As with everything else she wrote, there isn’t enough of it. This short collection of essays covers a variety of topics mostly about writing, religion, The South, but also, and delightfully, peafowl. Here’s a great snippet: “Over the years their attitude toward me has not grown more generous. If I appear with food, they condescend, when no other way can be found, to eat it from my hand; if I appear without food, I am just another object. If I refer to them as ‘my’ […]