedesco Grace, Myth, and Invention, a review of three novels, NC Newsbriefs, by Susan Winders Moses Writing for the Reader, a review of Louise Hawes's new short story collection, by Sally F. Lawrence Three New Books on Thomas Wolfe, by Wiley Cash NCLR Founders Awarded for "Literary Inspiration," remarks by Margaret D. Bauer Happy Trails, a review of a new North Carolina literary reference, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
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Margaret Bauer, Editor | NCLR | Department of English | East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27858-4353 | (252) 328-1537 | BauerM@ecu.edu
Harriot College of Arts and Sciences | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association