Conversations with Dorothy Allison by Mae Miller Claxton

Interviews spanning almost two decades with Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, known with Larry Brown and Lee Smith as a voice of the working-class contemporary South. Allison speaks about poverty, working-class life, domestic violence, feminism, women's relationships, the South and lesbian life, revealing both the performer and the careful craftsperson, and offering her own perspective on her life, writing and public role.