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Anxiety, Grief and Other Invisible Illnesses in YA Fiction

By: Nancy H. Williard February 20, 2020July 12, 2021

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North Carolina teens bond through their mental health journeys in Nora Shalaway Carpenter’s “The Edge of Anything.”

History of an Executioner by Clancy McGilligan

Inside the Mind of an Executioner

By: Aram Mrjoian February 19, 2020July 12, 2021

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Clancy McGilligan on his debut novella, “History of an Executioner.”

“Barn 8” Is a Clever, Rural Spin on “Ocean’s 8”

By: Patrick Willwerth February 19, 2020July 12, 2021

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Egg auditors plan a heist to steal a million chickens in Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel.

North Carolina’s Forgotten Race Massacre

By: Nikki Leahy February 18, 2020July 12, 2021

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“Wilmington’s Lie” revisits the state’s white supremacist violence of 1898.

Our Hopes for the Southern Review of Books at Queens

By: Queens MFA February 17, 2020February 23, 2020

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Our wish for the Southern Review of Books is for it to be an extension of what we strive for at Queens.