NCLR Online 2012 Contents

North Carolina Literature into Film

The Theatre and the Screen
an essay by Paul Green
introduced by Margaret D. Bauer

Border Crossings
a poem by C.G. Thompson
art by Ben Isburg

Last Night We Saw South Pacific and Joan Crawford and Others
two poems by James Applewhite
art by Paul Hartley

My Film Biz Blues
an essay by James Dodson

Just an Overnight Guest, from Book to Film
an essay by Eleanora E. Tate

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

• Pamlico River, January Farmhouse, and Greene County Pastoral
  three poems by James Applewhite
  art by Bob Rankin, Tony Breuer, and Richard Garrison

• Celebrity Watchers
  Tamra Wilson, “Dining with Robert Redford” and Other Stories
  a review by Amanda Stevens
  illustration by Grey Blackwell

• Race in the American South
  Clyde Edgerton, The Night Train
  a review by Jeff Abernathy

  Flash’s Mama
  by Clyde Edgerton

  My Brother, Last Radiation Treatments
  a poem by Susan Laughter Meyers
  photography by Stephen Aubuchon

  Dark and Light -- and Wonderment
  Ron Rash, Waking
  a review by Susan Laughter Meyers

  Ron Rash, Childhood Friend, Runner, and . . . Recipient of the 2011 North Carolina Award for Literature
  by Cindy Putnam-Evans

  Contemporary Carpetbaggers Calling Carolina “Home”
  Marjorie Hudson, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas
  Valerie Nieman, Blood Clay
  a review by Erica Plouffe Lazure

  On the Beach
  a poem by Valerie Nieman
  art by Claude Howell

  Reports from Underground
  Minnie Bruce Pratt, Inside the Money Machine
  a review by Deborah Hooker

  2011 NC AAUW Award:
  Gloria Houston, Miss Dorthy and Her Bookmobile
  
  Taking the Long Way Home
  John Hart, Iron House
  a review by Art Taylor 

  Lost Colony Veteran William Ivey Long: Third
  Hardee Rives Dramatic Arts Award Recipient

  Celebrating Bland Simpson: 2011 Recipient of the Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
  presentation remarks by Jerry Leath Mills

 

North Carolina Miscellany

• The Fish Boy
  a poem by John Thomas York
  art by Jane Filer

  Four for the Bookshelf, Four for the Future
  Peter Makuck, Long Lens
  Heather Ross Miller, Lumina: A Town of Voices
  David Rigsbee, The Red Tower
  Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices
  a review by Al Maginnes

  Heartbreak and Humor
  Timothy McBride, The Manageable Cold
  a review by Peter Makuck

  Dorianne Laux Receives 2011 Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
  presentation remarks by Michael McFee

  Person, Place, Thing, or Idea: Reading the Past in Three North Carolina Set Historical Novels
  Steve Berry, The Jefferson Key
  Michael Parker, The Watery Part of the World
  Laura S. Wharton, The Pirate’s Bastard
  a review by Matthew Luter

  Parker Receives Parker Award
  presentation remarks by Margaret D. Bauer
  Addendum
  acceptance remarks by Michael Parker

  “dreams of the Good and the killers of the dream”
  Anna Jean Mayhew, The Dry Grass of August
  a review by Christina Bucher

  2011 Ragan Old North State Award
  presentation remarks by James W. Clark, Jr