Lit Local

Without context, sunlight rolling over the fuselage of a banking airplane is beautiful.

The 44-year-old artist passed away from an apparent heart attack Aug. 12, a shock to his many friends and fans.

When my professors introduced me, it was always, 'Her parents are missionaries, but she's not like that,'" Jeffries says.

The trouble with America, the reason so many of us feel so strung-out so much of the time, is that our optimism drives us to think that perfect happiness and untold riches lie just out of our grasp...

Guy lived and respects his generation's self-regarding struggle—in order to ferret out and approach the grief, it had to be exhaustively discussed and objectified—and his books are frank but ultimately clement records of it.

Declaring Indianness is just as much a part of black American culture as it is for the majority's, partly due to real intermixture: Some recent large-scale DNA testing suggests that today's African-Americans typically have 14 percent European and 3 percent native genetic material.

Winston-Salem writer Kathy Norcross Watts may be a newly published book author, but she's no stranger to writing.

Few regions are as rich in literary tradition as the American South.

Bland Simpson didn't start out to write a series of books on the life and history of North Carolina's sound country; it just sort of happened that way.

What makes a story interesting? Is it character, plot, setting? Or is it the creation of a world unique to that story, ruled by its own internal logic and full of its own possibilities?