[lbo-talk] Wish I Was In Dixie (Re: The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth)

[Joseph Catron]

What, exactly, has the cultural dung heap of Long Island produced to
compare with William Faulkner, or even Tennessee Williams?

On Nov 18, 2007 11:49 PM, Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:


> I am unaware of white Southerners
> making any direct positive cultural contributions at all with the
> possible exception of pecan pie.  As for white Southern writers, you
> can have them.  Offhand the only Southern novelist I can think of
> (besides Mark Twain, who cleared out of the region pronto) who wasn't
> a Gothic bore or morbid eccentric was Walker Percy, and he thought the
> South was pretty much a waste of space himself.