“In the South, we digress, we festoon our sentences with subordinate clauses, flashbacks, qualifications, and semicolons galore, traveling down remote-yet-beautiful, twisting, dirt tracks scorned by more minimalist sensibilities.” — Diane Roberts, “Writing on Writing”

Features by Wendell Berry, Jack Pendarvis, Barb Johnson, and Alex Taylor. “Writing on Writing” by Diane Roberts, Rick Bragg, Maud Casey, Christina Enriquez and Moira Crone.

Other contributors include Bronwen Dickey, John Gould Fletcher, Anne Trubek, Jamie Quatro, Michael Griffith, and more.