Mystery & Manners

Published in 1969 (posthumously), this bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American

literature.


This collection includes:

* The King of the Birds

* The Fiction Writer & His Country

* Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

* The Regional Writer

* The Nature and Aim of Fiction

* Writing Short Stories

* On Her Own Work

* The Teaching of Literature

* Total Effect and the Eighth Grade

* The Church and the Fiction Writer

* Novelist and Believer

* Catholic Novelists and Their Readers

* The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South

* Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann