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In his 1935 novel Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe wrote, “October had come again, and he would lie there in his mother’s house at night, and feel the darkness moving softly all about him, and hear the dry … Read more
In a Southern Cultures essay published in 2000, Jerry Leath Mills came up with a “single, simple, litmus-like test the quality of southerness in literature . . . Is there a dead mule in it?” We were curious if Mills’s … Read more
Join us in the Hitchcock Room at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center as we welcome Monique Truong back to the Old North State. Her lecture is titled "Writing Plenty / Writing Hunger / Writing North Carolina." The talk will begin with … Read more