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

[Carl Remick]

On Nov 18, 2007 11:59 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> What, [Carl,] exactly, has the cultural dung heap of Long Island produced to
> compare with William Faulkner, or even Tennessee Williams?

I assume that you (mistakenly) offer Faulkner and Williams as
standards of excellence.  So off the top of my head I might cite Walt
Whitman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, P. G. Woodhouse and Peter Matthiessen as
among the good writers who have found L.I. a congenial place to work.

Carl