Craft and Vision; the Best Fiction From the Sewanee Review

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For the 79 years of its existence, as editor Andrew Lytle gently boasts in his foreword, The Sewanee Review has been a bulwark of conservative literary values and, no less, of excellence within the bounds of the tradition it represents. This has proven more elastic in fact than may have seemed likely in principle under such dauntlessly anti-experimental editorships as Alan Tate's and Lytle's own: in addition to the magazine's Southern Agrarian stalwarts and sympathetic outlanders -- Eliot, Lowell -- it has found room for the likes of Berryman, John Hawkes, Ted Hughes, Marshall McLuhan. Regrettably, the poets and essayists are excluded from this collection; but the contributors of fiction include Caroline Gordon, Claude F. Koch, Robert Penn Warren, Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It's a sampling that does credit to the Review's patrician vision though the stress is decidedly on craft. And one still hopes for a companion volume of nonfiction.

Table of Contents
Sled / Thomas E. Adams
The marquis and the crocodile / Harry Brewster
The unattached smile / Harry Crews
A courtship / William Faulkner
Cloud nine / Caroline Gordon
The fugitives / Madison Jones
The wheel / Smith Kirkpatrick
A matter of family / Claude F. Koch
Something just for me / George Lanning
The guide / Andrew Lytle
Lula Borrow / Thomas Mabry
The lame shall enter first / Flannery O'Connor
By the waters / Charles Rose
Jujitsu / Eleanor Ross Taylor
The death of a kinsman / Peter Taylor
Statement of Ashby Wyndham / Robert Penn Warren
Moon Lake / Eudora Welty