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Guest editor Amy Hempel admits, \"I've always had an affinity for writers from the South,\" and in her choices, she's identified the most inventive, heartbreaking, and chilling stories being written by Southerners all across the country.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the famous (Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower, Padgett Powell, Dorothy Allison, Brad Watson) to the finest new talents, Amy Hempel has selected twenty-five of the best, most arresting stories of the past year. 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This is a South that is still recognizable but no longer predictable. As he says, \"to the traditional black and white recipe (ever a tricky and volatile mixture) have been added new shades and strains from Asia and Central and South America and just about everywhere else on the shrinking globe.\" Just as Katrina brought out into the open all the voices of New Orleans, so the South is now many things, both a distinctive region and a place of rootlessness. 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As Lee Smith writes in her engaging and provocative preface, the South is both as it always was and profoundly different. Some things have stayed the same: \"As a whole, we Southerners are still religious, and we are still violent. We'll bring you a casserole, but we'll kill you, too.\" And some things have changed: many a Southerner spends more time in the mall than the kitchen, and many a Southerner is really a displaced Northerner. Still, there's something about life below the \u003cp\u003eMason-Dixon line that leads to evocative, hilarious, moving, authentic, rip-your-heart-out stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaybe it's true, as Lee Smith says, that \"narrative is as necessary to us as air.\" Maybe narrative is in the air. 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