Southern novelists and short story writers Lisa Alther and Lee Smith investigate questions of their genre, such as the major literary and social preoccupations of fiction in the modern American South. How do novelists use their experience, literary and personal? To what degree does current southern fiction reflect the region as a peculiarity of American life?
At the time of this discussion, Alther was an independent writer. Smith was professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
