The Carolina English professor talks about failure, the value of walking and the origin of his life-changing “napkin doodles.”

Florence Dore has a new album and a new book out this fall. She’s been touring the country singing and talking about one of her favorite topics: the intersection of literature and rock ’n’ roll.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book is “Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan.” The department of English and comparative literature will host an event Sept. 11 celebrating the book.

From dancing to singing to 3D printing, our students tap into their creative side to explore the world around them.

Winter graduate Elliot Carey found his true passion for social work by serving his local community through volunteering with the North Carolina Guardian ad Litem program. Learn more about this Carolina senior and read one of his poems.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book: “North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky” (UNC Press) by Bland Simpson.

Luisa Peñaflor, a first-year creative writing major from Simpsonville, South Carolina, is the 2021 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship recipient. We spoke with Peñaflor about her creative writing background and her first-year experience as a Thomas Wolfe Scholar.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book: “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” by Gabriel Bump, assistant professor of creative writing.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book: “Bewilderness” (Catapult, June 2021), a debut novel by Karen Tucker.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni, published on the first Friday of each month. This month we feature the late Randall Kenan’s “If I Had Two Wings: Stories.”