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South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature

by Margaret Eby
Norton. Sept. 2015. 224p. maps. notes. ISBN 9780393241112. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393248265. LIT
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Eby, who has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, and who is originally from Birmingham, AL, has turned her love for Southern literature and the artifacts in the homes of Southern writers into a travelog of the places Southern writers lived and worked. The author visits William Faulkner's liquor cabinet and comments on Eudora Welty's mass of papers and love for gardening, Harper Lee and Truman Capote's courtrooms, and other areas that sparked the author's imagination or offered a quiet place to meditate. The resulting book is a gentle reminder of the many styles of writing labeled as "Southern."
VERDICT Eby's collection provides a fine introduction to writers and their homes and will be appreciated by readers of older literature (the book ends with Barry Hannah and Larry Brown).
Reviewed by Pam Kingsbury, Univ. of North Alabama, Florence , Jun 01, 2015
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