Description: In the 24th volume of this distinguished anthology, Bell chooses 21 distinctive pieces of short fiction to tell the story of the South as it is now. This collection includes stories by Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Spencer, and Jill McCorkle alongside those writers just making their debuts.
Brief description:
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels and two short story collections. All Souls' Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. He has written essays and reviews for Harper's, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, and many other publications.