The range of these stories is as broad as the South itself. Included are Eudora Welty's classic piece about sibling rivalry, and John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning account in A Confederacy of Dunces; traditional stories of Southern good old boys and girls who are forever having head-on collisions with each other and with modernity -- like Harry Crews' characters, or like Lewis Grizzard's faith healer, or like Florence King's debutantes; the darker humor, born of an extraordinary ability to understand and accept human nature -- Flannery O'Connor, and Lisa Alther. These pieces range from work by some of America's best-known fiction writers through the best of the essayists who have brought Southern ways to the New Journalism. ISBN 0-931948-55-X : $12.95.