This is just one of those books that is larger than the space it occupies and digs deep to figure out the ways in which the world functions. It’s a book that has loomed large over my reading education in a lot of ways, and growing up in Virginia (but namely the South) it’s one of those books that clearly punctuates Southern literary life. The other authors on that list are Poe and Faulkner and Mark Twain (kind of) and Kate Chopin and Zora Neale […]