If convention has it right, these are writers who bear something close to a genetic predisposition to produce a literature suffused with place."

This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.

Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.