Margaret D. Bauer reintroduces one of Paul Green's best plays, The House of Connelly, the first play performed (on Broadway, in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. In so doing, Bauer also perhaps reintroduces the playwright himself, famous and well respected in his day, but largely forgotten today, except for his outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony, which continues to be performed every summer in Manteo, North Carolina. Green's The House of Connelly is a more traditional drama, comparable to the writing of Tennessee Williams, and Bauer asserts that this play is as good as...

The 2017 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review features North Carolina literature and the other arts. It opens with an essay on the opera adaptation of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. In another essay, Randall Wilhelm examines the literature and art pairings in the NCLR. The creative writing includes poetry by Betty Adcock, James Applewhite, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, and the winner and finalists of the 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition; fiction by Michael Parker and Anita Collins, winner of the 2016 Doris Betts Fiction...

Presents a collection of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by North Carolina writers, as well as interviews, articles, and essays about the state's authors, literary history, and writing culture. A cross between a scholarly journal and a literary magazine, NCLR has won numerous awards and citations.