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

[John Adams]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:47 PM, Carl Remick wrote:


> 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.

But it was Whitman's trip to New Orleans that changed him from Walter 
to Walt. The rest is history.

	John A