Introduction by Wilton Barnhardt

27 VIEWS of RALEIGH:  The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry is a hometown anthology, featuring the work of twenty-seven (plus two) Raleighites who create a literary montage of North Carolina's capital city in fiction, essays, and poetry. Novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and even a science fiction writer capture the city in a variety of genres—spanning neighborhoods, generations, cultural and racial experiences, historic eras—reflecting the social, historic, and creative fabric of Raleigh. As Wilton Barnhardt writes in the book's introduction, “We seem to have flourished not because we have solved all the problems of the New South, despite leading the way now and again, but because we the citizens of Raleigh decided to beerudite, cultured, enriched, and entertained . . ."

27 Views of Raleigh is the fifth book in Eno Publishers's 27 Views series that features the literary communities of contemporary Southern towns. The initial book was the award-winning 27 Views of Hillsborough, followed by books about Durham, Chapel Hill, and Asheville.

Contributors:

Betty Adcock | Wilton Barnhardt | Rob Christensen | Jimmy Creech | Grayson Haver Currin | Tina Haver Currin | Angela Davis-Gardner | G.D. Gearino | Hillary Hebert | Scott Huler | Traci Fellers | Tom Hawkins | John Kessel | Bridgette A. Lacy | Amanda Lamb | Dorianne   Laux | Dana Wynne Lindquist | Kelly Starling Lyons | Margaret Maron | Sheila Smith McKoy | Lenard D. Moore | Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi | Elaine   Neil   Orr | Peggy   Payne | David Rigsbee | Liza Roberts | June Spence | Eleanora E. Tate | Andrea Weigl

News & Observer review & excerpts, 22 Sept. 2013

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