Psst. Hey kid! Wanna get some free magazines? Wanna read some of the best magazine articles of the year? For free? C’mere. I’ll set you up. You can tell your friends, too. But first, two awards shows get my undivided attention each year. Utne Magazine rolls out their Independent Press Awards nominee list at the […]
John Valentine
Bio: John Valentine lives in Hillsborough, where he's written about life on and off the farm for more than two decades.Email: [email protected]
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Dave Cook
These are the longest days of the year. We find all kinds of reasons to stay outside in the twilights of June: gardens, sidewalks, woodsy paths and lightning bugs beckon. Animals are friskier. There’s no better time to be in nature than around the summer solstice. One late spring walk changed Dave Cook’s life. Remembering […]
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Zinestream
It’s not just a coincidence that May Day starts this wonderful cusp-of-summer-liberation month of May. May is that most fertile month of self-expression. We break out, we reach out, we move on. I mean, you just don’t hear much talk of January Day or September Day, do you? Locally and nationally, May magazines have been […]
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Two roads diverged
On a gorgeous, bright, windows-open, radio-blasting, Carolina afternoon last week, there I was bouncing down the highway off to pick up my daughter at soccer practice. Up ahead, through the pollen haze, loomed a lumbering yellow orange bus. Not an ordinary bus. This bus looked like Ken Kesey’s Further, the travel choice of the Merry […]
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Reading the fine print
Reading local campus news releases is sometimes like attending a love-in. On or offline news service publications read like academic People magazines. In Raleigh, you can pick up a copy of N.C. State BulletinOnline, while at Carolina, faculty and staff glean goodies in the University Gazette. No harm, no foul. Lots of good news about […]
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Deborah Pope
“Thus must it always be we learn what we love by what we lose,” offers Deborah Pope in “The Last Lesson,” a poem in her series The Angel Poems. Reading Pope, or better yet, hearing her read, is a reflective, tender, even intimate experience. In person she’s witty and charming, courteous to her audience and […]
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Spring brings plenty of local lit and wit
Spring’s here, the future’s bright. Seems like the whole Triangle has been setting type, banging with Photoshop, and keeping it real, in a good print-media way. Daylight Magazine is gorgeous. Just eight by eight, perfect for your backpack, but designed for your living room, this magazine has the classic look of an early DoubleTake. Co-editors […]
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Katherine Applegate
Her bestselling young adult series, Animorphs, has sold 40 million copies and has been translated into 21 languages. She’s the author of over 150 books; one recent fall she had three books in the USA Today Top 200 Best-Selling Books. Katherine Applegate and her husband, Michael Reynolds moved to Chapel Hill last year with their […]
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Bookin’ it
As usual, books by local authors made the New York Times bestseller lists. As usual, books by local authors were optioned and made into movies. As usual, books by local authors won national awards. We’re the lucky ones. As sure as Duke in the Final Four and a mega-mall opening at your favorite intersection, our […]
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Bookin’ it
As usual, books by local authors made the New York Times bestseller lists. As usual, books by local authors were optioned and made into movies. As usual, books by local authors won national awards. We’re the lucky ones. As sure as Duke in the Final Four and a mega-mall opening at your favorite intersection, our […]
