The New Regionalism

Bonnie Jo Campbell and Michael Zadoorian

by Keith Taylor

posted 6/9/2009

Once the word “regional” was used to dismiss writing that was firmly based in a particular place. There might have been good reason for condescension: some of the writing wasn’t of in-terest to anyone beyond a particular city or region. But in the new, diminished world of American publishing, books that never have had large audiences—collections of poetry and

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