“N.C. ranks third in the U.S. in hurricane landfalls. Though we often focus on landfalls on our coast, it’s important to note that all one hundred counties of our state are vulnerable.”
John Steen
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A Psychiatrist Turned Fiction Writer Connects Heart and Mind in “Every Human Love”
The backdrop of psychiatry allows Joanna Pearson to explore the fault lines that underlie personal and professional identity in contemporary America.
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Each Paragraph Is a Peculiar, Funny, Heartbreaking World in Amy Hempel’s Masterful Short Stories
Since her first collection of darkly humorous fiction in 1985, Hempel has been changing the short-story form—often, by abbreviating it.
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Family, Death, and Southern Exposure in Photographer Sally Mann’s Hold Still
SALLY MANN Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m., free–$19 Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill www.flyleafbooks.com Friday, May 20, 7 p.m., $5–$19 Meredith College’s Jones Auditorium, Raleighwww.quailridgebooks.com Internationally renowned photoggrapher Sally Mann stays close to home. Since the early 1980s, Mann has used her farm near Lexington, Virginia, as a home base for taking photographs and painstakingly developing […]
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A Raleigh Scholar Proves the Influence of Langston Hughes’s Poetry on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Rhetoric
W. JASON MILLER The Regulator Bookshop, Durham Tuesday, April 12, 7 p.m., free Langston Hughes is now most widely known in the context of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which draws its title from Hughes’s “Harlem.” The poem asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in […]