Since the 1993 publication of In the Walled City, his first book of short stories, Stewart O’Nan has published roughly a book a year, making him one of America’s more productive writers. He has also been lauded as one of America’s most talented, named in a list of Best Young Novelists by Granta magazine. A […]
Kathy Roberts Forde
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Song of the Third Floor
The UNC hospital campus is a vast canvas of asphalt, buildings, cars and construction–a surprising gray expanse in the otherwise green landscape of Chapel Hill. In the midst rises the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital. To the casual observer, it is monolithic, but to many patients and families who spend time within its walls, it is protean, […]
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The politics of language, landscape and Lumbee identity
I spent a recent Sunday morning tracking the Lumber River in southeastern North Carolina, following the natural boundary it carves between Scotland and Robeson counties. After driving the length of Riverton Road, I stopped the car on the Old Wagram Highway bridge and stood in the rain, watching the black water flow slowly among fallen […]