Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers

by John C. Carr

Book Overview

Interviews with:

Doris Betts
Fred Chappell
Shelby Foote
Jesse Hill Ford
George Garrett
Larry L. King
Marion Montgomery
Willie Morris
Guy Owen
Walker Percy
Reynolds Price
James Whitehead

What does it mean to be a Southern writer in the 1970s? What is the nature of today's South and what prospects does it offer a writer?

These twelve interviews with writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125237
• ISBN13: 9780807125236
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"