A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Zora Neal Hurston, Dave Barry, and other contributors.

"Features the voices ... of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward ... drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years"--Dust jacket flap. "The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the...

This book, a collection of eighteen critical essays on the works of Native-American writers, includes views of Lawrence J. Evers, Kathleen M. Sands, Elaine Jahner, Louis Owens, Kenneth Roemer, Arnold Krupat, Cecilia Sims, Janet St. Clair, Jeanne Rosier Smith, and others.