Wilton Barnhardt is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated and the author of Emma Who Saved My Life (1989), Gospel (1993), and Show World (1999), and most recently, Lookaway, Lookaway. He teaches fiction writing to undergraduate and graduate students at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing.
Wilton Barnhardt's brilliant, hilarious, outspoken introduction
gives us a good idea of the originality ahead in this eclectic
collection . . . Again and again we find the past and the present
nestled cheek to cheek, if not always dancing. --Lee Smith,
novelist
Many contributors to 27 View of Raleigh are natives of the Tar Heel
State, including novelist Wilton Barnhardt, who wrote the very
funny introduction to the volume. Some are transplants, such as
Elaine Orr, who hails from Georgia, and Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi,
who moved to Raleigh from Cameroon. Other contributors include
fiction writers Peggy Payne, June Spence and Bridgette Lacey; poets
Lenard D. Moore, Betty Adcock, Dorianne Laux, David Rigsbee, and
Tom Hawkins; journalists Grayson Currin and Amanda Lamb; and
children s book authors Eleanora Tate and Kelly Starling Lyons.
Personal reminiscences of Raleigh are among the most compelling
pieces. Jimmy Creech recounts his participation, as a local pastor,
in Raleigh s 1988 Gay Pride Parade. Tina Haver Currin recalls her
first visit to Raleigh as a child to spend a fraught Christmas with
her father and stepmother. Tracie Fellers pays homage to her Aunt
Bunny, who sewed the dress she wore to the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Debutante Ball. Rob Christensen s history of the Sir Walter Hotel
provides insight into how politics were conducted once upon a time
in Raleigh. --NC Library Association
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