Two books take on the changing state of the Outer Banks.
Wiley Cash
Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels and the founder of This Is Working, an online creative community. He’s been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and he teaches fiction writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their daughters.
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Stamped from 1898
The New Hanover County School Board is debating whether to remove the book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.
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On Storms and Stories
What draws us to write about hurricanes? This month’s books column surveys some recent fiction on storms.
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Where We Write
Sometimes to write about the people and places we love most, we have to get away. Chapel Hill fiction writer Daniel Wallace learned that when he set out to write This Isn’t Going to End Well.
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Putting It All On The Table
A new book from Erica Abrams Locklear explores what “mountain food” and people really means.
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A Murder, a Medical Mystery, and the Long Fight For Justice
The Other Dr. Gilmer revisits a gruesome 2004 murder with a shocking twist on the true crime genre.
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The Work Of Art
A new book celebrates the visual mediums of North Carolina, as well as the state’s investment in supporting the arts.
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Secrets in a Small Town
De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s new novel, Decent People, blends murder and cultural conflicts in the fictional town of West Mills, North Carolina.
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How Carolina Basketball Won Me Back
A new book, Together, tells the story of a team everybody counted out, and how they turned it around.
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The War After This One
David Wright Faladé tells the story of a Black brigade attempting to weed out vestiges of the Confederacy.