Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Contents

v Contents Introduction vii Chronology xvii Moving toward Truth: An Interview with Dorothy Allison 3 Carolyn Megan / 1993 Dorothy Allison, Crossover Blues 17 Blanche McCrary Boyd / 1993 Literary Heroine: Talking with Dorothy Allison 21 Owen Keehnen / 1994 Dorothy Allison 26 Minnie Bruce Pratt / 1995 An Interview with Dorothy Allison 40 Susanne Dietzel / 1995 “We’re as American as You Can Get”: Dorothy Allison 53 Michael Rowe / 1995 The Roseanne of Literature 70 Alexis Jetter / 1995 Dorothy Allison: A Family Redeemed 78 Susan Salter Reynolds / 1998 Dorothy Allison 83 Laura Miller / 1998 vi CONTENTS An Open Book 93 David L. Ulin / 1998 Dorothy Allison 98 Renée Klorman / 1998 Dorothy Allison 102 Robert Birnbaum / 2002 Writer Out of Carolina: Dorothy Allison 118 David A. Fryxell / 2003 Marina Lewis Talks with Dorothy Allison 122 Marina Lewis / 2006 Lessening the Damage: Interview with Dorothy Allison 141 Ellise Fuchs / 2006 An Interview with Dorothy Allison 150 Jordan Hartt / 2007 Interview with a Master: Dorothy Allison 154 Kendra Tuthill / 2009 Interview with Dorothy Allison 166 Rob Neufeld / 2009 Index 175 ...