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 the Past

• 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