Good morning, readers.
The INDY has a special summer reading issue out for you today, and I’m not talking about the kind of summer reading issue my English teacher said I had when I turned in an incoherent essay on In Cold Blood, a book I still have yet to read, on the first day of 10th grade.
You can rest assured that the writers who contributed book reviews, author Q&As, and other reading-related content to the INDY this week did their due diligence, and then some:
In a rigorous preview of Carrboro author Joanna Pearson’s debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark, which deals with a murder on a college campus, INDY arts & culture editor Sarah Edwards gives us a master class in writing on writing.
Edwards articulates Pearson’s strengths as a composer before stepping back to digest the work in the context its pitfall-plagued genre: True-crime fiction has been “distinctly shaped by racist and misogynistic tropes,” Edwards writes, but when handled responsibly, it “offers space for dark topics that don’t always see the light of day: power, predation, domestic abuse.”
Elsewhere in the issue, contributing writers weigh in on new releases from three other NC authors; INDY reporter Justin Laidlaw talks with the author and historian Scott Ellsworth about what went into crafting The Secret Game, a book about the groundbreaking 1944 basketball game between an all-Black team from North Carolina Central University (then known as the North Carolina College for Negroes) and an all-white team of Duke University medical school students; and INDY intern Avery Sloan takes a trip to Durham’s hottest new “introvert happy hour:” the Silent Book Club at Letters Bookshop.
Read all of our special issue coverage online or find a print edition.
Have a good Wednesday.
—Lena
Editor’s note: The weather forecast in yesterday’s Daily was incorrect.
Durham
Durham’s teachers’ union, the Durham Association of Educators, scored a big win in the county budget, but a new fight with the school board over a meet-and-confer policy is just heating up.
Wake
Two LGBT-owned businesses in downtown Raleigh are fostering community as the city grows.
Orange
The Orange County Schools Board of Education is pausing its efforts to create a new redistricting plan for the district’s elementary schools for the next school year.
Carrboro is considering charging money for hundreds of parking spots in its downtown.
North Carolina
As the war in Gaza continues, Jewish Democrats, including NC gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein, are navigating a divided coalition.
Today’s weather
Sunny with a high of 100 degrees.
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