Issue 20, Spring 1998

“I adore the praise of the public, no mistake. But the primary motive must be unpublic. Much more, I’d guess, the inner journey of the imagination itself. There is the ecstasy.” — Barry Hannah in “Why I Write”

Featuring Carson McCullers. Fiction by Jill McCorkle. Essays by Alan Jacobs and Barry Hannah on “Why I Write.” Poetry with Charles Wright. “Southern Dining” by John T. Edge.

Other contributors include Hal Crowther, Julia Reed, Roy Blount, Jr., P. Revess, Tom Piazza, and Randall Curb.