Robertson, Ben (General Editor), Stephen Cooper, Kirk Curnutt, Albert Glover, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Richard Scott Nokes, and William Thompson, eds. Themes of Conflict in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature of the American South: The Proceedings of the 2004 Conflict in Southern Writing Conference. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. Themes of Conflict is an edited collection of twenty essays and five interviews that deal with themes of conflict in literature of the American South. This book is an updated version of the 2006 proceedings volume (Conflict in Southern Writing) that resulted from the Conflict in Southern Writing Conference, held at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama, in September of 2004. This book includes an essay of mine on Red Hills and Cotton, a memoir written by South Carolina writer Ben Robertson (who's not related to me, as far as I know), and an interview I conducted with Betty Winston Bayé, a columnist and novelist who now lives in Kentucky. Also included is a brief introduction on which Richard Scott Nokes and I collaborated.