Jill McCorkle returns to short fiction with Old Crimes, a collection that explores some of the same themes of memory and loss as her most recent novels — Hieroglyphics (2020) and Life After Life ...

Author Jill McCorkle has published a collection of short stories about the secrets and small misdeeds that can stay with us forever. She speaks with host Lisa Mullins.

JILL McCORKLE: Relief of March Madness! Cheering teams not screaming in disbelief Saturday, April 6, 2024 -- What a relief to have this brief window of time when the NCAA Tournament brings ...

Jill McCorkle takes ordinary people, puts them in common situations, and makes extraordinary stories. She has done it again in her latest collection of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other ...

Click here for that audio. Author Jill McCorkle has published a collection of short stories called "Old Crimes and Other Stories" about the secrets and small misdeeds that can stay with us forever.

To call “Old Crimes: And Other Stories” a compilation of independent narratives is to diminish Jill McCorkle’s evocative statement on the interconnected nature of human suffering. These 12 ...

Jill McCorkle may be one such author. Called “a bard of Southern fiction” by O, The Oprah Magazine, McCorkle has figured as beloved on the literary scene for many years.

Old Crimes Jill McCorkle. Algonquin, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61620-973-5 ...

JILL MCCORKLE: Oh, thank you for that. I really wanted that effect of how every microcosm is similar in a lot of ways, that you could have a very similar experience in a different place and being ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jill McCorkle is a novelist and short story writer living in Hillsborough, N.C. Her most recent book is Old Crimes. She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and has taught most recently at ...

Jill McCorkle is a native of Lumberton, NC. She graduated from Lumberton High School in 1976, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and from the Hollins College Masters Program ...

Creatures of Habit, Jill McCorkle's third collection of stories, is what coming home should be but so seldom is -- comforting, clarifying and irresistible. This is not to say these are happy stories.