Susan Ketchin :: Study and Commentary on Southern Culture

Masthead - Other Writing by Susan Ketchin

ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS | EDITING

Photo:

Masthead: Southern Exposure Magazine Cover

At right:
Baptism, Reverend
Tom Meek, Stamps Lake,
1989, photo by
Tom Rankin, from
Sacred Space:
Photographs from the
Mississippi Delta.

Essays/Interviews:

“Calling on Heroes in Times of Struggle: A Tribute to Eudora Welty,” Guest column, Chapel Hill Newspaper, September 30, 2001.

“Religion in Southern Literature.” in Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Lucinda MacKethan and Joseph Flora (LSU Press, 2000).

"Interview With Harry Crews,"rpt. Getting Naked With Harry Crews. Ed. Erik Bledsoe. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999: 295 - 308.

“Eudora Welty: The Music of Her Childhood,” Southern Review, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Autumn 1997), pp. 815-826.

“An Interview with Larry Brown,” Southern Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 95-109.

“When I’m Fog on a Coffin Lid: An Interview with Allan Gurganus,” Southern Review, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Autumn 1993), pp. 645-662.

“Narrative Hunger and Silent Witness: An Interview with Reynolds Price,”Georgia Review, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 1993), pp. 522-542.

Cover Section: "The Golden Child by Reynolds Price, Short Stories and Tall Tales by Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus,"Southern Exposure, Vol. XIX, No. 1 (Spring 1991), edited with an introduction by Susan Ketchin.

Review, Good News From Outer Space by John Kessel, Spectator Magazine (October 18-25, 1990).

"The Spirituality of Wooden Boats," The Communicant, Vol. 78, No. 4 (June/July 1987), p. 6. (Rpt. in Main Events: Agnes Scott College Alumnae Quarterly, Series 84, No. 3 (Fall 1987).

“Teachers in Role Conflict: The Hidden Dilemma,” Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 59, No. 2 (October 1977), pp. 120-122.(Rpt. in Education Digest, Vol. 43 (December 1977), pp. 17-19.) (Also rpt. in Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education, ed. Kevin Ryan and James M. Cooper, 3rd through 7th editions [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980-1995].)

Other features and reviews in The Charlotte Observer, The Western Wake Herald, and The Spectator.

In Progress:

A book about southern music and literature, including interviews with Eudora Welty, Charles Frazier, Lee Smith, and Lewis Nordan, is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi.

Editing:

Fiction Editor, Fiction Series, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS, 1997-1998.

Fiction Editor, DoubleTake Magazine, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1994-1996.

Awards for stories include selections and citations in Best American Short Stories ('96,'97), Pushcart Prize ('97, '98), O'Henry Awards ('97)

Fiction Editor, Southern Exposure Magazine, Institute for Southern Studies. Durham, NC, 1988-1994.

Citations/awards for stories in Best American Short Stories 1994, Flannery O'Connor Award Collection, 1995; National Magazine Award for Overall Excellence, '94.

Editor, Renascence Literary Services, 1978 to present

Associate Editor, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1987-1989

Editor, St. Andrews Review, Adjunct Associate Professor, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC, 1985-1988.

Susan with Eudora Welty

Awards: selections and citations in Best American Short Stories,'89 New Stories From the South; C.A.S.E.Communications Special Merit Award for Magazine Design (1988).

Selected Books Edited:

Memory's Tailor, a novel by Lawrence Rudner. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

The Blue Valleys: A Collection of Stories by Robert Morgan. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1989.

Learning to Fly by Peter Liotta. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989.