NCLR 2013 Contents

North Carolina:
A state of change, a changing state

Temperate Air, Requisite Care
an essay by Bland Simpson
photography by Rob Amberg, David Blevins, Steve Exum, Ann Cary Simpson, and Scott Taylor

Genre Conventions with a Half-Twist:
An Interview with Charles Frazier
by Margaret D. Bauer

The Evolution of a Genre: Literary Historical Fiction
by Margaret D. Bauer

Persistence, Nighttime Scribbles, and A Successful Debut Novel: An Interview with Anna Jean Mayhew
by Christina G. Bucher

Carolina Outlier: An Interview with María DeGuzmán
by Joan Conwell
photography by María DeGuzmán

Last Retreat to Topsail Island
the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by Mark Smith-Soto
art by Luis German Ardila

A Cuban in Mayberry
an essay by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Everyone Is Some Kind of Animal
a short story by Daniel Wallace
art by Bob Trotman

“the seen and the unseen”:
An Interview with Wiley Cash
by George Hovis
photography by Rob Amberg

 

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past ISSUES

• Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine
  by Erica Abrams Locklear

  Only Yonaguska
  the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize 2nd Place poem
  by Laurence G. Avery
  art by Lloyd Carl Owle

  For Henry, 1937-2001; Reading the Science News; Hemlock Hill; and Written Beside Bass Lake
  four poems by James Applewhite
  art by Hanna Jubran, Seo Eo, and Bob Rankin

  As It Happens . . .
  poetry and prose by Fred Chappell
  art by Katie Claiborne and Rebecca Fagg

  “The Way Movies Tell Stories”: Putting Charles Frazier’s Furniture into Anthony Minghella’s Rooms
  NCLR Editor Margaret D. Bauer Interviews Charles Frazier
  photography by Phil Bray and Annie Frazier

  Jake Mills, My Old Friend
  a remembrance by Bland Simpson

North Carolina Miscellany

• “It didn’t sell much”: The Publishing Struggles of Novelist Turned Newspaperman James Ross
  by Anthony Hatcher

  Little Girlfriend
  the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize Honorable Mention poem
  by Grace Cloris Ocasio
  art by Romare Bearden

  The Saint
  the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
  by Leah Hampton
  art by Jennifer Bueno