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… said, “critically explore Southern identity, marginalized communities, and the history of place”—big ideas that feel … when you start meeting people on the road. The state becomes increasingly intimate and hard to define, starting … has stood at the nexus of American identity.” But there are also the things that only some of us know, and those truths …

… know that he knew before he discovered it in the act of composition. Writing for him, as for others, was a lifelong … had for him as well as of his fame. She was deeply selfcentered, demanding always to be the focus of attention. … dared to dream during the hard days with Cinina. When she died, she was buried so deep in his memory that he was able …

… The Drama: Can It Be Taught The Drama has of late years become, I will not say popular, for it was always that, but a … dubious compliment. We feel we are being put in a somewhat false position. For after all the actor and the playwright … are spoken, the actions taken. True, the drama may be studied in books, but not so well. A month of seeing the great …

… what he could do best, his craft, his usefulness. But he also wrote, he said, to “make sense of my life.” The process … was the present, and it was a present he shared with his audience. No one else, as Joan Didion remarked in 1964, tells … present. His tone ranged from genial to satirical without becoming bitter. Then, in his dark period of the 1960’s, and …

… ill at the time, and that is why it took this form. She died on September 28 of the same year. The setting is … each of us was digging a hole with our hands but we were also half-digging with our toes and making what is called a … in North Florida. If you dig 12 or 14 inches you always come to very wet earth and sometimes even at six inches you …