Southern writing and the problem of the father - James Applewhite -- - Still southern after all these years - Jack Butler -- - Writing on the cusp: double alterity and minority discourse in Appalachia - Rodger Cunningham -- - Shape of Appalachian literature to come: an interview with Wil Hickson - Fred Chappell -- - Porch-sitting and southern poetry - Kate Daniels -- - Of canons and cultural wars: southern literature and literary scholarship after midcentury - Fred Hobson -- - And ladies of the club - Jim Wayne Miller -- - Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey - John Lowe -- - Discourse of southernness: or how we can know there will be such a thing as the South and southern literary culture in the twenty-first century - Jefferson Humphries -- - Autobiographical traditions black and white - James Olney -- - Speculations on a southern snipe - Dave Smith -- - Robert Olen Butler: a Pulitzer profile - Michael Sartisky -- - Rhetoric of southern humor - Stephen A. Smith
