Should America become adult enough to read Southern
literature, become wise enough to call out Southern mythology for the honeycomb
of prevarication that it is, and become intelligent enough to take the blood
pressure of the real thing in a Southern story ----- should that improbability
occur, America will value Larry Brown more than it currently does. It will
value the exercise of dealing with his South, my South, and our South.
Larry Brown is a natural part of my Mississippi mindscape,
that perplexing geography which has more talent per square inch than most of
the United States has per square mile.
Exaggeration has a purpose.