... I guess whoever wrote this list never looked at a list of Southern
authors (#39) and I certainly know more Southerners who actually read
than I do uppity Yankee come-heres who do (although they certainly
brag more about which highbrow magazines they have subscriptions to).


Harry Krause wrote:
Why, I would take that as an insult to one of my favorites, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, but, truth be known, he was a much better storyteller than
writer.


Well this is not a slam against non-Southern writers. Just non-Southern
"readers."

Seriously, though, your point about Southern writers is spot-on. There
are so many good ones, including Shelby Foote, who we just recently
lost. The list of terrific Southern writers seems endless.

Endlessly varied, that's for sure. The one common characteristic they
seem to share is a lack of intellectual pretentiousness.

DSK

Why does southern culture seem so much more colorful than northern?
Somehow my yankee in-laws just seem dull. Somehow southern culture
just seems to give us more to write about than yankee culture. Take
Thanksgiving for example, I bet all you yanks are gonna have turkey.
We are gonna have fried mullet and hushpuppies, gumbo,collards, pecan
pie and are making the jewish in-laws (were a large southern redneck
Catholic family) bring the ham.

wrote:

Why does southern culture seem so much more colorful than northern?
Somehow my yankee in-laws just seem dull. Somehow southern culture
just seems to give us more to write about than yankee culture. Take
Thanksgiving for example, I bet all you yanks are gonna have turkey.
We are gonna have fried mullet and hushpuppies, gumbo,collards, pecan
pie and are making the jewish in-laws (were a large southern redneck
Catholic family) bring the ham.


I love it!

BTW where's the sweet potato pie??!?

DSK