The new issue of NC Literary Review will be out at the end of this month. Here is a list of contents for our Appalachian feature. A reception will be held at Malaprop's Bookstore on August 14. Please join us.
Margaret Bauer, Editor
NORTH CAROLINA APPALACHIAN LITERATURE
The Land Breakers, a novel excerpt by John Ehle art by Will Henry Stevens
"wonderfully simple, yet complex": The Mountain Novels of John Ehle, by Terry Roberts art by Will Henry Stevens
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Love Affairs and Family Feuds in the Smoky Mountains, an Ehle review by Jonathan Yardley
Lion on the Hearth, a novel excerpt by John Ehle
Cry Naked, Purple Hands, Dew, and Listening to Clouds, four poems by Robert Morgan art by Will Henry Stevens
Robert Morgan’s Peripheral Vision: "the point beside the point" in The Hinterlands, by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt== photography by Horace Kephart
As If She Listened, a poem by Laurence Avery photography by Horace Kephart
"We’re still here": Eddie Swimmer on Cherokee History, Life, and Outdoor Drama in the Appalachian Mountains, an interview by Gina Caison
The Gathering, a poem by Joyce Compton Brown
"what I feel I was put on the planet to do": An interview with Wayne Caldwell, by Jerry Leath Mills
Looking Back into the Undergrowth, a review of Wayne Caldwell’s two novels, by Chris Green
Ron Rash’s Serena and the "blank and pitiless gaze" of Exploitation in Appalachia, by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell photography by Horace Kephart
"Look here, world, look who this woman [is]": Silas House Interviews Pamela Duncan, introduced by Joyce Compton Brown
Drought Days, a poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer art by Noyes Capehart
Hook and Eye, a short story by Kathryn Stripling Byer photography by Rob Amberg
Mountain Tunes and Tartini Violin Concertos, a review of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s new novel, by Mae Miller Claxton
Into a Strange Country, a review of Tony Earley’s Jim sequel, by Tim Edwards art by Will Henry Stevens
Praise Poem for Our Mountains, a poem by doris davenport photography by doris davenport
Resplendent, Ingenious Forms, a review of Fred Chappell’s new poetry collection, by John Lang art by Will Henry Stevens
The Poetry of Southern Appalachia, a review by Jeffrey Franklin photography by Rob Bousa
Sorry, a poem by Michael McFee art by Will Henry Stevens
Controlled Burn, a short story by Charles Dodd White photography by Rob Amberg
A Cozy Conspiracy, a review of Kenneth Butcher’s The Middle of the Air, by Brett Cox photography by Rob Amberg
Breaking Line, creative nonfiction by Christopher Wrenn photography by Rob Amberg
Blind Faith, the 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story, by David McGuirt
