NCLR 2014 Contents

WAR IN NORTH CAROLINA LITERATURE

“After fighting, the scars remain”:
An Interview with Robert Morgan on His War Literature
by Rebecca Godwin

Accolades to Black Military Heroism and Fantasies
of Empire in James E. McGirt’s Writings
by John Gruesser

Writing the Great War: Ron Rash and Terry Roberts Discuss World War I, the North Carolina German Internment Camp, and the Historical Novel
an interview by Zackary Vernon

"the voice of the shipyard":
Arthur Miller in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1941
by David S. Cecelski

The Mayor of Biscoe
the 2013 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
by Claudette Cohen
art by Jonathan Bowling and Billy Lee

Black Mountain’s Post-Apocalyptic Civil War
in William Forstchen’s One Second After
by Kathaleen Amende
photography by Karen Neal

 

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past ISSUES

• Charles W. Chesnutt and the “province of literature,”
  by Paul Baggett

  Rain
  the 2013 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
  by Susan Laughter Meyers
  art by Leah Sobsey
  

  To Catch a Flight to Arkansas and Ringwood
  two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
  art by Edward T. Smith

  Performing the South: Lee Smith’s The Last Girls
  by Shirley A. Stave

  Images on Waking and Science Fictions
  two poems by James Applewhite
  art by Richard Fennell, Jeff Kiefer, and Barbara Morgan

  A Hero’s Erran(t)d: The Grotesque, Modern Parody, and Southern Identity in Michael Malone’s Handling Sin,
  by Jordan Stone
  art by Rich Powell
  

  Two Forms of Escape
  a poem by C.G. Thompson
  art by Leah Sobsey
  

  After Hours and Shaftesbury
  two poems by Fred Chappell
  art by Andrew Hayes

  Halloween’s Herald of Democracy:
  Allan Gurganus and the Horror Show of American Politics
  by Zackary Vernon

  Blanc
  a poem by Glenis Redmond
  art by Faustin Dumé and Edouard Duval Carrié

  Leaving My Mother at the Airport
  a poem by Debra Kaufman
  art by Linda Foard Roberts
  

North Carolina Miscellany

• Determining the Worth and Fox
  two poems by Hannah Bonner
  art by Clyde Edgerton

• Sakura
  a short story by Annie Frazier
  art by Ruth Asawa