Part memoir, part literary history, Scribblers provides a humorous look at the world of wannabe authors while documenting the surprisingly rich literary tradition of the area around Asheville, North Carolina. In this book, Stephen Kirk, whose self-deprecating humor is reminiscent of a Woody Allen-like character, discusses this tradition while describing his own writing experiences. Intertwined with Kirk"s descriptions of his frustrations as his research misfires or leads to dead ends are insights about writing gleaned from interviews with such contemporary authors as Gail Godwin, Robert Morgan, Fred Chappell, and Sharyn McCrumb as well as insights into the lives of such famous authors as Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and O. Henry, who lived and wrote in the area.