The title of Jill McCorkle’s latest book, a short story collection called Old Crimes, hints at dramatic secrets. Some of the regrets embedded in those secrets are painful: In “The Lineman,” the second ...

I am a lineman for the county. It’s true and there was a time when Pam laughed when I said that but now she just smirks and turns away; now she monitors the time I spend with Amanda and counts the ...

Some writers’ reputations accrete over years to the point of preceding them, like a friendly force field. Jill McCorkle may be one such author. Called “a bard of Southern fiction” by O, The Oprah ...

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 intimate ...

The title story, which opens the book, conveys an unsettling mood of bewilderment and regret that marks much of the collection. In the summer of 1999, a pair of college students, Lynn and her ...

Legendary NC authors Jill McCorkle and Michael Parker will be in conversation at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest on Sunday, February 2nd. The event will begin at 2pm.

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 ...

Finishing “The Portrait of a Lady” leaves the author of “Old Crimes,” a new story collection, “a little more confident.” Meanwhile, Rod Serling has a place on her shelves. Credit...Rebecca Clarke ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Kansas City, Mo., for the American Booksellers Association's eighth Winter Institute. It's a lot of fun, not least because you get to spend time with like-minded people ...

Pick the least likely place to start life over, and that’s where a Jill McCorkle story begins. She has always had an eye for those moments when to go forward means to take a leap into the unknown, and ...

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. I am a lineman for the county.