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number 18 2009
NORTH CAROLINA DRAMA

cover design Dana Ezzell Gay
cover photography
Mary Shannon Johnstone

"With the theme of North Carolina drama and a redesign, the Review steps to center stage as the most handsome such publication in the state." — Charles Wheeler, Greensboro News & Record

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number 18 2009 CONTENTS

NORTH CAROLINA DRAMA

“[What] the American Public Needs”:
A Theater of the People,”
an interview
with Paul Green by William Howard Rough

White Dresses, a play by Paul Green
introduced by Margaret D. Bauer

Paul Green’s Legacy, an essay
by Laurence G. Avery

Kermit Hunter’s Treasure in the High Country, by Nancy Spann

Finding Clara, excerpts from a play
by June Guralnick

Dramatic Renderings of the 1929 Loray
Mill Strike
, an afterword by Walter Squire

Recovering “moral and sexual chaos”
in Tennessee Williams’s
Clothes for a
Summer Hotel, by Annette J. Saddik

An Inimitable Icon: The Inspiration
of Zelda Fitzgerald
, by Olivia Everett

North Carolina Literary and Historical Association Announces Newly Established Hardee-Rives Drama Award, by Lorraine
Hale Robinson

Muscle Men, Tennessee Williams, and the State of Southern Drama: An Interview with Jim Grimsley, by Gary Richards

Mr. Williams and Mr. Universe:
Jim Grimsley’s Queer Intertextuality
,
by Gary Richards

20th Southern Writers Symposium Celebrates North Carolina Writers,
by Rebecca L. Godwin

Waiting for Edward: Elizabeth Spencer’s
For Lease or Sale, by Terry Roberts

A Shining Light in the Piazza,
by Gary Richards

An Elizabethan Drama, an afterword
by Elizabeth Spencer

Lovers, a play by Richard Krawiec
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick

Husbands Found Dead, a play by Kat Meads
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick

Love Poem, Ignition Switch, and Responsibility, three plays by Sam Post
photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone

Child of Paradise: A Tribute to Linwood Taylor, by Bland Simpson

Drama Dean Gerald Freedman Receives
a North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
,
by Maggie Rogers

Adventures in Musicians’ Theater: 35 Years of Roots-Music Shows, by Bland Simpson

“Oh, but she speaks her mind”:
Good Ol’ Girls from Stage to Screen
,
by Olivia Everett

Bo Knows Theater and Dancing
(and . . . ),
a tribute by Sue Laslie Kimball


FLASHBACKS:
ECHOES OF PAST ISSUES


North Carolina’s German Literary Heritage:
A (Still, Small) Voice Waiting to be Heard
,
an essay by M. Luther Stirewalt, Jr.

Attic Archives and Homegrown Literary
Treasures
, introduced by Olivia Everett

The Substitute, a poem by James Magorian
art by James Lancel McElhinney

Coup, a poem by Michael White

  NORTH CAROLINA MISCELLANY

Working with the Wiggle
, an interview with
Betty Adcock, by James Smith

Two Poems with One Epigraph, Aegean
Notes
, and White Rhinoceros, three poems
by Betty Adcock

Slantwisdom, a review by Robert West
of Betty Adcock’s new poetry collection

To Tell, Not To Tell, To Tell It Slant?,
a review by Catherine Carter of three
new poetry collections

Shape Notes, a poem by Marty Silverthorne
art by David Terry

The State of Poetry in North Carolina,
a review by Jeffrey Franklin

“An Appalachian-in-Exile”: Michael Chitwood Receives a Second Roanoke-Chowan
Award for Poetry
, presentation remarks
by Michael McFee

English Leather Lime, a poem
by Julia Nunnally Duncan
art by Duy Huynh

James Applewhite Inducted into the
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
,
presentation remarks by Rebecca L. Godwin

A Tribute to Doris Betts, Recipient of
the 2008 Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
, presentation remarks
by Maurice C. York

The Whales Moved On, the 2008 Doris Betts Prize story, by Malcolm Campbell
art by Mike Hoyt

Have You Seen Me?, the 2008 Doris Betts
2nd place story, by Gregg Cusick
photography by Louanne Watley

“I am not Kitty Duncan”: Two Interviews with Kat Meads, by Margaret D. Bauer
and Liza Wieland

William Conescu: Writing Life as it Happens,
an interview by Louisa J. Dang

Gothic Realism in Reynolds Price’s Kate Vaiden, by Peggy Dunn Bailey

Literary Inspiration Award to Honor Reynolds Price, by Elizabeth Howland

Crimes Close to Home, a review by Art Taylor of John Hart’s North Carolina mysteries

Two North Carolina Awards for Literature
in 2008, by Maggie Rogers

The Bible Salesman and the Magician,
a review by George Hovis of novels
by Clyde Edgerton and Daniel Wallace

Virginia “Exile” Lee Smith Inducted into
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
,
presentation remarks by Lucinda H. MacKethan

Three Women Writers: Breaching Boundaries to Create New Realities
, a review by Joyce Compton Brown


A Place of Oaks and Bells: The Hutchinson
Building at Mills Home, 1946–1948
, an essay
by D. Allen Carroll

Four New Contributions to Thomas Wolfe Studies, a review by Wiley Cash, with an
In Memoriam

Historian William Stevens Powell Inducted into North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame,
presentation remarks by Jerry Cashion

High on the Hog, a review by Jerry Leath Mills of Holy Smoke

2008 R. Hunt Parker Award Goes to
John Ehle
, presentation remarks by
Rebecca L. Godwin
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