Conversations with Dorothy Allison

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Conversations with Dorothy Allison Literary Conversations Series Peggy Whitman Prenshaw General Editor This page intentionally left blank Conversations with Dorothy Allison Edited by Mae Miller Claxton University Press of Mississippi Books by Dorothy Allison She Who. Penguin Group, forthcoming. Trash: A Collection of Short Stories. Plume, 2002. Cavedweller. Dutton, 1998. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. Dutton, 1995. Skin—Talking about Sex, Class & Literature. Firebrand Books, 1994. Bastard Out of Carolina. Dutton, 1992. The Women Who Hate Me, Poetry 1980–1990. Firebrand Books, 1991. Trash: Short Stories. Firebrand Books, 1988. The Women Who Hate Me: Poems by Dorothy Allison. Long Haul Press, 1983. www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2012 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2012 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Allison, Dorothy. Conversations with Dorothy Allison / edited by Mae Miller Claxton. p. cm. — (Literary conversations series) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-61703-286-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-287-5 (ebook) 1. Allison, Dorothy—Interviews. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Interviews. 3. Feminists— United States—Interviews. 4. Lesbians—United States—Interviews. 5. Adult child sexual abuse victims—Interviews. 6. Lesbianism. 7. Feminism. 8. Working poor—Southern States. 9. Fiction—Authorship. 10. Autobiography in literature. I. Claxton, Mae Miller. II. Title. PS3551.L453Z46 2012 813’.54—dc23 2011033061 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ...