Please double-space the entire review (including any long, indented quotations)
and submit it with two hard copies, or send it by electronic mail, preferably in
WordPerfect or Word. Also please include page numbers in parentheses after
each quoted passage. Begin your review with a heading that includes the
following information:

Title of the Book. Author's name.
(Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication)
$ price, paper or cloth. ISBN number, number of pages

Here are a couple of examples:

Casualties: Stories. By Ron Rash
(Beaufort, SC: Bench Press, 2000)
$14.95, paper. ISBN 09370769147, 151 pp.

Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains &
What the Mountains Did to the Movies. By J.W. Williamson
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
$18.95, paper. ISBN 0807845035, 325 pp.

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