On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill is a sunken courtyard known affectionately as “The Pit.” A public ampitheatre of sorts, The Pit is used for impromptu performances, speeches, and more. Student organizations post notices on The Cube nearby. “Legend has it that you will see all of Carolina’s 30,000 students pass through The Pit within […]
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Dr. James W. Clark, Jr., Award Ceremony Thursday
Monday, October 26, 2020
On Thursday, October 29, at 4:00 pm EDT, the North Carolina Humanities Council will honor NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee Dr. James W. Clark, Jr., with the 2020 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities. The ceremony will be held online. The celebration includes a special address from Christie Hinson Norris, Director of Carolina […]
UNC-CH Professor Awarded MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
We’re late to the party, but just in case you are too: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science and Senior Faculty Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life has received a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship for “shaping discourse on highly topical issues […]
RIP Daphne Athas
Friday, July 31, 2020
Daphne Athas passed away this week. An award-winning writer who taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for forty years, Daphne was a beloved member of the community. She was 97. She published her debut novel, The Weather of the Heart, in 1947. Her 1971 novel Entering Ephesus was named to Time’s […]
UNC Building to be Renamed after Pauli Murray
Monday, July 13, 2020
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced late last week that they would rename Hamilton Hall in honor of Durham native Pauli Murray. UNC-Chapel Hill is in the process of renaming several campus buildings with “racially unjust” names. In 1938, Pauli Murray, an inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, applied […]
Nearing 70, The Carolina Quarterly Ages Gracefully
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Not a lot of literary magazines—or many endeavors, really—can trace their roots back to before the Civil War. But The Carolina Quarterly, published at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, can point to the year 1844 as the founding of North Carolina University Magazine which, through several iterations during America’s highs and lows, […]
Kenan Theatre Company Mounts Paul Green Play
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The Kenan Theatre Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the musical comedy Johnny Johnston November 20-24. The book was written by North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Paul Green with music by Kurt Weil. Johnny Johnston is based on Jaroslav Hasek’s satiric novel The Good Soldier Švejk, and […]
Moore, Shapiro to Receive North Carolina Awards for Literature
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Lenard D. Moore—poet, essayist, writer, and playwright, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Mount Olive—has been awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature. Created by the General Assembly in 1961, the North Carolina Awards have been presented annually since 1964. The award recognizes significant contributions to the state and nation in the […]
New Walker Percy e-Books, Video
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Open Road Integrated Media recently released several of acclaimed author Walker Percy’s novels as e-books. This NYC-based publishing compnay also sat down with Walter Isaacson and Paul Elie to produce a short video about Walker Percy’s life and works (see video above). “Percy was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century […]