Writer DOROTHY ALLISON

2: Writer DOROTHY ALLISON. Her novel "Bastard Out of Carolina" has been adapted to a new movie that will be shown on the Showtime cable channel this weekend. The 1992 novel is about a poor South Carolina family's violence and incest, and it's largely autobiographical. She says that she doesn't like most abuse literature out today because it tends to eroticize abuse. Allison has also written a book of short stories called "Trash" and a book of poems called "The Women Who Hate Me." The idea for her novel came from a poem in "The Women Who Hate Me," called "To The Bone." ("Bastard" is published by Dutton.) This interview originally aired 9/9/92.