21. Discovering the Literary South:

       the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Series

As novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, and publisher, no single figure has done more to “discover” the literary South than Louis Rubin. So it is appropriate to name this series in his honor. The books in this series were published within the last twenty years by writers who have moved beyond the Southern hometowns of their youth. Yet they take a long look back, not for nostalgia’s sake, but to bear witness to the full panoply of time’s interactions with place, memory, and family.

• Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage, Robert Morgan
• A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
• The Jew Store, Stella Suberman
• Clover, Dori Sanders
• The Coal Tattoo, Silas House