B I B L I O G R A P H Y
NOVELS
Kinflicks
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976.
- excerpts: Vogue, v.166, #2 (Feb., 1976).
- Cosmopolitan, v.181, #2 (Aug., 1976).
- New Dawn, v.2, #2 (July, 1977).
- Pulling Your Own Strings, ed. Gloria Kaufman and Mary Blakely, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
- The Best of Modern Humor, ed. Mordecai Richler, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
- A Southern Appalachian Reader, ed. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb, Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989
- Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Original Sins
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981.
- excerpt: Harpers and Queen, (June, 1981).
Bedrock
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990.
Five Minutes in Heaven
- Dutton, 1995
- excerpt: Lane Series Program, Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, 1995.
NON-FICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Kinfolks
- New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007.
About Women
- New York, Nan Talese Books, an imprint of Doubleday, 2015.
Meungeons On My Mind
- Presentation at 21st Melungeon Heritage Association Union 2017.
- Included in the September 2017 issue of VARDY VOICES, published by the Vardy Community Historical Society.
NON-FICTION
Blood Feud
"Introduction," Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2019
STORIES
"Encounter"- McCall's, v. 103, #11(Aug., 1976).
"Squeamish,"- CLAYMORE, v.1, #2 (Oct., 1977), p. 7-14.
"Termites"- Homewords, ed. Douglas Paschall and Alice Swanson,Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
"The Politics of Paradise"- Louder Than Words, ed. William Shore, New York: Random House, 1989.
"Silver Moon Bay"- By the Light of the Silvery Moon, ed. Ruth Petrie, London: Virago Press, 1994
"Stormy Weather"- THE BEST OF THE BEST, ed. Elaine Koster and Joseph Pittman (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998), pp. 1-24.
"Wedding Belles"- LONDON SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE, 1999, pp. 33-4.
"Eye of the Lord"- IRON MOUNTAIN REVIEW, v. 27 (Spring, 2001), pp. 6-7.
"Fox Hunt"- APPALACHIAN HERITAGE, v.32, #1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 13-22.
Stormy Weather & Other Stories
- Mercer University Press, 2012.
The Golden Tower: A Fairytale- Self-published, lisaalther.com, November 2016.
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Journal of the Short Story in English, #72, Autumn, 2019, pp. 337-342.
"Gus Be Gone"
- trans. Daniel Verheyde, TOMORROW'S WORLD, ed. Suzanne Bray and Gerald Preher, Lille, France: FLSH-Universite Catholique de Lille, 2022.
ARTICLES
- Vermont Freeman:
- "Autumn Mood"
- "Relevance in the Nursery"
- "The French Connection"
- "Dandelion Wine"
- "A Candy Recipe"
- "Things That Go Bump In The Night"
- "Sufism: A Book Review"
- "Ecology Fantasy"
- "Finding Your Rhythm"
- "Organic Farming on Trial"
Natural History, v.81, #9 (Nov., 1972)
- "Whole Food Cookery"
Yankee, v.37, #4(Apr., 1973)
- "Mail Order Religion"
New Society, v.27, #590 (Jan.24, 1974)
- "Vermont Coop Spins a Comeback for Wool"
New Englander, v.21, #5 (Sept., 1974)
- "The Snake Handlers"
New Society, v.34, #687 (Dec. 4, 1975)
- "The Melungeon Melting Pot"
New Society, v.36, #706 (Apr.15, 1976)
- "A Forest Full of Fiddleheads"
New Times, v.6, #10(May 14,1976)
- "They Shall Take Up Serpents"
New York Times Sunday Magazine, (June 6, 1976)
- "Into the Melting Pot"
Mankind, v.5, #9 (Oct., 1976)
- "Female Pen: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh"
The Guardian, (London: Feb. 23, 1978)
- "Biorhythmic Blues"
New Society, (Mar. 2, 1978), p.478
- "Joky Way to Wisdom"
New Society, (June 15, 1978), p, 610
- "Tales from All Over"
New York Times Book Review, (Oct. 21,1979), p.7
- "Will the South Rise Again?"
New York Times Book Review, (Dec. 16, 1979), p.7
- Introduction, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor
(London: The Women's Press, 1980.) --reprinted in Harpers and Queens (June, 1980)
- "Anna (I) Anna: A Novel by Klaus Rifbjerg"
Denmarkings: Danish Literature Today, (Copenhagen, l982)
- "The Writer and Her Critics"
The Women's Review of Books, (Oct., 1988), p.11
- "What I Do When I Write..."
The Women's Review of Books, (July, 1989), p.24
- "Dear Old House: Sarah Orne Jewett"
Art and Antiques, (December, 1991)
- "Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, by Francoise Gilot"
Pleiades, v. 1, no. 1 (winter, 1991)
- "Dixie in the Blood: SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE by Nancy Lemann"
Los Angeles Times Book Review, (July 19, 1992), p. 11
- "A Curator Leaves No Matisse Unturned"
New York Times, (September 13, 1992), p.49
- "Fame and Misfortune: FEATHER CROWNS by Bobbie Ann Mason"
Los Angeles Times Book Review, (October 24, 1993), p. 2
- "The Gods of Greece: A Review"
Los Angeles Times Book Review, (May 8, 1994), p. 6
- "Mating Dances: THE GOOD HUSBAND by Gail Godwin"
Boston Globe (August 28, 1994), p. 65
- "Another Kind of Victorian: SARAH ORNE JEWETT by Paula Blanchard"
New York Times Book Review (November 20,1994) p. 25
- "A Sly and Funny Take on the Tabloid Age: ISABEL'S BED by Elinor Lipman"
Boston Sunday Globe (March 5, 1995), p. 103
- "Struggling for Justice in a Savage Century: CHOICES by Mary Lee Settle"
Washington Post Book World (June 4, 1995), p. 8
- "An American Teacher Liberates Her Chinese Students: KATHERINE by Anchee Min"
San Francisco Chronicle (May 28, 1995)
- "Overlapping Stories in a Violent, Chaotic Time: THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Ellen Gilchrist"
San Francisco Chronicle (April 30, 1995), p. 3
- "One Hundred Years Ago or More: THE GOD IN FLIGHT by Laura Argiri"
Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review (Spring, 1995)
- "American Tragedies: WRONGFUL DEATH by Sandra Gilbert and DREAMING by Carolyn See"
Women's Review of Books (July, 1995), p. 18
- "A Deep Voice of Authenticity: WATER FROM THE WELL by Myra McLarey"
Washington Post Book World (Nov. 23, 1995)
- "Growing Up a Southern Writer"
Southern Living (April, 1996).
- "McCullers' Columbus",
TENNESSEE ENGLISH JOURNAL, v. 10 (Oct., 1999), pp. 6-9
- "Can the Novel Be Saved?"
USA TODAY, v. 129, #2668 (Jan., 2001), pp. 66-9
- "Allegiances," IRON MOUNTAIN REVIEW, v. 23 (Spring, 2007), p. 58
- "The Shadow Side of Appalachia: Mildred Haun’s Haunting Fiction", APPALACHIAN HERITAGE, v. 36, #2 (Spring, 2008), pp. 30-38
- “One Afternoon in Vermont,” Journal of the Short Story in English, #72, Spring, 2019
- “The Death of Glamour,” End of the World Review, July 3, 2020
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