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"It's Always Been Words and Me"

An Interview with Sallie Bissell

by Robert L. Hall

The North Carolina mountains lend themselves to intrigue.  I can just look at the mountains and envision all sorts of things being possible.  They are a fictional gold mine, so to speak.  I guess I see them from a different perspective, being a Nashville flatlander—there, they don’t have particularly high mountains, some hills. 

Celebrating Our Culture

As Easy as a Mississippi Day

An Interview with Short Story Author John Floyd

by Elaine August

I think the biggest influence the South has had on my writing is that I've been listening to its stories all my life--stories told by family, friends, neighbors, even strangers passing through. When I was a kid I'd visit an elderly lady we called Aunt Betty (though she wasn't related to us at all) and listen for hours to tales so fascinating I remember them to this day. Almost everyone we knew told stories. And there's something special about those you hear while sitting in a porch swing, or on a pond bank, or beside your granddad's fireplace on a winter night.

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