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Omnivorous Reader | O.Henry Magazine

6 days ago | ohenrymag.com | Anne Blythe

If you’re one of those people who likes to walk on the beach and dream up scenarios for what might be happening in some of those homes looking out over the ocean, Kristie Woodson Harvey has a whale of a tale for you. In Beach House Rules, the Beaufort-based author takes readers inside a massive two-story oceanfront home enveloped by “the salt air and rhythmic shush of the waves” in fictional Juniper Shores, North Carolina.
Long Gone Avalon

6 days ago | ohenrymag.com | David Bailey

In 1977 while I was working at the Winston-Salem Journal as a cub reporter, Ola Maie Foushee sent a signed, self-published book to my dad: Avalon, a Pictorial and Sentimental Journey. The book joyfully heralded the happy, idyllic days of the now-abandoned mill town 2 miles from Mayodan. And there, on page 14 of the introduction, was my father: “Claude Bailey, a little boy next door, was my constant companion. We . . .
Life's Funny | O.Henry Magazine

1 month ago | ohenrymag.com | Maria Johnson

Tangerine, soul, gossip, smoke. It’s an odd foursome of words, but Nich Graham has invited me to bring prompts to our coffee-shop interview to spark the free verse that he pounds out on his old-school mechanical keyboard. It’s his schtick and his bliss. Back for the second year in a row, Nich will bring his Typewriter Poetry, a form of performance art, to the Greensboro Bound book festival this month. Clack-clack, clack-clack.
Birdwatch | O.Henry Magazine

1 month ago | ohenrymag.com | Susan Campbell

The great blue heron is a bird that will get anyone’s attention, bird lover or not. It is the largest of all the species found in the Piedmont and Sandhills and is second in wingspan only to the bald eagle. Also, the way it ever so slowly stalks its prey in the open is unique. Great blues are colonial nesters often gathering very close together in trees in wet environments where terrestrial predators are not a threat.
Birdwatch | O.Henry Magazine

Mar 2, 2025 | ohenrymag.com | Susan Campbell

Eastern phoebes are small black-and-white birds that can be easily overlooked — if it wasn’t for their loud voices. Repeated “fee-bee, fee-bee” calls can be heard around wet areas all over our state. The farther west one travels through the Piedmont and into the foothills of North Carolina, calling males become more and more evident. From March through June, males declare their territory from elevated perches adjacent to ponds and streams.
NC Surround Around | O.Henry Magazine

Mar 2, 2025 | ohenrymag.com | Tom Maxwell

It all started in April 2005, at the first “Black Banjo: Then and Now Gathering.” The event, held at Appalachian State University in Boone, was part scholarly pursuit and part throwdown, featuring four days of “lectures, jams, workshops, down home frolics, and performances” with a view to bringing the “funky, plunky instrument” back home to Black America. Dom Flemons, a 23-year-old student at Northern Arizona University, attended. “I was the young person at the event,” Flemons says.
Life's Funny | O.Henry Magazine

Mar 2, 2025 | ohenrymag.com | Maria Johnson

Fourteen neighbors? A couple of dozen cupcakes? A Friday afternoon? Sure, I tell my mom, I’ll help her throw a small celebration of her 92nd birthday, a custom in her neighborhood, where the residents let each other off the hook by proactively reminding each other of the occasion and hosting their own to-dos. It’s yet another example of something that’s gauche at a young age morphing into something that’s graceful, for all concerned, at a later age. We draw up a guest list.
Life's Funny | O.Henry Magazine

Feb 4, 2025 | ohenrymag.com | Maria Johnson

I was so delighted by the earrings — a pair of verdigris dogs with copper ears as bright as new pennies — that I had to try them on right then and there, in the backseat of my husband’s car.My older son’s partner, Tina, had just surprised me with them, following a family ramble through a row of seaside gift shops. She and I have a custom of giving each other earrings, and she’d clearly hit a home run with the canines she’d just sniffed out.
Omnivorous Reader | O.Henry Magazine

Dec 2, 2024 | ohenrymag.com | Anne Blythe

The story about the making of The Fetishist, Katherine Min’s posthumously published novel, is almost as interesting as the book itself. It has been touted as a novel ahead of its time — a comic, yet sincere, tender and occasionally befuddling exploration of sexual and racial politics.
Birdwatch | O.Henry Magazine

Nov 1, 2024 | ohenrymag.com | Susan Campbell

As the temperature and leaves drop, many birds return to their wintering haunts here in the Piedmont of North Carolina. After spending the breeding season up north, seedeaters such as finches and sparrows reappear in gardens across the area. But we have several species that are easily overlooked due to their cryptic coloration and secretive behavior. One of these is the hermit thrush. As its name implies, it tends to be solitary most of the year and also tends to lurk in the undergrowth.