"While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.  The Southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God." 

--Flannery O'Connor

THE CHRIST-HAUNTED LANDSCAPE: FAITH AND DOUBT IN
SOUTHERN FICTION
University Press of Mississippi

Original interviews, essays, and stories showing the imprint  of “old-time” religion on the artistic visions of twelve notable writers of the contemporary American South.

Larry Brown • Lee Smith  •  Clyde Edgerton
 Harry Crews  •  Will Campbell •  Randall Kenan
 Sandra Hollin Flowers • Sheila Bosworth
 Reynolds Price  •  Doris Betts 
Mary Ward Brown  •  Allan Gurganus

Here are Susan Ketchin’s discerning interviews with twelve southerners who are living and working in the South, a piece of fiction chosen by each, and Susan’s penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work.

Guided by O’Connor’s startling observation, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that unveils the pervasive role of religion in the literature of the recent generation of outstanding fiction writers. As in the works of William Faulkner, Walker Percy, Katherine Anne Porter, and other great Southern writers of the past, Ketchin confirms, “Old-time Religion” remains a potent force in the literature of the American South today.  The South still is, as Ketchin discovers, very much ‘Christ-haunted.’