“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.